Empowering communities, protecting ecosystems
Empowering communities, protecting ecosystems
Developed in partnership with the Coastal Stewardship Network (CFN), this new resource is an update to our 2011 Guide, which is used as a training tool for Guardians and in the field while they monitor and protect their territories. This version updates…
Prepared for Veins of Life Watershed Society, this memo explores solutions to the environmental problems caused by privately owned residential docks in the waters of the Greater Victoria area.
Prepared for Community Development Forum, Halfmoon Bay, in collaboration with the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association, Green Bylaws for the Sunshine Coast provides an overview of the green bylaws approach and sets out five recommendations to help protect sensitive ecosystems while…
Prepared on behalf of Watershed Watch Salmon Society (WWSS), A Citizen’s and Lawyer’s Guide to Private Prosecutions in British Columbia empowers citizens interested in protecting and defending the environment.
Prepared for member and former chief of the Xatśūll Nation Bev Sellars, who initiated this work as part of a larger Indigenous-led initiative to protect the Fraser River. REPORT SUMMARY: Review of Permitted Effluent Discharge into the Fraser River Watershed…
As we take an end-of-fiscal-year deep breath, we’re also taking a moment to reflect. If we had to choose a theme for this past year, it would have to be transition. Along with our usual activities of teaching students and helping…
Prepared for Northern Confluence Initiative, this report documents how BC’s mineral compensation regime is a barrier to meeting biodiversity protection and Indigenous reconciliation commitments and obligations and sets out a series of principles and approaches for reform.
Report prepared for Surfrider Canada analyzing potential law reforms to protect oceans and waterways from cigarette butt pollution.
A report prepared on behalf of Bev Sellars, President of Moccasin Footprint Society, outlining a range of approaches for whole-of-river protection initiatives.
Two submissions regarding the management of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) prepared on behalf of World Economic Forum Global Shapers – Vancouver Branch: Federal Submission: Provincial Submission:
Submission prepared for Above Ground setting out the most feasible federal law reform recommendations for Canada to meet its commitments to end public financing for the international fossil fuel industry.
Submission prepared on behalf of Surfrider Foundation on the best ways to address abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear, which are a significant cause of marine plastic pollution and which have serious effects on marine life in oceans and…
