The Green Bylaws Toolkit highlights the importance of habitat connectivity when conserving biodiversity and that mapping is a useful tool to present connectivity. However, mapping connectivity can be challenging, therefore, we will hear about several different approaches that have been taken in western Canada.

• Danah Duke, Executive Director of the Miistakis Institute (Calgary) will talk about how they have used citizen science to support Local Governments interpret habitat connectivity for small amphibians to large mammals.
• Christopher Morgan (Master’s student at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)) will present a tool he developed with the Tsay Keh Dene Nation to help identify priority areas for conservation within their Territory, which takes into consideration habitat connectivity and their traditional ecological knowledge.
• Lynda Fyfe and Karin Albert will discuss how The Village of Cumberland mapped habitat connectivity in their 2014 OCP, and the subsequent challenge of implementing an Environmental Development Permit requirement within the mapped area.

To register, please email info@cdfcp.ca. Registered attendees will be emailed a ZOOM link for the webinar.