Watershed News in British Columbia: October Highlights
Water Monitoring in British Columbia: Scanning the Data Landscape
Annotation: A public report. Essential to effective monitoring are the words: collaboration and data standardization. Learn what is happening beyond Salt Spring Island – how can these projects and monitoring collaborations about freshwater in B.C. improve what we do to understand and better protect water close to home?
Habitat conservation critical to saving half of Canada’s song bird species from extinction
Annotation: According to a study released last week by the Boreal Songbird Initiative, vast sections of boreal forest are impacted so thoroughly in climate models that solutions-focussed researchers are lobbying for protection of songbird species at risk with rigorous and large-scale habitat protection – refugia areas capable of this type of protection for many bird species exist in several provinces, with large areas identified in B.C., Ontario and Quebec. The climate models don’t include losses from human disturbance and energy development.
Advancing Freshwater Protection: Tools and Opportunities in British Columbia’s Water Sustainability Act, by Oliver Brandes and Rosie Simms.
Annotation: POLIS Water Sustainability Project has released a brief, dated September 2018, to assist those who are seeking to address local water challenges. It identifies seven main tools for communities to investigate and apply, under the Water Sustainability Act.bA summary table of the seven tools, and what watershed problems they might help solve, is found on page 4 of this brief. It intends to be “part of a bundle of practical resources that the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and associated partners and developed to build community capacity and understanding…”