$1 million for forest research in New Brunswick

There is a new a forest research partnership at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) called the Collaborative Research Partnership for Sustainable Forest Management, or the Forest Collaborative for short.

The partnership will receive over $1 million over the next six years through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Community-University Research Alliances program grants.

The partnership will be lead by Donald Floyd, UNB's interim dean of the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management. Partners include:

• Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre


• Bird Studies Canada


• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society


• Fundy Model Forest


• Nature Conservancy of Canada


• Nature Trust of New Brunswick


• RESOLVE


• J.D. Irving Ltd.

The partnership began with an invitation from J.D. Irving Ltd. to representatives of environmental and conservation non-profit organizations and professors and researchers at UNB.

Projects for the partnership will fall under the following 3 themes:

• developing strategies for conserving important habitats and forest community types across private and public ownerships


• increasing forest sustainability (environmental, social and economic) in New Brunswick through improved communication, participation and transparency, and increasing FSC certified forest in New Brunswick


• developing broader and deeper collaborative leadership skills, knowledge, and practices with institutions in the forest sector in New Brunswick

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Groups get $1 million for forest research (The Daily Gleaner)