Tuesday Nov 5, 2019
Benson Room, Coast Bastion Hotel, 11 Bastion Street, Nanaimo, BC.
1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Workshop Overview
The
increasing list of species and ecosystems at risk is challenging the
capacity of professionals to find, process and interpret information to
build effective and professional environmental assessment reports.
Building on the Species at Risk workshops being delivered this spring by
other providers, the Association of Professional Biology is providing
training that addresses both the Species at Risk
Act and Migratory Birds Convention Act, with applied break-out sessions
on writing avoidance and mitigation statements. This workshop is
designed to fill the gap for professionals that work on environmental
impact assessment advice in support of development applications. It may
also be useful for junior professionals who want to strengthen their
skills in avoidance/mitigation design and understanding of legislation
and guidance for conserving migratory birds and species at risk.
Instructors
Chloe Boynton
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Chloe Boynton is a Migratory Bird Biologist with the Canadian
Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, in the Pacific
Region. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (honours) from Queen’s
University in 2013, and a Master of Science from Simon Fraser University
in 2017. Throughout her career she has worked with a variety of
migratory songbirds, from mapping territories of forest birds in Ontario
and nest searching for grassland birds in Alberta, to studying aerial
insectivores here in the Lower Mainland. She has worked with Environment
and Climate Change Canada in several capacities over the last 4 years,
including work with the funding programs, conducting research for the
Science and Technology branch and most recently focusing on migratory
birds and the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
Celina Willis
Conservation Project Development Officer
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Celina is a Conservation Project Development Officer with Canadian
Wildlife Service – Environment and Climate Change Canada in the Pacific
Region. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (honours) from Queen’s
University in 2013 and a Masters of Resource and Environmental
Management from Simon Fraser University in 2018. She has experience
working with migratory songbirds across Canada as well as working in
resource management with First Nations in British Columbia. She began
working with the Canadian Wildlife Service in 2017 and currently works
in Species at Risk Recovery where she focuses on consultation and
engagement on species at risk, including proposed species at risk
listing amendments and recovery documents. She previously worked in the
Regulatory Affairs Unit of Canadian Wildlife Service as a Treaty
Negotiation Analysist.