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CONFERENCE RESOURCES: Two-Eyed Seeing and Ethical Space Training: Indigenous Climate Change Action

23/02/2024

Registration is closed! Below are resources for the conference: Pathway-Report-Final-EN IPCC_6th Assessment_Summary for Policymakers ICE_Report_2018_Mar_22_web Canada’s Conservation Vision_EN_June+5_ACC The Ethical Space of [...]

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Public Invited to Annual General Meeting on September 14, 2023

11/09/2023

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You can download the agenda here: NEBN AGM AGENDA September 2023 OPEN SESSION

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Greetings from the Niagara Escarpment

21/08/2023

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Aanii to all who enjoy the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere. To hike the trails within this region is eye-opening to the beauty nature provides for us. We get to stand along the edge of and see for miles in both directions. Some trails are [...]

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Partners in stewardship: The role of education in preserving and protecting Niagara’s Biosphere

20/08/2023

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As a hub for applied learning, research, and innovation in the region, Niagara College is a proud partner in the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network. Our Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake sits on 125 acres at the foot [...]

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Bioblitz of the full length of the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere underway with iNaturalist

19/08/2023

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The Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network (NEBN) has the responsibility to manage the Biosphere designation under the Man and Biosphere Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The [...]

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Youth Training on Georgian Bay

18/08/2023

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Today, I am sitting on the deck of a former fish processing plant, which is now our office, typing this story on my laptop while I hear belly laughs from the eight Indigenous youth and their canoe trip trainers who are sitting in the [...]

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The Field and Stream Rescue Team: Grassroots Action in the Hamilton-Halton Region

17/08/2023

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The Field and Stream Rescue Team is an environmental charity with a mission to revitalize urban areas by rehabilitating watercourses, forests, and natural areas through community education and hands-on activities. Serving the [...]

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Crawford Lake Becomes Indicator of Climate Change

16/08/2023

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An international panel of scientists announced that Crawford Lake, a small body of water located 50 kilometres west of Toronto, has emerged from among a dozen candidates around the world as the place that best records the dawn of the [...]

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Are we living in the Anthropocene? How does the Niagara Escarpment fit into the discourse?

15/08/2023

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In 2009, the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) commissioned a working group to investigate whether the “Anthropocene” had substance as a potential new epoch of geological time. The term was popularized by [...]

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UPDATE: Greenbelt Foundation Project Enhancing Biodiversity Awareness in the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere

14/08/2023

The Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network (NEBN) with its partners The Bruce Trail Conservancy, Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy, Royal Botanical Gardens, Niagara College,and Brock University are honored to work together to raise [...]

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