{"id":50569,"date":"2018-04-17T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50569"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:06:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:06:25","slug":"brock-and-niagara-parks-to-sign-mou-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/brock-and-niagara-parks-to-sign-mou-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock and Niagara Parks to sign MOU Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University\u2019s history of collaboration with the Niagara Parks Commission will add another chapter this Friday (April 20) when officials sign a Memorandum of Understanding designed to support the stewardship and conservation practices of both organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement aims to benefit both Brock\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/esrc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environmental Sustainability Research Centre<\/a>, which advances environmental sustainability through excellence in research and education, and the important stewardship programs that Niagara Parks undertakes.<\/p>\n<p>A signing ceremony will be held during a public Commission meeting at 10 a.m. in the Niagara Parks School of Horticulture in Niagara Falls. More details on the MOU will be released following Friday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>A self-financed agency of the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagaraparks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niagara Parks <\/a>is entrusted to preserve and protect the land surrounding Niagara Falls and the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership comes on the heels of the ESRC <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/03\/brock-unveils-new-environmental-sustainability-research-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiling its new home<\/a> in the renovated Theal House on Brock\u2019s campus. A grand opening was held Feb. 28 for the revamped space, which is now a focal point for the University\u2019s sustainability efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University\u2019s history of collaboration with the Niagara Parks Commission will add another chapter this Friday (April 20) when officials sign a Memorandum of Understanding designed to support the stewardship and conservation practices of both organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,4,38],"tags":[703,296,6526,6527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70020,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50569\/revisions\/70020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}