{"id":66437,"date":"2020-06-17T11:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=66437"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:04:40","slug":"brock-and-wwf-canada-partnership-to-address-freshwater-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/06\/brock-and-wwf-canada-partnership-to-address-freshwater-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock and WWF-Canada partnership to address freshwater challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) is set to launch a new partnership focused on freshwater resilience and stewardship.<\/p>\n<p>The University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) and will launch the partnership on Thursday, June 25 with a virtual panel discussion, <em>The Future of Freshwater<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Each organization is contributing specific skills and abilities to support freshwater resilience \u2014 first in the St. John River Basin and then, over time, across Canada. The collaboration represents a transdisciplinary approach to research and practice.<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WWFCanada-BrockPoster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-66438\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WWFCanada-BrockPoster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"548\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than half a century, WWF-Canada has worked to protect the future of nature and is the country&#8217;s largest international conservation organization. With 20 per cent of the world\u2019s freshwater supply in Canada, we have a global responsibility to keep our waters healthy. WWF-Canada is working towards a future where all Canadian waters are in good condition by building water-resilient communities, bringing big water data to decision-making tables, and creating a culture of water stewardship across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU solidifies a partnership between the two organizations, which have collaborated together on projects over the years. Both Brock University and WWF-Canada aim to address freshwater challenges and opportunities through a mix of academic and community-based approaches to resilience and stewardship, in order to make evidence-based decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong>: Brock University and WWF-Canada collaboration announcement and <em>The Future of Freshwater<\/em> panel discussion<\/p>\n<p><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, June 25 from 2 to 3 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.lifesizecloud.com\/extension\/137397\/f311e417-da89-4618-ab63-4f0eb52fa549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live on the Lifesize video conferencing platform here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) is set to launch a new partnership focused on freshwater resilience and stewardship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":66439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,188,55,41,1,5,38],"tags":[703,296,9126,9125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66437"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66441,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66437\/revisions\/66441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}