We’re always looking to work with like-minded individuals and organizations that share our mission. If you think we could benefit each other’s work through partnering on an event, research project, or advocacy action, let us know! Here’s a bit of what we’re working on now and what we’d love to do more on:
Our Research Interests
- Mainland moose population trends, public opinion on conservation management options, and connections between moose behaviour and the environment (particularly around habitat connectivity, forest composition, roads and settlement.)
- Methods for tracking moose in a warming climate (where a lack of snow cover prevents traditional tracking methods, how do other methods such as tagging, drone surveys, pellet counts, or scent detection dogs compare.)
- White-tailed deer population trends and migration tracking, the prevalence of brainworm in deer across the mainland, and differences in habitat use or other behaviours at high vs low elevations.
- Public opinion on deer management options.
- Wetland buffers for forestry- and housing-related developments: best practices in other jurisdictions, how to maintain functional habitat for breeding birds and moose, and incentives to encourage landowner adoption.
- Black bear population trends, seasonal habitat use, and interactions with humans.
- Best practices for fostering diversity and inclusion in conservation movements.
- Connections between social justice and environmental conservation.
Our Outreach & Engagement Priorities
- Fostering the development of natural history skills and environmental values: observation, identification, inquiry, stewardship, and reciprocity.
- Pairing the traditional observation-based discipline of natural history with newer inquiry- and experiment-based science.
- Growing the nature network to include more Nova Scotians, more women, more BIPOC Nova Scotians, more new Canadians, and more youth.
- Fostering meaningful diversification in the nature network, growing capacity for underserved communities to engage with nature the ways they want to, rather than prescribing a western natural history world view.
- Buffering polarization on nature topics by bridging gaps between communities and challenging false, overly-simplistic, or intentionally misleading narratives about our shared natural history.
Reach Out
Want to work together? Contact our board or staff.