Big, Bold, and Boreal: Protecting the largest private conservation project in Canada’s history with the Nature Conservancy of Canada

Monday, March 27 @ 7:30 pm

Join Kristyn Ferguson from the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) as she discusses the wild ride of conserving the largest conservation project in Canada’s history, the Boreal Wildlands, near Hearst, ON. Learn more about NCC, NCC’s Large Landscapes work in Ontario, and the intensive efforts that are currently underway to protect and conserve 30% of Canada’s lands and waters by 2030.

This will be a hybrid meeting and you can choose to attend either in-person or via Zoom.

To attend via Zoom, register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrde2hqT8sHNHf9Swpba-egnTpym3jZnC6

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Kristyn Ferguson is the Program Director of Large Landscapes in Ontario at the Nature Conservancy of Canada, where she has worked in a variety of roles since 2007. Kristyn obtained her B.Sc. in environmental biology from the University of Guelph and an MES in restoration ecology from the University of Waterloo. At work, Kristyn is passionate about finding creative ways to protect land, working with a variety of partners across sectors, and finding “win-win” solutions for nature and people. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, birding, stand-up paddleboarding, and adventure travel. She lives in Guelph with her husband, Jeff, their rescue dog, Bailey.