Projects
Nature Conservation Training for Municipalities
An Exploration of Training for Municipal Leaders on Nature Conservation Tools and Policies
Themes
Nature and Local Governments
Tags
local government, conservation tools, facilitation and training, environmentally significant areas, workshop, knowledge mobilization
Project Summary
There is a significant gap in nature conservation training at the municipal level. Despite numerous training opportunities for municipal personnel on a variety of topics, there are few if any nature conservation training offers. The Corvus Centre worked with Skyline Partners Ltd. to explore the potential to deliver nature conservation training for municipal leaders delivered on a regular basis.
In Spring 2024, we circulated a survey to municipal leaders in Alberta regarding this perceived need, and potential approaches to fill it, including on-going, fee-for-service courses, available to staff in all Alberta municipalities.
Not all of Corvus' efforts are resounding successes, but we learn from all of them!
Despite the assistance of the Rural Municipalities of Alberta and Alberta Municipalities in distributing the survey, it received very little attention from municipal personnel. Further investigation indicated this was likely due to the number of provincial-level issues they were managing during the survey window, as well as limited appetite at senior levels to explore new applications of conservation tools.
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