Webinar 1: Landscape connectivity from a wildlife biologist’s perspective

Landscape connectivity from a wildlife biologist’s perspective

Date: January 18, 2024 at 12 pm PT / 1 pm MT

Presenter:  Dr. Michael Proctor, TransBorder Grizzly Bear Project, Kootenay Connect, IUCN Species Survival Commission

There is a global movement to recognize and conserve ecological corridors throughout the world. Connected ecosystems enhance biodiversity and increase landscape resilience to climate change. This talk explores a success story of how re-establishing and managing connectivity for grizzly bears in the trans-border region of the Creston Valley evolved into a larger initiative to create a regional network of corridors connecting valley bottoms to uplands, biodiversity hotspots, protected areas, and climate refugia benefiting wildlife and human communities in the Kootenay region. Michael will relate the local to the global while providing examples along the way including western toads, northern leopard frogs, badgers, elk, wolverines and more.