VIRTUAL
Join us to celebrate World Wetlands Day! The event will include a Distinguished Lecture from Dr. Rebecca Rooney on "Wetland loss when we know better" followed by a panel discussion.
Wetland ecologist and Professor of Biology Dr. Rebecca Rooney has studied peatlands and marshes across Canada for nearly two decades and knows well their gifts. What she finds perplexing is that despite overwhelming evidence of their importance for our health and prosperity, we continue to lose wetlands. Join us for World Wetlands Day as Dr. Rooney describes some of those gifts and poses a challenging question, "Why we are still losing wetlands and how do we stop?"
Panel Discussion - "How do we as a society protect our wetlands?" Panelists include:
• Mike Schreiner, MPP for Guelph, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and first Green MPP elected to the Ontario Legislature
• Natalia Moudrak, Director of Climate Resilience at the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation
• Brad Stephens, Senior Manager, Planning Ecology at Toronto Region Conservation Authority
• Chief Dave Mowat, Alderville First Nation
This program is presented in partnership with the University of Waterloo and is part of their 9th annual World Wetlands Day Research Symposium.
Registrants will receive an e-mail 24 hours before the start of the program with an invitation to join. The program will run from 7:00pm to 8:15pm.
Programmer: Christine