TRU professor receives $100,000 grant for research into parks and climate resilience
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KAMLOOPS — A professor and researcher at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) received a $100,000 grant to explore the role of B.C.’s parks in climate resilience, reconciliation and Indigenous-led conservation.
Dr. Courtney Mason received the Blair Climate Change Research Initiative grant after an anonymous donor gave $100,000 to support a research endeavour focused on tackling the challenges of climate change.
In a news release issued Tuesday (Dec. 10), TRU says Mason’s two-year research project, ‘Parks as Climate Resilience, Reconciliation and Indigenous-led Conservation,’ will increase understanding of how parks can minimize risks to local ecosystems, foster socio-economic opportunities and manage climate-related environmental change.
“With federal, provincial and Indigenous governments currently working together to massively expand park systems throughout the country, protected areas led by Indigenous communities have now become a beacon of hope for natural climate solutions,” Mason says.
