Land Trust Consultant – Thames Talbot Land Trust

We are at a pivotal time with great opportunity to make positive changes for our planet. The need is urgent as we face the dual crises of climate change and loss of biodiversity. Conserving natural heritage lands is one of the most effective ways to address climate change and provide habitat for some of Ontario’s and Canada’s rarest species. We are in a crucial moment with an opportunity to “build back better” while nature appreciation is top of mind and national and international commitments support nature conservation.
This project will support critical capacity growth for TTLT by identifying pathways to support growth through staff and volunteer increases and reorganization and addressing possible new streams of revenue such as carbon offsets. TTLT is committed to increasing land protection and care of lands but human resources are a limiting factor. The project will investigate current staffing and volunteer models, new distributed leadership models with volunteers and identify thresholds for investment in additional staff. As a land-based organization, TTLT has a unique opportunity to participate in new revenue streams through carbon offsets. These opportunities may be part of the research completed to evaluate long term sustainability of the organization.

Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Mensink

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Partner:

Thames Talbot Land Trust

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

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