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Sustainable Development Goal 15

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Learn how UVic advanced SDG 15 during 2023

On this page you can get a glimpse of the great work done by the campus community to advance SDG 15 during 2023, centred around the key areas of the university:

Education & student experience
Research
Community & campus operations
Policy & policy-making
SDG 15 events

Education & student experience

Uvic's Cooperative Education and Careers program logo next to the United Nations Sustainable Development Wheel logo

SDG 15 in action at Co-op and Career

Co-op and Career Services offers placements locally and abroad, where students have the opportunity to work in projects that support conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.

 

Poster of an event with four individual photos of young females engaging with animals (goat, pigs, rooster), with the text: "A Deeper Kindness: Animal Law & Youth Activism. Directed by Maneesha Deckha, Professor and Lansdowne Chair in Law, University of Victoria. Watch it free on: animal-law-films.uvic.ca" ant the logos of the UVic's Faculty of Law and the Brooks Institute"

Animal law and youth activism

The Animals & Society Research Initiative at the Faculty of Law provides an open-access, scholarly documentary film series on Animal Law, surveying the current field of animal law and policy through the eyes of four youth advocates.

Text containing the legend: "Continuing Studies @ UVic"

Sustainable Agricultural Systems

The Urban Restoration and Sustainable Agricultural Systems course applies an ecological perspective into restoring urban areas and agriculture that promote sustainability and support biodiversity.

Ecological Restoration

The Ecological Restoration programs and courses designed for working professionals, offer a variety of options designed to advance knowledge and skills for restoring disturbed and degraded ecosystems.

Research

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FACULTY MEMBERS PUBLISHED ON SDG 15

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JOURNAL ARTICLES ON SDG 15

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CITATIONS OF SDG 15 RESEARCH

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Photo of Dr. Louie Lopez working in DNA lab at UVic

Indigenous -led biodiversity monitoring

Dr. Louie Lopez has been awarded a prestigious Liber Ero Post-Doctoral Fellowship to conduct Indigenous-led environmental DNA (eDNA) ecosystem monitoring with the Chipewyan Prairie Dene and Cold Lake First Nations.

Poster of the Bear project with a digital art of a bear walking on the forest, and the logos of the partners: "Heilsuk Integrated Resource Management Department, Wuikinuxv First Nation, Hakai Science on the Coastal Margin, and Rain Coast Applied Conservation Lab"

Wildlife species conservation

Drs. Chris Darimont and Ishana Shukla study the impact of humans and large carnivores activity into the behavior and mortality of mesocarnivores (coyotes, bobcats, wolves and cougars).

Photo of a small waterfall with sun rays passing through the rainforest

Biodiversity research

New research led by the Raincoast Conservation Research project shows that humans harvest over one third of all vertebrate species for medicine, collections, clothing and the pet trade.

Animals & Society Research Initiative

The Animals & Society Research Initiative provides an interdisciplinary research hub for all research that promotes critical thinking on interspecies relations, focused on how anthropocentrism and speciesism shape our societies and communities.

Community & campus operations

Picture of students bagging trees on Tl’ches (Chatham Island) during an ethnoecology field school offered in partnership with the Songhees Nation

Field schools on ecological resilience

UVic's environmental studies field schools are hands-on learning in diverse ecosystems, developing practical skills, interdisciplinary knowledge and community engagement for regenerative ecologies and social resilience.

Logo of the UVic Ecological Restoration Club, depicting a large sunflower, a fern, mushroom and other leaves, a flying bee and a looper tool

Ecological restoration club

The Ecological Restoration Club collaborates with the Campus Community Garden to build building capacities to restore ecosystems by engaging in regional stewardship initiatives.

Logo of the Living Lab as described by its author, Sarah Jim: "This image represents the interconnected nature of the land, water, culture, traditional ecological knowledge, and western science. The roots of the cedar represent not only the veins of life for the tree, but is a metaphor for a complex and diverse network of people that work within the Living Lab project. The paddles, clam shell, and midden indicate a rich history and connection to the ocean for Coast Salish people as the salt water is a means of transportation, livelihood, and sustenance through reef net fishing. The camas flower is a significant part of Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ life as well due to it being a rich food source and trade food. The way the crescents and trigons on the top physically connect to the land below is a signifier of the interconnectedness of art, culture, and land".

Living Lab

The Living Lab Project is a community-campus–schools project and network which supports eco-cultural restoration, land-based learning and Indigenous resurgence, implementing community-driven ecosystem and climate action projects

Applied Conservation Science Lab

The Raincoast Applied Conservation Science Lab supports social-ecological sustainability that considers nature and the people who rely on it, empowering evidence-based decision-making for environmental policy by all governments.

Policy & policy-making

Photo of one of UVic walking paths with trees, lamp posts and three students walking by

Campus Plan

The Campus Greenway Landscape Plan and Design Guidelines establishes guiding principles, big ideas and design guidelines that will serve to support and coordinate the implementation of landscape and public realm improvements along the length of the Greenway.

Stock picture of a "UVic Vikes" branded aluminum bottle being refilled at a drinking water fountain on campus

Water standards

UVic´s is committed to preserving the ecological diversity of the natural areas on its campus, embracing water guidelines and standards regulated by the university, the Capital Regional District and municipalities.

Photo of a female and male UVic staff members disposing waste into the large waste bins distributed on campus with colour signages for each type of waste

Plastic reduction

UVic is committed to ensure a sustainable cohabitation with local fauna in terrestrial ecosystems, by reducing plastic waste, the availability of plastic on campus and diverting waste from landfills.

Waste water

UVic protects the terrestrial lifeforms by implementing a hazardous waste management system, designed to deal with hazardous wastes on campus in an environmentally responsible manner.

Events