Biodiversity
The human benefits of marine protected areas
Ethnobotany class revives plant on campus
A digital field guide for BC central coastal species
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Marine protected areas are well known for protecting biodiversity, but their effects on people who use the oceans are debated. Now a new review—led by University of Victoria marine
conservation scientist Natalie Ban and 12 co-authors—illustrates that these protected areas can also support human well-being.
Following in the footsteps of world-renowned ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, ethnobotany PhD candidate Fiona Hamersley Chambers has led environmental studies students across the campus
since 1999, using it as a living classroom as they study the relationship between people and plants.
Take a virtual tour from seaweeds and sea stars to wolves and eagles, with a new digital field guide. The guide provides experts and amateurs with a tool to identify over 700
species in the Great Bear Rainforest to help deepen our appreciation of the biodiversity along BC’s central coast.