Biodiversity Best Practices and Case Studies:
A Snapshot of ENGO Biodiversity Activities in Canada

To mark the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, the RCEN launched a Best Practices/Case Studies Contest to gather innovative and effective examples of environmental non-governmental organizations’ (ENGOs) work related to the conservation, sustainable use, and awareness of biodiversity.

RCEN Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook

The winning best practices are now featured in our "Biodiversity BestPractices Handbook 2009: Case studies from the environmental non-government sector". This handbook features twelve projects from within seven of Canada’s terrestrial ecozones that were selected as representative best practices of what ENGOs are doing to help increase or protect biodiversity from coast to coast to coast:

Read: Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook 2009: Case studies from the environmental non-government sector (pdf; 2mb)

The handbook is a public document that we encourage you to download, print, link to, post and generally to make as much use of as possible! A limited number of print copies will be available soon.

The RCEN congratulates everyone involved in these and other projects for their successes (all Handbook submissions are posted on the interactive map below). They are important not only in themselves but are a significant contribution to the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Thank you to Environment Canada for supporting the project and the RCEN members who put the handbook together: John Coombs, Fabiola Corona, Ester Strijbos and especially Maggie Paquet, whose expert advice and countless hours of work made an invaluable contribution to the project.

Cross-Canada Biodiversity Activities
In addition to the winning submissions that are now featured in the biodiversity handbook, we also received many great submissions from groups across Canada. Click on the map below to read about ENGO Biodiversity Best Practives and Case Studies from different parts of the country:

For more information, please contact Sarah Heiberg, RCEN National Caucus Coordinator, at sarah@cen-rce.org or at 514-833-9810.