Research and Environment Grant

The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust has multiple granting streams designed to fund a broad range of projects within the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Region. The CBT Research & Environment Committee has an annual $20,000 discretionary budget which is used to fund small projects throughout the region.

• Address key species and ecosystem threats within the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve region. For example, the threat of sea star wasting disease, the impact of commercial herring fishery on local marine ecosystem health, knowledge gaps on the threats of finfish aquaculture, the threat of invasive species on local native species diversity; address a declining trend in target species or ecosystems of ecological and/or cultural importance. For example, keystone species with multiple food chain linkages such as salmon, species of economic importance and/or cultural importance, and/or food security importance, charismatic species that elevate conservation awareness, and species that we feel we have a high stewardship responsibility to protect.
• Address key threats to Indigenous ways of knowing about sacred places and important knowledge for vibrant Nuu-chah-nulth people, culture, and connections to place
• Support the spirit and intent of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation and contribute to a specific conservation action that has broad application for mitigating an ecological and/or cultural threat such that system resilience is supported. Conservation action refers to a variety of responses that can mitigate the threat. For example, land or water protection, land or water management/restoration, species monitoring and management, education and policy change, and new modes of governance that support ecological and cultural resilience.

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