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Author: Sean Mitchell

NAFF IV Conference 2023

A couple weeks ago, between October 16th and 19th, Nanaimo BC hosted the Fourth National Indigenous Fisheries and Aquaculture Forum, an event to which NRTG staff attended. Over three days, there were presentations regarding various aspects of fisheries and aquaculture and opportunities for Indigenous nations.

Can parks tell us as much about human behaviour as that of wildlife?

We heard the eerie bugle of the elk before we saw him. The sound seized the attention of the five point bull we were watching; he was nervous and eyeing the building while also trying to sidle up to the cows. Then the huge dominant bull walked around from behind the hotel and, glaring at the younger animal, began to pace toward it.

Successful Resumes: Ten Recommendations To Demonstrate To The Employer You Can Solve Their Problem

The resume is one of the most important documents you will write in your life: it is your passport to new opportunities. Unfortunately, I find that most people are not served well by their own resume. Someone that I talk to for fifteen minutes on zoom and shows passion, intelligence, and experience sends me their resume and in it they are flat, lifeless, and without colour. This is what I mean by not being served well; it does not reflect who they truly are.

Are the rules of the game changing?

Science – and so its children biology, natural history, and ecology – is based, fundamentally, on unchanging truths. That is, that basic principles are continuous and unvarying over time and in being thus they are predictable.

Field work: the importance of boots on the ground

We live, for better or for worse, in a society with an eye solidly fixed on technology and even I, a traditionalist and modern Luddite, find it remarkable the insights that technology has provided. Drones with infra-red capabilities allow us to see much more than the human eye can. Wildlife cameras provide a window into behaviour we had no inkling of.