2025 PARKS+ Collective eSummit

Connecting Knowers, Doers, and Learners!

The PARKS+ Collective's (formerly CPPCL) fifth annual Parks and Protected Areas Research Network eSummit and webinar series will combine online sharing and collaboration with interactive nature breaks and a year-long webinar series to bring together Knowers, Doers, and Learners!

Our goal is to narrow the gap between research and action by sharing interdisciplinary knowledge and build an inclusive, intergenerational, collaborative network of parks and protected areas organizations and individuals.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

INDIVIDUAL RATES:

Due to our success in attracting group registrations (see below), we are pleased to be able to lower individual participant fees by 50% for this year's eSummit!

Government, academic, industry, or independent - $72

Non-profit - $60

Student or Seasonal - $36

If this cost is still a barrier, please contact don.cdh@ubc.ca

If you have a group registration or other promotional code, you will be asked to enter it during checkout.

GROUP OR COMMUNITY REGISTRATION:

The PARKS+ Collective is pleased to offer group registration so you can invite your entire team and community partners to participate and connect through the eSummit.

Large Agency 101-500 passes: $4800 ($10/pass)

Medium Agency 26-100 passes: $1200 ($12/pass)

Small Agency 4-24 passes: $360 ($14/pass)

Contact don.cdh@ubc.ca to request group registration.

The PARKS+ Collective eSummit is supported in large part by the Parks Canada-funded project to implement a pan-Canadian parks and protected research network. Fees for the event cover the costs of simultaneous English/French interpretation, web hosting and online event service fees, complimentary registration for people facing barriers, and honorarium for speakers.

The call for submissions is now closed. Thank you to over forty people who submitted presentation proposals!

We are currently contacting presenters and confirming all the sessions. There is no single theme for the eSummit or webinar series. However, some topics of interest we will explore this year in five, fifteen, or 45-minute interactive sessions include (but are not limited to):

- Braiding knowledges and Indigenous-led conservation
- Accessibility, inclusion, and equity for visitors, partners, and/or employees
- Reconnecting people, nature, and culture through parks
- Planning for recovery after disaster or disruption
- Visitor use management and purposeful tourism
- Teaching in and about parks and protected areas
- Workforce diversity
- Collaboration between practitioners, researchers, industry, and communities
- Conservation in the face of climate change

The eSummit invites scholars and knowledge keepers (Knowers), government, Indigenous, non-profit, and community organization practitioners (Doers), and students, researchers, or new hires (Learners) to join us for four half-days of plenary presentations, panels on related themes, snapshots of research-in-progress and research needs, nature-breaks, and virtual tea talks to connect in small groups with peers from your region.

As a virtual event, the eSummit helps reduce our carbon footprint and increase accessibility for participants. All sessions are offered with simultaneous French/English interpretation.