Constance O'Connor
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About Constance O'Connor
Constance O’Connor is a conservation scientist who leads WCS Canada’s research and conservation program in the Ontario Northern Boreal landscape. She is also an adjunct professor at Lakehead and Laurentian Universities. Her work focuses on understanding the cumulative impacts of climate change and development on freshwater fish and freshwater ecosystems, and working with decision-makers to bring evidence to planning, management, and policy.
More than minerals at stake in Ontario’s claim-staking boom
Areas in northern Ontario being claimed for rights to critical minerals that may lie beneath ancestral and current territories of Indigenous Peoples.