VIU team spearheads research
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Updated: September 28, 2009 4:32 PM
Researchers at Vancouver Island University have received a $2-million grant to spearhead an international study in three countries. The five-year project, called the Canada-Africa Research and Learning Alliance, will focus on reducing poverty and increasing environmental sustainability in communities adjacent to national parks and other protected areas in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania.
Research will be conducted in selected study sites in each of the three countries. There are two sites in Canada – Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Tribal Parks in Tofino – three in Tanzania and two in Ghana.
“This exciting international project brings together 17 universities, government agencies, and communities from all three countries,” said principal investigator Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair in Coastal Resource Management at VIU.
The alliance is led by Murray, Kwasi Nsiah Gyabaah, the president of Sunyani Polytechnic in Sunyani, Ghana, and Ladislaus Kahana from the College of African Wildlife Management in Tanzania.
The Canadian team includes researchers from three universities – VIU, University of Victoria and the University of Guelph.
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