September 2021

Most conservationists are motivated by the purpose of their work. But that work often involves a lot of struggle and it can be daunting, especially when one does not yet have the experience of hard-won success to draw inspiration from. So, how do we keep going when the odds seem stacked against us?

Grant Pearsell (pictured left) and Widar Narvelo (right) both recently retired from decades-long, pioneering careers in urban conservation - Widar at the City of Helsingborg in Sweden and Grant at the City of Edmonton in Canada. In this discussion they share some of the wisdom and experience they have gathered over their lifelong work.

Links to resources:

• Natural Areas and Urban Biodiversity - City of Edmonton webpages covering their biodiversity work. If you look for the tab titled "Land" on the site, you will find additional pages on related topics.

• Grönstrukturprogram - City of Helsingborg web pages on "green structures" (Swedish)

• Local Action for Biodiversity - Archived web pages with resources from the ICLEI project, which Grant mention in the discussion.