PARTIAL LIST OF PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES – 2015
As QLF evolves in a 21st century world, training a new generation of environmental
and community leaders, building leadership capacity, convening leaders
to meet with one another, sharing information and experiences
should be the highest priority for this organization.
QLF At Fifty, a special publication of the Quebec-Labrador Foundation, 2008
To meet Mission, QLF focuses on LEADERSHIP, CONSERVATION, STEWARDSHIP, CULTURE AND HERITAGE.
I. LEADERSHIP
• This summer, two dozen Interns from academic institutions in Canada and the U.S. are deployed across
eastern Canada, New England, and overseas.
• The Scholarship Program has provided more than 1,200 scholarships to promising students in our home
region and beyond.
• QLF’s Global Leadership Network (GLN) is a formula for catalyzing conservation action by tapping QLF Alumni
from North America and overseas.
II. CONSERVATION
• Piping Plover Stewardship and Recovery (Newfoundland)
• Common Eider Habitat Enhancement (Newfoundland)
• Coastal Action for Clean Shores – Interns work with communities
along the Newfoundland Great Northern Peninsula to find solutions
to the persistent problem of marine debris.
• Spirit of Newfoundland and Labrador Fishing Industry – Distribution
of a documentary film produced by Intervale Consulting that explores Building Eider Nesting Boxes, Hare Bay, NF
the traditional values that have sustained fishing communities for 500 years.
• Youth Leadership Program – QLF coordinates a youth leadership program in Newfoundland and Labrador to teach
practical skills associated with fish and wildlife careers.
• Shorebird and Seabird Monitoring and Conservation (Hare Bay and Brador Bay, Newfoundland)
• Natural History Interpretation – Basque Whaling Station, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Red Bay,
Southern Labrador
• Interpretive Panels – QLF and its partner Bird Protection Quebec are working with local organizations to update
interpretive panels on seabirds in Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon, Quebec.
• The Sounds Conservancy Marine Program (New England and New York)
• The Middle East Conservation Exchange Program (Planned Fall 2015) Consulting assignment in
community-based natural resource management, Oman. QLF Alumni team.
• (Ongoing) Southeast Asia (Vietnam); Gulf of Honduras (Belize) Conservation Leaders Exchanges and technical
assistance by GLN teams
III. CULTURE AND HERITAGE, EASTERN CANADA
• Preserving Local Knowledge of Anglophone Minority Communities (Lower North Shore, Quebec)
• Stewardship of Cultural Heritage Through Archaeology, Whiteley Museum (Lower North Shore, Quebec)
• Youth Leadership Project Through Intergenerational Contact (Southern Labrador)
• Exploring History of Quebec’s Eastern Townships Through Outdoor Recreation
• Revising Jacques Cartier Trail Interpretive Panels (Lower North Shore, Quebec)
• Exploring Local History Though The Eyes of An Artist (Montreal Island, Quebec)
IV. STEWARDSHIP (to enable land owners and resource users to manage
and protect land and its natural and cultural heritage)
• International Stewardship (Latin America and Europe): exchanges,
research, publications, and technical assistance.
• Partnering With U.S. National Park Service Stewardship Institute:
research and policy publications.
• Global International Stewardship (QLF staff participation in World
Commission on Protected Areas)
Forest Stewardship Exchange with Vietnam,
V. INFORMATION SERVICES
Harvard Forest, MA
• Production of a QLF Brand Standards Guide
• Reconstructing QLF website and formalizing system of Intern blogs and other uses of social media
VI. STRATEGIC PLANNING
• Documenting implementation of the recommendations from the Final Report of the Strategic Planning Committee to
ensure a bright future for QLF
QLF INTERNSHIPS - 2015
Joseph Abbate, Princeton University (2018)
Piping Plover Conservation
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland
Katharine Litka, St. Lawrence University (2015)
Southeast Asia Conservation Exchange Program
QLF Headquarters, Massachusetts
Kailani Acosta, Brown University (2016)
Southeast Asia Conservation Exchange Program
QLF Headquarters, Massachusetts
Cynthia Liu, McGill University (2015)
Communications
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
Melinda Alfano, Master of Integrated Water
Resources Management
McGill University (2015)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
& Middle East Program, Jordan
Anna Maritz, Princeton University (2018)
Hare Bay Biodiversity Conservation
Main Brook & Hare Bay Islands
Ecological Reserve, Northern Newfoundland
Michael Meneses, Brown University (2014)
Communications, Global Leadership Network
Regional and International Programs
QLF Headquarters, Massachusetts
Matthew Nightingale, Brooks School (MA) (2016)
Hare Bay Biodiversity Conservation
Main Brook & Hare Bay Islands
Ecological Reserve, Northern Newfoundland
Adrean Ojoleck, Dalhousie University (2016)
Piping Plover Conservation
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland
Environmental Education, Main Brook, NF
Lisa Andrews, Master of Integrated
Water Resource Management
McGill University (2015)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
& Middle East Program, Morocco
Jeffrey Potts, Colgate University (2017)
Hare Bay Biodiversity Conservation
Main Brook & Hare Bay Islands
Ecological Reserve, Northern Newfoundland
Rachel Barrachina, Skidmore College (2016)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Headquarters, Massachusetts
Kevin Barry, Brooks School (MA) (2016)
Hare Bay Biodiversity Conservation
Main Brook & Hare Bay Ecological Islands
Reserve, Northern Newfoundland
Philippa Becker, Vanier College (2015)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
Mégane Déziel, University of Montreal (2013)
Piping Plover Conservation
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland
Alex DeParde, St. Lawrence University (2015)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
Elizabeth Hopkins, Skidmore College (2015)
The Sounds Conservancy Marine Program
QLF Headquarters, Massachusetts
Geulim Jun, Master of Science, Renewable
Resources
McGill University (2015)
Southeast Asia Conservation Exchange
Program
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
Adrienne Kotler, McGill University (2015)
Global Leadership Network
QLF Canada Office, Montréal, Québec
Coastal Cleanup, Hare Bay, NF
Mia Thomas, St. Lawrence University (2015)
Piping Plover Conservation
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland
& Natural History Interpretation
Basque Whaling Station, UNESCO World Heritage Site,
Red Bay Southern Labrador
Elizabeth Mitchell Wallace, Stanford University (2018)
Piping Plover Conservation
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland
& Natural History Interpretation
Basque Whaling Station, UNESCO World
Heritage Site,
Red Bay Southern Labrador
Sandrine Vigneron, Université de Montréal
(2014)
Hare Bay Biodiversity Conservation
Main Brook & Hare Bay Islands
Ecological Reserve, Northern Newfoundland
& Piping Plover Conservation,
Codroy Valley, Southwest Newfoundland