Pamela will help oversee the Aboriginal Rights and Free, Prior Informed Consent Project which is a key component of FSC Canada’s Forest Management Standards Revision Process.
Pamela Perreault is a member of Garden River First Nation in Ontario. Her academic and consulting careers have taken her across Canada and around the world in pursuit of knowledge and understanding of Indigenous peoples connection with forested landscapes. Between 1997 and 2014 she lived in British Columbia but worked extensively with First Nation communities and organizations all over Canada on natural resource issues such as consultation policy development and implementation, forest resource management, land-use planning, non-timber forest resources (NTFRs), community-based research and Aboriginal governance related to lands and resources. In 2014, Pamela returned to her home community of Garden River First Nation with her husband and son.
Pamela has been a research fellow at the University of Auckland NZ, a Member of the Forest Sciences Board of the BC Ministry of Forests, a Program Coordinator in the Faculty of Forestry at UBC, a university instructor on Haida Gwaii and at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie. She has a biology degree, specializing in freshwater ecology from the University of Waterloo and a Masters of Science in Forestry from UBC. She is co-editor of Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada (UBC Press 2013).