Mary Ann Perron

The Liber Ero Fellowship Program is one of Canada’s most prestigious and competitive postdoctoral awards, supporting exceptional early-career scientists whose work addresses pressing conservation and management challenges relevant to Canada. The authors work on issues surrounding fisheries management, species-at-risk legislation, ecosystem monitoring, agricultural sustainability, and many more.

Canada’s nature strategy needs science and transparency, not spending cuts

Protecting biodiversity requires more than targets on paper. It depends on sustained investment in three pillars of scientific capacity: long-term monitoring, scientific expertise and recovery infrastructure. All three are now at risk.

opinion | BY JAYME LEWTHWAITE, MARY ANN PERRON, MATHILDE TISSIER | May 28, 2026