VANCOUVER, B.C. — The University of British Columbia is renaming its Faculty of Forestry to the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, marking a significant step in the evolution of one of Canada’s leading centres for environmental research, education and innovation. The change recognizes a shift underway across Canada and around the world: managing forests alone is no longer enough to solve today’s environmental challenges. Climate change, intensifying wildfires and floods, clean water scarcity, food insecurity, and accelerating biodiversity loss all threaten ecosystems and livelihoods alike. Responding to these crises requires ethical, responsible and sustainable management systems grounded in conservation, respect and education – this is environmental stewardship. Environmental stewardship reflects the faculty’s expanded role in climate adaptation, wildfire resilience, flood prevention, water and watershed protection, urban greening, food security, biodiversity conservation and management, greenspace management, environmental equity and the fast-growing low-carbon bioeconomy. …“This change reflects what we have already become,” said Dean Kozak.