2025 Latornell Conservation Symposium Sponsors

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the sponsors of the 2025 Latornell Conservation Symposium. Your generous support is invaluable and plays a key role in ensuring the success of this important event.

Are you interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at Latornell? Explore our 2025 Sponsorship Prospectus to learn more about the available opportunities and select the perfect option for your organization. We look forward to partnering with you!

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Gardiner Roberts LLP

Founded in the 1920s, Gardiner Roberts LLP has grown to become a strategically placed multi-disciplinary law firm with a diverse client base which includes several of Canada’s largest banks, numerous medium to large-sized municipalities, agencies, boards and commissions and other government entities, high tech and software companies, real estate developers, lenders and investors.

A number of our lawyers have enjoyed in-house corporate positions and been appointed as board members of tribunals or as judges.

Booth #24

North-South Environmental

Since 1999, North-South Environmental Inc. (NSE) has provided ecological services to private and public sector clients. As a specialized ecological consulting firm, we provide expertise in aquatic, terrestrial and wetland ecology, natural heritage/environmental inventories, impact assessments and natural heritage/environmental planning. We apply a science-based foundation and a strong ethical standard to find practical environmental solutions with positive outcomes for our clients and the natural environment. Our staff includes experts in ecology, environmental policy, natural environmental planning and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

NSE’s vision is a sustainable and healthy natural environment for all. This vision informs all of what we do; we strive to embody this vision in our work, our decision-making and how we operate as a business. Our mission flows from this vision: to create sustainable solutions for natural systems. This is foundational to our work.

As experts in aquatic, terrestrial, wetland ecology, land use and natural environment planning and GIS, we work with planners, engineers, hydrogeologists, landscape architects, urban foresters and other professionals to find sustainable solutions that maintain, restore and manage natural environment systems in the context of urbanizing environments, as well as rural or wilderness settings. Based in Cambridge, Ontario, NSE provides services across Ontario and beyond.

Booth #15

Beacon Environmental Ltd.

Beacon is an incorporated, proudly Canadian and employee-owned company based in Ontario celebrating 20 years of service in 2025, founded in response to the growing need for high quality environmental assessment, strategic advice and planning services. At Beacon, we specialize in all aspects of terrestrial and aquatic ecology and provide environmental services in geomorphology, landscape architecture, arboriculture, agrology and limnology. Our team provides services from five offices and is able to communicate with clients in five languages. We have proudly played a lead role in thousands of projects in Ontario, across Canada and internationally. Beacon Environmental brings together a team of highly skilled and experienced professionals who provide specialized expertise to a wide array of satisfied clients across sectors.

At Beacon, our focus is on applying our skills to a wide range of environmental projects using integrated and collaborative approaches and welcome new staff from diverse backgrounds.

Booth #3

Greenbelt Foundation

The Greenbelt Foundation stewards Ontario’s Greenbelt – over 2 million acres of protected farmland, forests, wetlands, rivers, and lakes that nourish us, safeguard our water, fight climate change, and enhance our quality of life. We invest in the Greenbelt’s interconnected natural, agricultural, economic, and cultural systems, to ensure a working, thriving Greenbelt for all.

Booth #25

Natural Resource Solutions Inc.

Natural Resource Solutions Inc. (NRSI) is comprised of over 70 full-time permanent biologists with expertise in aquatic, terrestrial and wetland biology.

Booth #17

Ontario Phragmites Action

The Ontario Phragmites Action (OPA) program is an exciting new effort to enhance a coordinated response to invasive Phragmites across Ontario. The program has been made possible thanks to an important new investment from Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and is implemented by the Invasive Species Centre, Nature Conservancy of Canada, and a number of other key partners.

Booth #1

Ontario Woodlot Association

The Ontario Woodlot Association is a community of woodlot stewards that live, work and play in our forests. Together we restore, manage and advocate for healthy forest ecosystems. As an organization built by enthusiastic and engaged people, committed to using best management practices, we want our woodlots to be sustainable and productive, ecologically healthy and diverse, and spiritually and physically renewing.

Booth #14

University of Toronto - Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences

The University of Toronto is Canada’s top university and home to several renowned co-op and internship programs. The Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences (DPES) has academic researchers, state-of-the-art analytical facilities, and a wide variety of graduate programs interested in academic-industry partnerships. Our department also hosts several world-renowned faculty members who are highly sought after for their expertise in geochemistry, geohydrology, environmental contaminants, and environmental systems modelling.

Our department offers a Master of Environmental Science (MEnvSc) program committed to developing well-trained practitioners in environmental science, primarily to meet the needs of industry, governments, and environmental policy/education organizations. To learn more about our program and how you can hire one of our students, please visit https://www.uoft.me/interns.

Booth #26

Water's Edge

Water’s Edge is an employee-owned, niche consulting firm located in Cambridge (Galt), Ontario that provides fluvial geomorphological, natural channel design and water resources engineering services to government, agency and land development clientele. Our company was incorporated in 2004 by the president, Dr. Ed Gazendam. Our staff are committed to an integrated, multi-disciplinary design approach utilizing an Adaptive Environmental Management framework. Learn more at http://www.watersedge-est.ca.

Booth #16

Beacon Environmental Ltd. (Lunch Sponsor)

Beacon is an incorporated, proudly Canadian and employee-owned company based in Ontario celebrating 20 years of service in 2025, founded in response to the growing need for high quality environmental assessment, strategic advice and planning services. At Beacon, we specialize in all aspects of terrestrial and aquatic ecology and provide environmental services in geomorphology, landscape architecture, arboriculture, agrology and limnology. Our team provides services from five offices and is able to communicate with clients in five languages. We have proudly played a lead role in thousands of projects in Ontario, across Canada and internationally. Beacon Environmental brings together a team of highly skilled and experienced professionals who provide specialized expertise to a wide array of satisfied clients across sectors.

At Beacon, our focus is on applying our skills to a wide range of environmental projects using integrated and collaborative approaches and welcome new staff from diverse backgrounds.