Sure. Thank you, Coree.
My name is Neil Fletcher. I am the director of conservation stewardship for the B.C. Wildlife Federation. I'm calling you from the unceded Coast Salish territory in New Westminster, B.C.
In 2021, we hired over a hundred people, working with seven other organizations, including Ducks Unlimited, Nature Trust, Nature Conservancy and a number of other non-profits, as well as a Kootenay indigenous band. Throughout that year, we certainly worked on a lot of different projects. There were 200 across the province.
On the point of collaborating and getting some of this work done, I think one of the salient points is that recently we've been involved in a process for watershed planning in the Nicola with both government-to-government and first nation-to-provincial government planning. There have been tremendous impacts on infrastructure in that region from the atmospheric river flood event of 2021. The ones taking leadership right now are a lot of the first nations in the area, which want to listen to the groups that are doing the work. There are pipelines going through. There are new highways being punched through. There are a lot of moving parts, but currently it's the leadership from the first nations that is bringing people together to talk about planning and to put the puzzle pieces together. People operate in—