Dan Slavik
BC Conservation Portfolio Manager
Dan Slavik BC Conservation Portfolio Manager © Nature United
Area of Focus
Leads BC portfolio of Indigenous-led conservation and improved forest management projects.
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I'm excited to contribute to Nature United’s work — supporting deep on-the-ground partnerships, strategies grounded in science and Indigenous knowledge, and bold action aligned with Indigenous communities’ conservation priorities.
Biography
Dan started working at Nature United in 2025 as the BC Conservation Portfolio Manager. He leads Nature United’s support for a portfolio of Indigenous-led conservation and Improved Forest Management projects that serve to test and develop new, innovative and scalable models of conservation and forest management across British Columbia.
Dan’s career and passion revolves around building the research and management capacity for communities to have their knowledge, values and livelihoods better reflected in wildlife management, conservation and development decision-making. He is a inter-disciplinary environmental scientist with an M.Sc in Environmental Sociology and an MBA from the University of Alberta. Prior to joining Nature United, Dan was Head of Conservation Partnerships and Protected Areas for the Canadian Wildlife Service in the Yukon and NWT. He was also the Director of Forest Carbon Origination for Western Canada with Finite Carbon and Manager of Research and Training with Braiding Knowledges Canada.
Dan lives in Edmonton / Amiskwaciwâskahikan (“Beaver Hills House”) in Treaty 6 Territory and spends his non-work hours walking his husky, keeping up to his daughters on their bikes, canoeing and cross-country skiing in the North Saskatchewan river valley.