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  • Wetlands Need Stewards! – Victoria Wetlandkeepers

    Wetlands Need Stewards! – Victoria Wetlandkeepers

    From July 16-18, the Wetlands Education Program (WEP) team had the pleasure of partnering with the Habitat Acquisition Trust, Haliburton Community Organic Farm Society, and the Rithet’s Bog Conservation Society for the Victoria Wetlandkeepers Workshop. BCWF acknowledges and respects the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, whose traditional territory Victoria is on, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ Nations who steward and live-in relationship with these lands since time immemorial. The purpose of this workshop was to…

  • The Wetlands Education Program Beats The Heat With Chawathil First Nation

    The Wetlands Education Program Beats The Heat With Chawathil First Nation

    From June 25 – 27, the Wetlands Education Program (WEP) team had the pleasure of partnering with Chawathil First Nation for the 2021 Chawathil Wetlandkeepers Workshop. This workshop was designed to provide a brief, but in-depth overview of the technical skills and knowledge needed to become better wetland stewards. Over the course of two and a half days,…

  • Healer of the Land — Dave Polster, his Techniques, and a Legacy of Trees

    Healer of the Land — Dave Polster, his Techniques, and a Legacy of Trees

    Dave Polster is a plant ecologist with over 40 years of experience in vegetation studies, reclamation, and invasive species management.

  • The B.C. Wildlife Federation Fish Habitat Restoration and Education Program Receives Funding for Outdoor Access Improvement Project 

    The B.C. Wildlife Federation Fish Habitat Restoration and Education Program Receives Funding for Outdoor Access Improvement Project 

    Increasing accessibility to outdoor spaces while providing employment and economic stimulus in communities across B.C.  The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s Fish Habitat Restoration and Education Program (FHREP) has been awarded with over $600,000 in funding by the Province of British Columbia, as part of the Community Economic Recovery Infrastructure Program (CERIP), and by the Columbia Basin…

  • Birdhouse Boom! Building Real Estate for Wetland Birds

    Birdhouse Boom! Building Real Estate for Wetland Birds

    The Wetlands Workforce is helping build real estate for wetland birds by building birdhouses to place in restored wetlands.

  • The Yaqan Nukiy Wetland Project

    The Yaqan Nukiy Wetland Project

    Over the last three years, the B.C. Wildlife Federation’s Wetlands Education Program has been working in partnership with the Lower Kootenay Band on two landscape-scale restoration projects on traditional Yaqan Nukiy territory. The project site is well over 517 hectares in size.

  • World Water Day

    World Water Day

    World Waters Day: New Wetlands Workforce project launches, a year-long initiative to improve the function of British Columbia’s wetlands.

  • B.C.’s Wetlands are Getting a Boost

    B.C.’s Wetlands are Getting a Boost

    B.C.’s Wetlands are getting a boost, with the B.C. Wildlife Federation receiving $5 million to maintain important Wetlands across the Province in 2021.

  • Our First Nations Liaison

    Our First Nations Liaison

    Meet Glenn Auger, Wetlands Workforce First Nations Liaison. Glenn has a diverse background of skills and experiences, but it is the work he has done as a First Nations Liaison that has given him much joy in his career.

  • Our Wetland Stewards

    Our Wetland Stewards

    The Wetlands Workforce program started with four key wetland stewards, brought on after completing their internship with the B.C. Wildlife Federation, through the Canadian Conservation Corps (CCC) Program.