We're hiring: Conservation Coordinator

Job Title: Conservation Coordinator Where: Anywhere in the East Kootenay region, based from your home office FTE or Hours: 0.6 FTE (22.5 hours/week) Starting: January 6, 2025 Description: Wildsight is seeking a Conservation Coordinator to join our team. The ideal candidate is passionate about wildlife, an avid outdoor recreationist, familiar with the Columbia Valley and Kootenay Region…

Wildsight news : Forests

B.C. allows logging in critical habitat of one of the province’s sole recovering caribou herds. [The Narwhal]

March 30, 2022 by Eddie Petryshen

Satellite imagery reveals new cutblocks are ‘nibbling away’ at the critical habitat of the endangered Columbia North caribou herd, widely considered to be the Kootenay-area population with the highest chance of persisting in the long term.

Argonaut Creek taken off the chopping block

December 3, 2021 by Eddie Petryshen

After significant pressure from Indigenous nations and the public, the BC government has agreed to defer an old growth valley north of Revelstoke that provides critical habitat for caribou. The B.C. government's own logging agency, BC Timber Sales…

Guest Blog: Ancient cedar stands at risk in Shuswap’s own Fairy Creek

November 26, 2021 by Wildsight

The article below was originally published in the Salmon Arm Observer and Shuswap Passion. By Jim Cooperman Thanks to the work of a forest campaigner, Eddie Petryshen, from the Kootenay environmental group Wildsight, we are now aware of the plans…

Act now: Support a brighter future for BC’s old growth

November 9, 2021 by Wildsight

The BC government recently announced plans to defer logging of 2.6 million hectares of high-risk old growth forests pending the outcome of consultations with Indigenous Nations. The deferrals, based on the priority areas identified by the independent Old…

Province announces next steps for old growth protections

November 2, 2021 by Wildsight

Today the provincial government took steps towards protecting BC's irreplaceable old growth forests, but the work is not done yet. An Old Growth Technical Review Panel found that nearly 70 percent of BC’s old growth forests are unprotected…

Studying the forest for the trees

October 28, 2021 by Lorene Keitch

We walk through the forest, crisscrossing wildlife paths. The ground rises and falls beneath our feet. Brush swipes pant legs; rocks roll under our shoes as we make our way from the logging road to the site of today's…

Salvage logging rules must change to protect ecosystem health

October 27, 2021 by Wildsight

B.C. needs to drastically change post fire logging and support ecosystem health By Alan Duffy (BC Backcountry Hunters and Anglers), John Bergenske (Wildsight), and Jim Turner (United Bowhunters of BC) As autumn rains extinguish the last of this summer…

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We're hiring: Conservation Coordinator

Wildsight news : Forests

B.C. allows logging in critical habitat of one of the province’s sole recovering caribou herds. [The Narwhal]

Argonaut Creek taken off the chopping block

Guest Blog: Ancient cedar stands at risk in Shuswap’s own Fairy Creek

Act now: Support a brighter future for BC’s old growth

Province announces next steps for old growth protections

Studying the forest for the trees

Salvage logging rules must change to protect ecosystem health

Province announces long awaited changes to forestry legislation

Webinar: Save forests; safe communities

Logging threatens important caribou habitat

We're hiring: Conservation Coordinator

Wildsight news : Forests

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