Have you seen birds?
“Have you seen winter birds? Searching snow and tapping bark, Perching puffed in freezing dark Winter birds need lots of feed, Scraps of fat and sacks of seed. Have you seen birds?" I used to think of birding as kind…
Wildsight news : Conservation
It’s up to us to write the story
I’m writing to you because we need your help today to fight for our wildlife and wild spaces. You may have seen the many news reports coming out lately about how our world’s wilderness is disappearing.
For decades B.C. failed to address selenium pollution in the Elk Valley. Now no one knows how to stop it. [The Narwhal]
There are no viable solutions to stop the tide of selenium leaching into Canadian and U.S. water from a 100-kilometre stretch of coal mines owned and operated by mining giant Teck. Deformed fish, a potential fish population collapse and contaminated drinking water signal more trouble to come.
Celebrating the Success of the Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey
The results of the fall 2018 Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey (CWWS) are in! With the highest bird counts since the project’s inception in 2015, and with the largest number of volunteers participating… this was our best set of bird…
Environmental groups call on feds to step up B.C. caribou protections
VANCOUVER – Ecojustice lawyers, acting on behalf of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Greenpeace Canada, Wilderness Committee, and Wildsight, sent a letter to Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna on Friday, Nov.
Jumbo: Things are stalled, but still moving
Last night I went to the Jumbo Creek Conservation Society (JCCS) annual meeting in Invermere. Together, we celebrated that the Jumbo Valley has stayed wild for another year. The JCCS has been Wildsight’s main partner in the decades-long…
Not Giving Up: The recovery of Mountain Caribou Will Take Generations
The provincial government recently announced plans to capture the remaining six caribou from the South Selkirks and South Purcell herds and translocate the animals to a maternal pen near Revelstoke. This is the latest chapter in an ongoing heartbreaking story…
Stand up to make sure mines pay for their own cleanup!
Who pays to clean up old mines? Our mine reclamation security system is supposed to make sure mine owners pay to clean up their mine sites and downstream pollution, but there are so many exceptions, secrets, weak policies and backroom…
Wildsight, Robert Bateman and environmental groups renew call for government action on mountain caribou
Wildsight, joining with other environmental groups in B.C., have called on the provincial government for an immediate moratorium on new development in caribou mountain critical habitat. This comes after discovering that, since May, the B.C.
B.C. approved 83 logging cut blocks in endangered caribou habitat in last six months [The Narwhal]
New survey of permits granted by province highlights incongruity between treatment of forestry companies and a critically imperilled species