Environment Canada misses another deadline to release long-delayed plan for endangered caribou

March 20, 2025 For immediate release: Continued lack of action comes after decade-long delay, while rate of logging increased in B.C. caribou ranges səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories (VANCOUVER, B.C.) – Environmental organizations are criticizing Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) for missing yet another deadline…

Wildsight news : Education

Wildsight’s Go Wild! Youth Leadership Summer Trek a Huge Success

August 25, 2016 by Robyn Duncan

This summer 15 youth from across the region tackled some of the most rugged and remote wilderness in the Kootenays on Wildsight’s six-day Go Wild Youth Leadership Adventure. Led by Revelstoke’s Patagonia Ambassador and Pro Skier Leah…

Arrow Heights Elementary Students Inspire Stewardship of Painted Turtles

July 19, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

This summer, if you happen to walk up Red Devil Hill to the Painted Turtle kiosk, you’ll be greeted by stunning new banners, thanks to Amber Thompson’s Grade 4 class from Arrow Heights Elementary.

Slocan Students Connect to their Watershed and Inspire River Stewardship

July 19, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

If you saw students down at the Slocan River this spring, nets in hand, getting their feet wet, learning about water quality and the aquatic insects, then you were seeing kids in action, connecting to and discovering their local watershed…

Lucerne students participate in Silverton Creek riparian conservation

July 19, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Lucerne School science teacher Signy Fredrickson is all about getting her students outside. So it was no surprise to find her in early June digging holes and planting trees with her grades 7, 8 and 9 students on the banks…

Summer Wild Times

July 4, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Our summer print newsletter is hot off the presses, featuring summer hikes and paddles, branch events, new initiatives and inspiring people. Check it out! Wild Times Summer 2016 PLUS: Kimberley/Cranbrook Branch Update Invermere Branch Update Golden Branch Update Elk…

Salmo Students Create Signs to Help Conserve the Western Painted Turtle

May 24, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Students from Salmo Elementary have been working to design and install six interpretive panels to engage the community on the importance of conserving the Western Painted Turtle population at Champion Lakes Provincial Park near Fruitvale, B.C.

Toss, Grow and Enjoy

April 28, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Mrs. Heikkila’s Gr. 6/7 class at Rossland Summit School enjoyed getting their hands dirty while making their own Native Seed Bombs for Earth Day. The students have been participating in Beyond Recycling, our 24-week program that tackles…

Pizza, Beyond Recycling and a Tiny Home: An Interview with Dawn Deydey

April 22, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Dawn Deydey is Wildsight's coordinator for Beyond Recycling, a action-oriented sustainability program for kids in the Columbia Basin. She won a Canadian Hometown Hero award in 2013 for all of the amazing work she does in the Elk…

Annual Report 2015! Hot off the Press!

March 16, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

Thank you all, our supporters, funders, partners, members, volunteers and friends for an amazing year. Together, we got kids outside connecting with nature, we trained people to monitor their water, we held farmers' markets and film festivals, and kept the…

Thank you for a wild and beautiful year

January 8, 2016 by Lindsay Cuff

As 2015 comes to a close and we look toward the new year with hearts full of hope and spirits committed to action, we want to thank you. Thank you for coming out to rallies on freezing cold mornings, for…

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Environment Canada misses another deadline to release long-delayed plan for endangered caribou

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