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Columbia Wetland Waterbird Survey Final Report
The final report for the 2015-2019 Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey (CWWS) is now available. The CWWS incorporated the efforts of more than 230 volunteer citizen-scientists. Over the duration of the hugely successful project, the CWWS documented 163 bird…
It’s time for safe wildlife crossings on Highway 3
Two-hundred and forty dead animals are removed from Highway 3 through the Elk Valley every year, including deer, elk, moose and even bears. A new report from RoadWatchBC identifies ten key locations along the highway for future wildlife crossing…
But there’s also hope
We need your help to protect our wildlife, water, plants and the wild spaces that support them.
Understanding the wily wolverine
Wildsight and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) are touring the Kootenays with the film Chasing a Trace. The film will be followed by a presentation and discussion highlighting wolverine research happening in the region directly from biologists involved in…
Wildsight’s Melissa Flint awarded CBEEN Environmental Education Award of Excellence
Each year the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) awards educators who demonstrate excellence in environmental education in the Columbia Basin. This year, Wildsight Educator Melissa Flint won the Environmental Education Award of Excellence for her work as a Community…
Closed—We’re Hiring: Communications Specialist
This position is no longer open. Wildsight is looking for a creative, collaborative, passionate and productive Communications Specialist to join our team. This is a 1.0 FTE position that comes with five weeks vacation and a Private Health Services…
Death on Highway 3: Keeping wildlife and our communities safe
“There was a time when most things were nature, most was habitat. And you were trying to connect a couple of towns by a road—that was the corridor of that day.
Youth Go Wild! in the Rockies: Wildlife, thunderstorms and adventure
Wildsight's annual GoWild! six-day wilderness adventure wrapped up this summer. This years trip took Kootenay youth ages 14-18 into some of the most rugged and remote wilderness of the region in Height of the Rockies Provincial park…
Wolverines need to room to roam: The importance of connected wild places
Photo by Jared Belson Canada's Southern Rocky and Purcell Mountains are a vital part of North America’s most intact and important wildlife corridors. The mountain ranges form crucial migratory bird habitat, and are critical habitat for grizzly bears…