Survivor: Animals in winter edition

Survivor: Animals in winter edition

Wildsight news

Students Take Action for Turtles!

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Local students have been working hard to enhance the West Fernie Wetland, making it more turtle-friendly. The project is part of Wildsight’s EcoStewards program, in partnership with the Elk River Alliance, as part of their Accepting Beavers and…

Young Stewards in Action

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Last week, Julie Howard’s class from Fernie Secondary helped turn an old gravel pit in the Hosmer area into a functioning wetland. The project was a Deep Learning Project, part of Know Your Watershed, a program of the Columbia…

Work With Us: Education Coordinator

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Wildsight seeks a part-time Education Coordinator to join our team and support our classroom environmental education programs throughout the Columbia Basin, with a focus on our four Education in the Wild programs – Winter Wonder, Nature through the Seasons, Classroom…

Beyond Recycling students inspire with what’s possible

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Motivated to make a difference, the Grades 4-6 students in Beyond Recycling—our sustainability education program—are coming up with innovative ideas to meet complex environmental challenges. As the culmination of their eight-month journey beyond recycling, each of…

Remembering Juri Peepre

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Wildsight mourns the loss of a passionate and courageous leader of the environmental community. Juri Peepre, who passed away peacefully on May 13 at his home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains near Windermere, inspired us with his deep…

Polluting our neighbour’s river—and our own

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British Columbia has vowed to stop Kinder Morgan from building a bitumen pipeline across our province, over pollution and climate concerns. But on the other side of the province, in the Kootenays, pollution of a different kind is flowing from…