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.
Wildsight news
Macro-Invertebrate Explorations at McGinty Lake
Written By: Kim Urbaniak Twenty-Two kids wiggle and giggle and spin around, transforming into mayfly nymphs right before my eyes. The grade two class has just walked through the forest pretending to be mayfly eggs, quiet and unassuming.
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.
Vote today for pro rep in BC!
Will your vote arrive in Victoria by December 7th? You only have a few more days to drop your proportional referendum ballot into the mail and have it arrive on time! Polls are showing that BC voters are split right…
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.