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Apply now: join our Peace Region board! We’re looking for a new public member to join our Peace Region board for a three-year term starting as early as summer 2024. The Peace Region board is […]

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E-letter Columbia Region April 2024 E-letter Columbia Region February 2024 E-letter Columbia Region December 2023 E-letter Columbia Region September 2023 E-letter Columbia Region August 2023 E-letter Columbia Region May 2023 E-letter Provincial April 2023 E-letter […]

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New Columbia Region board member!

Greg Rickbeil: new public representative for our Columbia Region board! Meet Greg. He’s the newest member of our Columbia Region board, that is responsible for all funding decisions and the region’s annual operating plan. There […]

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Video: Fishers Try Out New Dens!

With funding from the FWCP, work is underway to increase available habitat for Fishers. See for yourself how things are going. Video: Fishers Try Out New Dens

Coastal Region

We’ve Helped Fund Mackenzie Nature Observatory for 21 Years

The Mackenzie Nature Observatory is a non-profit group collecting information on migratory birds at its bird banding station at Mugaha Marsh in the Rocky Mountain Trench, east of the Parsnip Reach of the Williston Reservoir. […]

Peace Region

Heart Creek: Access to Kokanee Spawning Habitat Improved

With funding from the FWCP and other partners, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) has replaced a hanging culvert with an 18-metre-long, clear span bridge near Fauquier. The project has resulted in approximately 250 […]

Columbia Region

Improving Fish Passage Near Elko

Improving access to existing fish habitat is one of the most effective ways of helping spawning and rearing fish. Wickman Creek, within the Caven Creek watershed near Elko in the East Kootenay, was the site […]

Columbia Region

Pass Creek: Fish Habitat Improved

It has been some time since Pass—or Norns—Creek has received any improvements for fish habitat, but that changed last year thanks to the Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA). With funding from the Fish & Wildlife Compensation […]

Columbia Region

14 Baby Marmots Born!

Fourteen baby Vancouver Island marmots were recently born in captivity! That’s great news for the endangered Vancouver Island Marmot. The Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Team has been working for close to 20 years to increase […]

Coastal Region

Epic Journey for Sparrow

The Mackenzie Nature Observatory, with funding support from the FWCP, has been collecting long-term data about birds for more than two decades. While the data is vital to understanding specie abundance, it is often the […]

Peace Region
Heron, credit: Phil Payne

Research Confirms: Heron Nesting Success Declining

Between 2002 and 2008 the FWCP supported extensive monitoring of Great Blue Herons in the Columbia Basin by Pandion Ecological Research Ltd. Since then, many volunteers, together with the Ministry of the Forests, Lands and […]

Columbia Region