Our three regional boards approved $9.4 million for 100 projects in 2021–2022, including 31 projects in our Coastal Region, 43 in our Columbia Region, and 26 in our Peace Region.
The work being done through these project supports the FWCP’s vision of thriving fish and wildlife populations in watersheds that are functioning and sustainable.
100 Total 2021-22 Projects
31 Coastal Region Projects
43 Columbia Region Projects
26 Peace Region Projects
The Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) conserves and enhances fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams. The FWCP is funded annually by BC Hydro. The FWCP directs those funds towards priority actions across its three regions to fulfill its mission and work towards its vision of thriving fish and wildlife populations in watersheds that are functioning and sustainable.
By funding projects to support fish and wildlife populations in our Coastal, Columbia and Peace Regions, the FWCP is fulfilling BC Hydro’s applicable water licence obligations and voluntary commitments to compensate for fish and wildlife impacts.
BC Hydro is actively engaged in the FWCP and works in equal partnership with the Province of B.C., Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and public stakeholders by participating on FWCP’s regional Boards. The FWCP’s three independent regional Boards review and approve all project funding decisions and annual operating plans.
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Salmon species, including sockeye, chum, Chinook, pink, coho, and kokanee, will be the focus of several projects approved by our board for 2021–2022. Several other projects focus on endangered species, including Vancouver Island marmots, northern spotted owls, and whitebark pine trees.
View See Action PlansCaribou, bats, migratory birds, moose, bull trout, Arctic grayling, wetland and riparian species, and others will benefit from the projects that were approved by the board for 2021–2022. We will also continue our multi-year project to investigate limiting factors affecting moose in the Peace Region.
View See Action PlansCaribou, bull trout, kokanee, grizzly bears, wetland species, at-risk reptiles, waterfowl, and other species will benefit from the projects approved by our board in 2021–2022.
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Archived Action Plans These archived Coastal and Columbia region Action Plans are for reference only. They do not provide current guidance on priority actions, and are no longer the basis for project funding from FWCP. […]
Studying Chinook and Bull Trout in the Bridge-Seton Watershed Electrofishing surveys conducted at 12 spatially distributed sites on the Yalakom River in the Bridge Seton River Watershed by Coldstream Ecology in October 2019, showed four […]
Developing and evaluating bat mitigation strategies About 200 bats in a Stave Lake colony have been successfully inoculated against white-nose syndrome—a disease causing mass die-offs in bat populations—through an innovative project by the Wildlife Conservation […]