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$ 8.7 million for 95 fish and wildlife projects in 2024-2025
27 Coastal Region 2024-2025 fish and wildlife projects
30 Columbia Region 2024-2025 fish and wildlife projects
24 Peace Region 2024-2025 fish and wildlife projects
In 2024-2025 our boards approved $8.7 million for 81 fish and wildlife projects to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams. As the projects proceed, we will share results and project outcomes here, including final project reports.
We share project results in our annual reports and project outcomes, through our Coastal, Columbia, and Peace region e-letters, social media, and this page.
Our projects can have immediate benefits to species and ecosystems. For example, if we fund a project to remove a culvert, fish passage can be improved right away. Other projects may take longer to show results. Our funding of recovery efforts for endangered Northern Leopard Frogs, caribou, and Vancouver Island Marmots are examples of where a longer-term commitment is needed before results will be evident.
Coastal Region — To improve habitat for western screech-owl in riparian habitat, 20 nest boxes have been installed in the Campbell River Watershed. Assessments of 91 existing nest boxes, along with monitoring over 10 nights, didn’t detect any western screech-owl using any of the boxes.
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Columbia Region — Invasive species such as yellow hawkweed is impacting overwintering habitat for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. In 2022, almost 60 hectares were treated at 199 sites. Because of this multi-year project, fewer sites needed to be treated this year.
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Peace Region — Wildlife tracking station in our Peace Region doubled from seven to 15. Birds Canada uses the tracking stations to monitor birds and bats. In 2022, 50 white-throated sparrows were tagged and tracked for thousands of kilometres on their migration to California and the U.S. Midwest.
Read moreTo make it easy for you to find project reports and results, we prepare and update searchable spreadsheets for each of our regions. Use these spreadsheets to find the report you want. Contact us anytime if you need help to find a FWCP project report.
FWCP reports and data are posted on provincial databases
EIRS: Environmental Information Resource System
EcoCat: The Ecological Reports Catalogue
Note: EcoCat is currently offline. If you are searching for an FWCP report in the meantime, please contact us.