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$ 9.8 million for 95 fish and wildlife projects in 2022-2023
30 Coastal Region 2022-2023 fish and wildlife projects
40 Columbia Region 2022-2023 fish and wildlife projects
25 Peace Region 2022-2023 fish and wildlife projects
Each year we fund projects to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams.
We share project results in our newsletter, annual reports, and through WildBytes, our quarterly e-letter.
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 — Seine nets were used to capture declining Chinook in Portage Creek in the Bridge-Seton Watershed. Six females and 11 males were spawned, in 2020, resulting in an egg take of 27,020, and about 4,000 fry were safely released.
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Columbia Region — Volunteers removed 1,500 metres of wire fencing in the Pend d’Oreille Valley near Trail. The fencing installed in the 1990s was no longer needed, and was impacting wildlife movements in this important corridor for white-tailed deer and other ungulates.
Peace Region — Forty-two road ponds—that’s flooded road ditch habitat—in our Peace Region were surveyed for use by at-risk western toads in a project led by Ecologic Consulting with funding from the FWCP. Thirty toads were tracked at four sites, prompting an amphibian restoration framework and management guide.
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
Each FWCP region prepares an annual report that includes a financial overview and a summary of project results.
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