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Upcoming Events

Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society will be attending several community festivals over the summer to share our passion for wildlife preservation. We will have a booth featuring our exciting biofacts including skulls, furs and taxidermied birds for people to get a close up look at all these amazing animals, as well as other educational material. A generous donation from VanCity is greatly supporting these community outreach programs so we would like to say a great big THANK YOU to the 5066 Kingsway, Burnaby branch!

Be sure to come visit us at the following events:

Saturday, June 8, 9am – 2pm

Burnaby Environment Festival

Burnaby City Hall

Sunday, June 9, 10am – 3pm

World Oceans Day

Blackie Spit Park, Surrey

Nature Play Day

Saturday, June 15, 12 – 4pm

Prospect Point, Stanley Park, Vancouver

Sunday, June 16, 10am – 3pm

Family Fishing Day

Rice Lake, North Vancouver

Saturday, July 20

Illuminares Festival

Trout Lake Park, Vancouver

Sunday, July 28, 1030am – 3pm

International Bog Day

Burns Bog, Delta

OWL Open House

Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society, Delta

Sunday, Aug. 11

Delta Community Animal Expo,

Ladner Memorial Park, Delta

Saturday, Aug. 17

Quayside Boardwalk Festival

New Westminster Quay

Sunday, Aug. 18, 11am – 4pm

Richmond Raptor Festival

Terra Nova Rural Park, Richmond

Saturday, Aug 24 10am – 5pm

Stanley Park BioBlitz

Lumberman’s Arch, Stanley Park, Vancouver

Sunday, Sept. 8

Coho Festival

Ambleside Park, North Vancouver

If you are hosting an event you would like us to attend, please contact Carlo at outreach (at) northwestwildlife.com or 604-568-4907.

Say Hi to Carlo!

Carlo helping at one of our stewardship projects

Introducing Carlo, Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society's newest staff member. Carlo joined our team last week to help us reach out to even more people and communities throughout the province, helping them discover passion for wildlife and desire to preserve it.

Carlo is a BCIT Science student specializing in Ecological Restoration. He also has a great range of experience working with other great organizations like CPAWS, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Fraser River Discovery Centre and SPES. NWPS is so thrilled to have him join our team and spread his wealth of knowledge and experience in wildlife conservation and education with all of you!

As our Community Outreach Coordinator, Carlo will be representing NWPS at various events throughout the summer thanks to the federal government's generous grant through the Canada Summer Jobs program. Be sure to stay in touch to see when we'll be in your community. If you see us out, please come by and say hi! We have tons of super cool biofacts to check out like mounted raptors, bear skulls and more!


If you are hosting an event you would like us to attend, please contact Carlo at outreach (at) northwestwildlife.com or 604-568-4907. 

Come join us this Saturday, May 11^th! In partnership with Metro Vancouver, we will be planting 500+ trees at Centennial Beach in Boundary Bay Regional Park in Delta. If you are interested in taking part, please email execassistant@northwestwildlife.com. We still have a few spots remaining!

From our 25th Anniversary Tree Planting Event

As NWPS Communications Intern, Julie Whittet, concludes her internship with us last week, she reflects on her time spent working with our society. Read on below for a glimpse into her experience over the last six months.

Julie (left) helping coordinate our tree planting event last October

Last October, when I first interviewed to intern with Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society, I was keen to get some hands-on experience working with an environmental non-profit.  Not only did I gain that experience, helping NWPS get their messages into the media and out to the public, but I've also come away with a new appreciation for the everyday connections we have with wildlife.

Thanks to Darren Colello - NWPS' in-house expert of all things zoological – I have learned just how much biodiversity can be found locally, in and around Metro Vancouver.  It has been a real privilege to quiz Darren's encyclopedic knowledge of wildlife when working in the office:  Is it possible that the exotic cat I spotted in the bushes of my ravine was a lynx? Or, what was that strange speckled bird watching me eat my lunch on the patio at Whole Foods? Now, whenever I'm near a waterfront, I'm on the lookout for colourfully plumed blue-winged teals and the elegant silhouette of the great blue heron - and I can now proudly identify the families of house finches, juncos, and spotted towhees vying for their turn at my bird-feeder. 

During my time with Northwest I was able to share this enthusiasm with the broader public, at many events across the lower mainland.  I spoke with the campus community at the Langara College volunteer fair, I joined other preservation groups and local residents to learn about the annual return of spawning salmon at the Hyde Creek Salmon Festival, I even had a crash course in planting a first-stage forest for NWPS' 25^th Anniversary Celebration.  At each event I was impressed to find that people of all ages and from all backgrounds share a genuine curiosity about the welfare of our regional wildlife.

As a recent communications grad, I've been able to explore new ways of using words and images to engage citizens in the stewardship of our natural environment.  Following the lead of Kristine Krynitzki - NWPS' Executive Assistant – I learned that getting a message across is all about finding creative ways of connecting with people: through press releases, e-newsletters, updates on Facebook and blog posts like this one.  I couldn't have asked for a more rewarding internship, and will miss having such a kind and talented team to work with.

Thanks to everyone at Northwest for giving me this unique opportunity to help preserve the wild places that make living in B.C. so special.

 

All the best,

 

Julie

This Valentine’s Day, celebrate happy, healthy relationships and your commitment to Canada’s wonderful wildlife by making a donation in your loved one's name to Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society.

Jacqueline Crivillo, Your Shot, National Geographic 

While they won’t celebrate Valentine’s Day with a card and flowers, beavers take this time of the year to find that special someone to call their own. Once they mate, these family-oriented creatures will make a home together. Grey wolves show their love by sticking together in packs, working as a team to defend their territory, find food and raise their pups. A pair of Canada geese will defend and raise their young together after mating, year after year. Much like with humans, the hormone oxytocin plays a role in helping prairie voles bond. Once a bond is formed, it is unbreakable for the remainder of these small mammals’ lives. 

Animals love too, just like you.

There's no better time to show your love for all things wild. Donate today.

Come plant some trees with us!

As Northwest Wildlife Preservation Society continues to grow as an organization, so to do we want the natural environments that surround us to. So, in honour of our 25th anniversary, we will be planting 2500 trees and shrubs generously donated by Metro Vancouver and we would love for you to come out, lend a hand and share in this extraordinary milestone with us as we couldn't have done it without all of you! 

Come by the Serpentine Fields entrance at Tynehead Regional Park in Surrey between 10am - 2pm (rain or shine!) for a fun-filled day of celebration, group tree planting, wildlife education displays, a delicious barbeque lunch and more! Everything at this family event is free of charge so come one, come all, even Fido too! This is a pet-friendly event so feel free to bring your dogs and let them roam free in the adjacent off-leash dog area. 

A donation page has been set up for the symbolic adoption of each tree with all proceeds going directly to bring free environmental education programs to inner-city schoolchildren throughout BC. If you're able, please give generously at http://www.canadahelps.org/GivingPages/GivingPage.aspx?gpID=20271 

For directions to the Serpentine Fields entrance please see http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/maps/Maps/Tyneheadmap.pdf 

Free parking is available at the Serpentine Fields entrance

The Serpentine Fields park entrance is also transit accessible with a little bit of walking. For directions, please call Translink at 604-953-3333. From Surrey Central SkyTrain station, you can catch the #337 "Fraser Heights" bus to 168 St at 104 Ave. From there, walk south on 168 St. to the pedestrian overpass. Cross the overpass and you will find us set up on the other side of it inside the park. 

For more info, please email Kristine at mailto:execassistant@northwestwildlife.com or call 604-568-4907