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(cover photo: Boya Lake / Destination BC)
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Responsible Recreation: Fido can’t always be free
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Why dog-leashing rules are important, for you and your pup. Dogs are part of our families and it’s completely normal to include them on a day hike or a family camping trip. However, it is important to remember to keep your dog on a leash while visiting BC Parks. Leashing your dog protects you, them,…
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Habitat Enhancement for Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterflies on Helliwell and Denman Island
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Boosting Butterfly Numbers in Helliwell The number of Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies, a critically endangered species, in Helliwell Provincial Park, rose significantly last spring when nearly 1,300 caterpillars, reared at the Greater Vancouver Zoo by Wildlife Preservation Canada staff, were gently placed in the park by the Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly Recovery Project Team. This follows the…
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Bracing for More Change: Climate Risks and BC’s Parks and Protected Areas
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The historic heatwave of late June/early July has brought the realities of climate change home to British Columbians. Sudden deaths, the loss of a community, wildfires, loss of flora and fauna, and impacts to agricultural and shellfish sectors, the list is long making it difficult to grasp our unknown future with a new and dangerous…
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Become a citizen scientist today!
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With the weather getting warmer, it’s time to get outside and explore the nature surrounding us. BC Parks’ iNaturalist (iNat) project has over 300,000 observations! In 2020, the project collected 53% of the total observations since the launch in January 2019. In addition to increasing the number of observations in parks, we are looking to broaden…
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Assessing conservation in the Garibaldi Complex
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Context While we continue to weather the COVID- 19 pandemic, it’s never been clearer that our parks are critical to carefully manage and protect as places that sustain us and provide important connections to nature. At the same time, there is growing concern about the effectiveness of protected areas in meeting objectives such as biodiversity…
