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Earth Day Beach Cleanups & Art Challenge!

Join the Friends of Kootenay Lake for our Earth Day Weekend Beach Cleanups! Feel good about giving a little love to your lake on Earth Day, we will be combing the beach picking up trash. This is a free, fun event - snacks, refreshments, and...

The West Kootenay EcoSociety’s Earth Day Parade

Baker Street Baker Street, Nelson, BC, Canada

Together with the Nelson Interfaith Climate Action Collaborative, the EcoSociety is bringing you an Earth Day parade; the opportunity for us to get together as a community and celebrate living green. On Sunday April 22, we are inviting the whole community to participate in a...

Webinar: A Water Sustainability Fund for BC

Online

A Water Sustainability Fund for BC: Investing in collaborative solutions to advance British Columbia’s freshwater future, our health, our economy and the success of our communities. Join Coree Tull and Megan Peloso from the Canadian Freshwater Alliance to learn more about opportunities for sustainable freshwater...

CBEEN Environmental Educator’s Award Nominations

Online

CBEEN’s Awards of Excellence recognizes educators who demonstrate excellence in environmental education in the Canadian Columbia Basin. Nominations close April 30. Nominees must reside within the Columbia Basin region. Recipients will be notified by the end of May, and recognized at the Canadian Environmental Education Conference on October...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Managing Health of Fish and Wildlife Conference

Kimberly Conference Centre 290 North Star Blvd., Kimberly, British Columbia, Canada

The expanding footprint of humans increasingly alters the complex dynamics of wildlife health and disease, which can threaten wildlife populations. An unprecedented rate of emergence and re-emergence of infectious disease has been enabled via transport of organisms, environmental degradation, and by other factors that compromise...

BCWF Wetlands Education Program

2018 Wetland Workshops Announced 2017 was another great year for the BCWF Wetlands Education Program. 353 people were educated through a workshop and an additional 1576 through outreach at other events. For more information on our 2017 events, read our 2018 Wetlands Update by clicking here. As...

Coyote Mentoring Workshop

Fernie Fernia, British Columbia, Canada

Coyote Mentoring is a powerful nature-based educational model that fosters a deep connection with the natural world.  Focusing on play, storytelling and nature crafts, Coyote Mentoring is an amazing way of getting both children and adults to learn…without knowing it. This workshop will give you:...

Work with Waterlution: Deadline May 6th

Online

A long-term volunteer leadership opportunity with Waterlution. Waterlution is seeking 15-20 young leaders (aged 16-30 who live in Canada) to join us (remotely) from May 2018-March 2019 to support our new program the Great Canoe Journey program and the Great Waters Challenge program (return to British Columbia by popular...

BCWF: Map Our Marshes Workshop

Salmo Valley Youth Community Centre 206 Seventh St, Salmo, British Columbia, Canada

The BC Wildlife Federation's Wetlands Education Program presents Map our Marshes, a free public workshop. Wetlands can filter water, mitigate flooding, and provide critical habitat to hundreds of species. Unfortunately, wetlands are disappearing at an alarming rate and need our protection. Come join us to learn about the...

Online Wetland Design Course

Online

  Wetland Design is a graduate-level, online class taught by Dr. Tom Biebighauser through the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering that shows how to design and build naturally appearing and functioning wetlands. The detailed lessons clearly explain the values of wetlands, how wetlands...

Fishes of British Columbia Identification Course with a focus on the Columbia River Basin

Okanagan College 1401 1 St W, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

The fresh waters of the world house spectacular diversity of freshwater fishes, accounting for over 40% of all described taxa in less than 0.01% of aquatic habitat by surface area. British Columbia has a relatively small number of described native species (69), yet contains a considerable...

The Hidden Life of the Forest, Suzanne Simard, Ph.D.

Nelson United Church 602 Silica St, Nelson, BC, Canada

Join Mt. Willet Wilderness Forever and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative in hosting Dr. Suzanne Simard for an evening presentation on the Douglas fir trees that grow in the inland rainforests of British Columbia. During her talk, The Hidden Life of the Forest, Dr. Simard...