Blue Bird Days

During Stage 2, members of this group spend three months in individual field learning placements with partners in conservation across Canada. Learn more about their placements below.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is the nation’s leading not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. We are a private, non-profit group that partners with individuals, corporations, foundations, Indigenous communities, and governments at all levels to protect Canada’s most important natural areas, through securement and the long-term stewardship of our properties.

Cowichan Green Community Society, (CGC) is a non-profit organization that has been focusing on environmental sustainability in the Cowichan Region since March 2004. CGC’s mandate is to improve food security by developing strong relationships with local food producers, increasing capacity for local food production (both urban and rural), and empowering people with the knowledge, skills and resources they need to feed their community. The Resiliency Project is a CGC project launched in 2019, focused on creating native meadows throughout the community, and educating the public on pollinator habitat as an essential part of the local food system, and a healthy local ecology.

Our team is comprised of a group of biologists and falconers on Vancouver Island, who created The Raptors to bring people closer to birds of prey. Our goal is to educate, illuminate and encourage a sense of personal responsibility for the future of these essential creatures we share the planet with.

The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation is a non-profit, non-government, charitable organization of over 32,000 members in 125 branches across Saskatchewan representing every walk of life. Per capita, we are the largest wildlife conservation organization of its kind in the world. Established in 1929, the SWF has become an acknowledged leader in the conservation field.

Admitting over 6,000 patients per year, the Wildlife Rescue Association of BC is the highest admission wildlife rehabilitation centre in western Canada. WRA runs a wildlife hospital and helpline located on a single site at the edge of Burnaby Lake. Currently the centre accepts only birds and bats to the facility and is the only centre in BC’s Lower Mainland to rehabilitate bats. The facility is not a sanctuary, the goal is always to release animals back into the wild, and to educate the public on how to live in harmony with urban wildlife.