Solid Effort

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.

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.

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.

Non-profit community group was formed in 1999 to preserve and restore the health of the Hunter River Watershed in North Central Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. We focus on creating a sustainable future for the local community through the protection and preservation of our waterways and the native flora and fauna.

MTRI is a non-profit co-operative with a mandate to promote, conserve and sustain biodiversity in Kespukwitk (southwestern Nova Scotia) and beyond. Our vision is prosperous communities where forests and aquatic ecosystems are healthy, connected and where species are not at risk. MTRI operates a research station near Kejimkujik National Park.

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative is a collection of highly qualified people within a cross-Canada network of partners and collaborators dedicated to wildlife health. Our Cooperative includes internationally renowned wildlife disease diagnosticians and researchers, experts in population health, skilled educators and experienced policy advisors. The CWHC is dedicated to generating knowledge needed to assess and manage wildlife health and working with others to ensure that knowledge gets put to use in a timely fashion. CCC Participant there was assisting in a bat research project studying the population on PEI.

The Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO designated and internationally recognized unique region of natural and cultural heritage, spanning the 5 counties of Annapolis, Digby, Yarmouth, Shelburne and Queens. One of only 16 in Canada. Our Participants assisted the Biosphere in mapping out the natural trails and developing programming to highlight the reserve.