Activity Schedule 2023

• Micro-Plastics Project Phase II: Ongoing

  • Post Doc Zeinab started work in November 2022 under supervision of Dr. Bendell from Simon Fraser University and Dr. Juan Jose Alava Saltos. Cooperation with Project Watershed to compare two estuaries Comox and Cowichan. Joint work with Canadian Wildlife Service, Simon Fraser University and UBC. Two year project. Workshop planned for April.

• Citizen Science Project Forage Fish Monitoring: Ongoing

  • Bill Heath spearheading the MABBRI project involving students from Cowichan Secondary School.

• Citizen Science Project Light Trap Dungeness crab larvae monitoring: Ongoing  

  • Bill Heath spearheading the HAKAI project.

• Citizen Science Project Bat Monitoring: Ongoing

  • Two-pronged project: Bernie Juurlink, Cliff Stainsby and Bill Heath spearheading scientific component, Goetz the awareness raising component involving other NGOs of Cowichan Valley. Symposium planned for May.

• Swallow Population Monitoring: Ongoing

• MOTUS migratory bird telemetry tracking jointly with Canadian Wildlife Service: Ongoing

• Lobbying for:

  • promoting green corridors Quamichan Lake-estuary, Somenos Marsh-estuary, South-facing slope of Mt. Tzouhalem

• Lobbying against:

  • inter-tidal log-boom storage

  • light pollution in the estuary

  • industrial effluent discharge into estuary