Under the BC Rural Dividend Program special circumstances provision, the Government of British Columbia is providing $500,000 to the City of Merritt, Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing $498,885 to the Village of Port Alice, Claire Trevena, MLA for North Island announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing $607,560 for two projects in Lytton, Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing $490,000 to the Ashcroft Indian Band for two projects, Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing $571,952 for three projects in the Central Coast Regional District, Jennifer Rice, MLA for North Coast, announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing $100,000 to the Invasive Species Council of BC (ISCBC), Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, announced today.

Under the BC Rural Dividend Program, the Government of British Columbia is providing more than $2 million to fund 20 projects for community organizations and First Nations in wildfire-impacted communities in the Cariboo Region, Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, announced today.

The Province is transferring 185 hectares of Crown land in the Tete Jaune Cache and Valemount areas to the Simpcw First Nation, as part of accommodation for the Valemount Glacier Destination resort approval, Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Minister Doug Donaldson has announced.

Rabbit owners in the Nanaimo area are asked to take precautions after numerous dead feral rabbits were found on the campus of Vancouver Island University, and in the Rotary Bowl area.

The B.C. government is protecting more wildlife habitat areas for the northern goshawk and marbled murrelet to help populations of these birds recover, Doug Donaldson, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, and George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, announced today.