The Province and the Houston Snowmobile Club signed a stewardship management agreement today to protect caribou in the Skeena Region. 

Applications for funding in the fourth intake of the BC Rural Dividend program will be accepted Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, 2017, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Doug Donaldson announced today.

Public comment is invited until Jan. 15, 2018, on a proposal to increase the amount of Coastal Douglas-fir ecosystem protected on southeastern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.

One of British Columbia’s most threatened wildlife species will get additional protection from predators this spring with the installation of a “maternal pen” on conservation lands owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

The Province is taking action to protect big game wildlife in portions of the Kootenay Region that were severely affected by wildfires this past summer.

The B.C. government is providing up to $100,000 to local governments and First Nations communities to help fund urban deer management projects under the 2017-18 Provincial Urban Deer Cost-share Program.

To improve service, the application for new park use permits through BC Parks will be going online, making it easier to access.