by Wildlife Preservation Canada | May 19, 2018 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife |
Spring has sprung in British Columbia! While Mother Nature may have played a joke on us on April 1st by sending a blanket of snow, the animals were still on the move and so were we, here at the Fraser Valley Wetland Wildlife program. The Oregon spotted frog...
by Andrea Gielens | Jan 29, 2018 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Oregon Spotted Frog |
In our Oregon spotted frog program we are not strangers to odd frog occurrences. We have in the past had a frog with an extra leg (named “kickstand”) and have had a tadpole with no eyes (“blinky”). Sometimes we have a frog that is lacking...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Dec 6, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Freshwater Turtles, Western Painted Turtle |
The coastal western painted turtle is the only native pond turtle left in southeast B.C. and is critically endangered. Wildlife Preservation Canada is working in partnership with the Greater Vancouver Zoo to save the species by artificially incubating eggs,...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Nov 6, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Western Painted Turtle |
The goal of the Fraser Valley Wetlands program in British Columbia is to conserve the diversity and functionality of wetlands by focusing on two endangered species and their associated habitats; the western painted turtle and the Oregon spotted frog. Wildlife...
by B.C. Wetlands Species Recovery | Sep 9, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, LoyaltyOne, Taylor's Checkerspot, Western Painted Turtle |
Our first western painted turtles hatched in the specially designed incubators here at the Greater Vancouver Zoo on July 24th and we now have a whopping 80 little hatchlings kickin’ it in the barn as part of the Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife program to save...
by Andrea Gielens | Jul 28, 2017 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Freshwater Turtles, Western Painted Turtle |
In May through July the Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife team & I were busy in the field in the evenings collecting turtle eggs from the last remaining painted turtle population on the BC Coast. Teams of work study students and myself would brave the mosquitoes...
