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STAGE
1: A provincial
guide featuring instructions and illustrations for designing
wildlife habitat appropriate to your particular site, building a pond,
erecting bird and bat houses, and much more! A Naturescape British
Columbia sign for your yard to demonstrate that you care
for wildlife habitat at home
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Naturescape British Columbia The Naturescape British Columbia program is about restoring, preserving, and enhancing wildlife habitat in our urban and rural landscapes throughout the province. It is a program for people who want to connect more closely with nature in their daily lives. The need for a program such as Naturescape British Columbia arose because of significant loss of wildlife habitat in the highly populated areas of the province. While only 6% of the land base in British Columbia is private land it is concentrated in habitat rich segments of the province, along river courses, valley bottoms, delta’s and shorelines, placing significant strain on the survival of the native plants and animals which reside there. These areas of exceptional biological richness are seriously threatened by urban sprawl and encroachment. We witness the destruction, degradation, and fragmentation of ecosystems each day in our communities. This destruction of habitat occurs each time long-established trees are removed from a neighborhood, when rural lots are subdivided, when housing developments are constructed - all of these changes reduce the amount of natural wildlife habitat available for our native plants and animals. However, we can reduce the damage caused by urbanization. Remaining segments of habitat can be preserved, damaged habitats can be restored, and lost habitat can be recreated over time. Naturescape British Columbia empowers private citizens to end the loss of habitat and to create green spaces for wild creatures in urban and rural communities. Imagine the transformation of urban and populated rural areas as private yards, and community areas are naturalized by you, neighbors, friends, and community groups. Habitat yards will link together and areas of wildlife habitat in adjacent neighbourhoods will become connected. Over the years, a patchwork quilt of wildlife habitat will extend across entire communities. Naturescape British Columbia's vision is: communities living in harmony with the natural environment; individuals empowered with the realization that they can make a difference; and an image of urban and rural areas covered with a dense patchwork quilt of wildlife habitat and corridors. General Funding Partners: Environment Canada
(Canadian Wildlife
Service) Naturescape British
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NATURESCAPE
Georgia Basin
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