Insect Pollinator Monitoring Underway
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Researcher Elizabeth Elle and her students monitoring insect pollinators in a Victoria backyard. SFU Student Julie Wray (right) is working with local residents hosting her backyard insect monitoring stations. Contact Julie for more info or if you are interested in volunteering or have space for a monitoring station: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Elizabeth Elle's has more information on insect pillinator diversity on her website here.
Two seperate days this month, we were fortunate enough to have a large group of students from Landsdown Middle School come help us restory the Garry Oak meadows at the Matson Conservation Area. They were an enthusiastic group lead by their teacher Mme.Couture and were keen to not only pull invasive species but to learn about the creatures and various plant life that exists in a Garry Oak Meadow. It is an important time of year to get rid of the ivy and these students were able to make a big difference. It is important to never undersestimate the power of youth, their energy and tenacity when it came to pulling ivy and blackberry was great to see. Lansdowne Middle School also has a native plant garden on their property and are a great example and leader in terms of a school taking charge and helping to shape ecosystems at their school and abroad.
We are proud to announce that we have recently been awarded a 2012 Land Trust Award - Best Program (non-land) for our 2011 Conservation Connection Forum. We cannot be happier receiving this award for an event that we put so much time and effort into to ensure that all conservation groups attending leave the event feeling inspired and educated on a new topic. The 2011 forum was a highlight for HAT as we had an amazing group of facilitators and workshop gurus during the day and then capped it off with an uplifting speech from the one and only Bob McDonald. You can read more about Conservation Connection 
HAT and the Nature Conservancy of Canada have worked together for many years to create conservation legacies including the Matson Lands in 2004. NCC holds and monitors the covenant on this HAT property which is a demonstration site for urban habitat management. Enjoying May’s spectacular wildflower blooms, NCC staff Katy Fulton and intern Hailey O’Neill review conservation covenant monitoring procedures at Matson’s nationally-significant harbourside oak meadows.