WILDLIFE AND PEOPLE LIVING IN COMMUNITY
New!
Meet Our Neighbours! Laura’s Blog
Starting February 2nd, 2024
-
Living in Cougar Country
Cougars are one of the apex specie calling our area home. Learn how to co-exist with them to mitigate conflicts, protect your pets, farm animals and family.
-
BCW Winter 2024 Newsletter
Description goes here -
Emergency Contact List
Download for quick and easy reference.
Report your wildlife sightings
Report your wildlife sightings
The purpose of this multi year citizen research project is to reduce human-wildlife conflicts. We will do so by understanding who our wild neighbours are; where they live; and where they come and go.
Tips and Guides
-
Wildlife First Aid
What to do and who to call - a guide for our area. Injured and Orphaned Wildlife Response Guide 2023
A collaboration with Cochrane Ecological Institute.
-
How to Use Bear Spray
Carrying and knowing how to use bear may reduce your risk of injury if you encounter an aggressive bear or other wildlife. Using bear spray is always a last resort; do all you can to avoid a bear encounter in the first place.
-
Kitchen Scraps and Other Organic Waste
Rockyview County transfer site in Bragg Creek now accepts organic waste? Protect wildlife by disposing of your food scraps, pizza boxes, meat bones, compostable dishes and more. Site is open Wednesdays and Saturdays
-
Harm Reduction
Litter and garbage attract wildlife, creating conflicts with humans and causing harm to the animals. Animals can become sick, hurt, trapped and displaced or killed as a result of the potential threat they pose to humans.
-
Wildlife-vehicle collisions
Half of all collisions in Alberta involve wildlife.
-
Bear Prepared
How to protect yourself and the bears.
-
Mapping wildlife movements in our area
-
Banded Peak School Science project
-
Banded Peak School Art Project