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News and Updates

Board and Staff

Incoming Summer Staff: Welcome Gwen!

We’re very excited to be welcoming in a new Restoration Technician. Gwen Janz will be working with the Conservancy from May through the summer, helping out with a wide variety of programs including our restoration projects and the community bat program. If you see Gwen out and about, be sure Read more…

By Katie Kushneryk, 3 weeksApril 29, 2022 ago
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News and Updates

Annual General Meeting April 23

Please join us at our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 1:30 pm at the Agricultural Hall. Here is the agenda: Here is a summary of our 2021 financial statement: Here are the draft minutes from last year’s AGM, to be approved at this meeting:

By Don Enright, 1 monthApril 19, 2022 ago
Board and Staff

Directors Wanted

Are you passionate about nature and education? Do you have experience or interest in helping an organization meet its potential?  The Mayne Island Conservancy is seeking candidates for our 2022 Board of Directors. Our Mission: to work with the community to conserve the ecology of Mayne Island and its surrounding water Read more…

By Malcolm Inglis, 2 monthsMarch 14, 2022 ago
Board and Staff

Where are they now? Past Summer Staff

Each year, the Mayne Island Conservancy is fortunate to host incredible, motivated, and capable summer staff. Community members who have volunteered and worked alongside past staff might wonder occasionally, where are they now? We’ve checked in with a handful of them to see where they’ve landed, and have had the Read more…

By Katie Kushneryk, 4 monthsJanuary 27, 2022 ago
Board and Staff

Call for Staff Housing

Hello, my name is Gwen Janz. I’m excited to be working with the Mayne Island Conservancy this summer and am looking for a place to call home from May 1st until August 31st. I know that housing is limited, but I am open to all sorts of living arrangements. Ideally, Read more…

By Rob Underhill, 4 monthsJanuary 27, 2022 ago
Job Opportunities

We are hiring!

The posting is now closed. Thank you to those who submitted applications. We will be contacting shortlisted candidates on or before Friday January 14th. The Mayne Island Conservancy is looking for one highly motivated, enthusiastic person to fill a 16-week, temporary position on Mayne Island as an Ecosystems Technician from Read more…

By Rob Underhill, 5 monthsDecember 22, 2021 ago
News and Updates

A Forestry Award for Stephanie Wilford

Former Mayne Island Conservancy’s Summer Intern receives prestigious recognition On October 6th 2021, Stephanie Wilford (Bachelor of Science Honours, Forest Ecology and Management, 2020) current PhD student (and former member of the Mayne Island Conservancy’s Summer Intern Program) received the Schlich Memorial Prize from the Canadian Institute of Forestry / Institut forestier Read more…

By Don Enright, 6 monthsNovember 24, 2021 ago
Board and Staff

Notes from our Annual General Meeting

On August 15 of this year, the Conservancy held its annual general meeting in Miners’ Bay Park.  In spite of the sunny weather, the meeting was fairly sparsely attended compared to the previous year, presumably mainly due to the fatigue on the ongoing pandemic.  We reported on the previous year’s activities, elected Read more…

By Malcolm Inglis, 8 monthsOctober 7, 2021 ago
Board and Staff

Board and Staff 2022

Board of Directors Malcolm Inglis – President A long-time visitor to Mayne Island, Malcolm retired here in 2010 from a long and varied career in information technology, having worked in the private sector and at all levels of government. On Mayne, Malcolm gets to indulge his love of the natural Read more…

By Don Enright, 8 monthsOctober 5, 2021 ago
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News and Updates

Simplifying Our Memberships

At the upcoming Annual General Meeting on August 15, we will propose a change in our bylaws to allow us to simplify our membership structure. Based on feedback from our members and our volunteers, we propose dropping the Family and Child membership level. Because the membership categories are included in Read more…

By Don Enright, 10 monthsJuly 23, 2021 ago

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