In 2025 the Mayne Conservancy completed our 17th year of eelgrass extent monitoring. Around the shores of SḴŦAḴ | Mayne Island we monitor 15 sites, with an additional monitoring site in Grimmer Bay, S’DÁYES | North Pender Island. In 2025, we completed surveys at seven locations: Dinner Bay, Village Bay, Read more
With the completion of the 2024 field season, the Mayne Island Conservancy has now been monitoring bull kelp around the shores of SḴŦAḴ | Mayne Island for 15 years! This also marked the 6th year since the program expanded to include sites around Galiano, the Penders, and Saturna Island in Read more
Earlier this spring, a team of research technicians from the Hakai Institute (Hakai) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) made the trip over to Mayne Island to install a set of settlement plates in a rocky area of the intertidal zone. The site on Mayne Island is one of Read more
The 2023 field season marked the 14th year of bull kelp monitoring by the Mayne Island Conservancy, and the 5th year since the monitoring program expanded to include partners on other Southern Gulf Islands. This past season 33 volunteers and staff from five organizations spent 178 hours on the water. Read more
In December we bid a fond farewell to Alistair Marr-Paine, who worked with the Mayne Conservancy as an Ecosystems Technician since May of 2023. Alistair contributed to a broad range of projects while he was here. He applied his experiences as a kayak guide and avid surfer to our nearshore Read more
2022 marked the 13th year of eelgrass monitoring by the Mayne Island Conservancy. One year ago, in December of 2021, we reported a shocking decrease of 26% in the area covered by eelgrass since 2009. Through the spring and summer of 2022 our staff selected nine eelgrass beds to monitor, Read more