West Vancouver Nature Watch and News (WVNN.org) is a blog about watching and working to protect our beautiful natural environment. It came about from a love of the beautiful natural environment and wildlife habitat of West Vancouver and a concern for the growing challenges to it: everything from development to awareness and climate change. We may not be able to do anything directly about the plight of the North Atlantic right whales on the east coast becoming extinct from boat strikes, or the melting artic sea ice, or any number of other environmental crisis’, but we can do something about our own back yard. What are those things that we can do?
This blog gathers together and share environmental information and news specific to West Vancouver’s (and the north shore generally) particular trees, creeks, fish habitat, foreshore and wildlife, and the challenges they currently face so that we can not only keep watch, but work to protect them. I am not an environmental expert of any kind, but have been educating myself sifting through expert materials applicable to West Vancouver’s natural environment. This blog is a collection of some of that material which will be added to these initial posts over time.
It is also a bit of a lament of what we, and especially future generations of WV, have lost and are in the process of losing if we don’t look after our own backyard. The nature photography of Ambleside-Dundarave is from up to seven short years ago. There is hope for a return of our natural envrionment.
This blog takes no ad revenue or revenue of any kind. It is a collection of educational content and nature news found online applicable to West Vancouver in particular, but also the north shore generally, that it hopes you find helpful in looking after our own backyard. It began in January 2025, and will continue to be filled out over time with regular updates.