Laskeek Bay, Be a part of our future!

This year LBCS celebrated 20-years of "Citizen Science" programming in Laskeek Bay, Haida Gwaii. You can catch up on all our work by exploring our website. We are very proud of our achievements to date and are immensely grateful for past enthusiasm and support from our local communities, and project participants. Looking to the next 20 years, your help again would be sincerely appreciated.

The challenges of keeping an organization like ours running are greater than ever. Dramatic changes in funding availability, plus major funding cuts, have prompted a new innovative approach to keep our operations going. We are looking to the future and see a great opportunity for you to become involved by contributing to an annual funding base. You can make a contribution to support ongoing environmental education, research and monitoring programs in Laskeek Bay.

We urge you to make a donation to LBCS TODAY! As we are a registered charity we are happy to issue a tax receipt for all donations. Donations over $200 will receive a gift in the mail and will become a "Friend of Laskeek Bay"! "Friends" will receive semi-annual updates , and will be an active and critical part of our next 20 years.

Making a donation to Laskeek Bay Conservation Society has never been easier!

1. Here on our website: Select "DONATE NOW" and easily make a onetime, or repeat donation using your credit card.
2. Internet Banking: Credit Union members in BC can go to the "Pay Bills" tab and select us under the add "Payee" vendor list. Register your full name as your "Account Number."
3. By Cheque: Mail to- Laskeek Bay Conservation Society, Box 867 Queen Charlotte, BC. V0T 1S0

We thank you in advance for any donation you are able to make, and look forward to our future together.

Yours Sincerely,

Keith Moore, Director

Christine Pansino, Executive Director

Laskeek Bay Conservation Society

Laskeek Bay Conservation Society (LBCS) has been active in conservation work in the Queen Charlotte Island archipelago for 20 years.  We provide volunteer and educational opportunities for people to help conserve the marine and terrestrial ecosystems in and around Laskeek Bay.

LBCS’s field research station on East Limestone Island allows visitors and local students to gain hands-on biological research experience in a wilderness setting.  We collect data on seabirds, with our main focus on the Ancient Murrelet, a small seabird listed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as of “Special Concern” – meaning they have certain characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events. Research methods are taught to volunteers and students by two field biologists and our work is guided by a Science Advisory Committee, headed by world-renowned seabird biologist Tony Gaston.  Our data is published annually; the LBCS science reports are available in pdf format from this website. LBCS also monitors other seabirds and shorebirds, marine mammals, cavity nesting birds and we keep an  inventory of plants on East Limestone Island.  The field research station is active from May through July each year but we also have an office in the village of Queen Charlotte which is open year-round.

LBCS is currently working with the new Haida Gwaii Musuem at Qay’llnagaay Heritage Centre, Skidegate to complete a hydrophone project so that visitors to the museum will be able to hear the sounds of sea life, such as the migrating grey whales in the Skidegate Inlet. We are also working on a nest box project that will film pigeon guillemot seabirds as they nest along the shoreline.

Laskeek Bay Conservation Society runs several programs at their field camp on Limestone Island. The overall aim of the Publications Research Program is to provide long-term information on the biology and ecology of Haida Gwaii ecosystems with a focus on monitoring Ancient Murrelets. Research activities also include marine bird and marine mammal population monitoring, studies of intertidal invertebrates, plants and forest birds and the impact of introduced mammals on island ecosystems.

 

LBCS MISSION STATEMENT

1. To undertake and support research and long term monitoring of wildlife populations of the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of Haida Gwaii, especially the Laskeek Bay area.
2. To provide opportunities for non-scientists, especially students and local residents of Haida Gwaii, to participate as volunteers in our field programs, and to offer training to impart necessary field research skills.
3. To promote better understanding of the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of Haida Gwaii, especially the Laskeek Bay area, by providing information to youth, local residents and to the public in general, in the form of publications, meetings and exhibits.
4. To promote the conservation of native species and to develop public awareness of the changes caused by introduced species to Haida Gwaii.
5. To support and assist other programs aimed at providing better knowledge, management and conservation of ecosystems in Haida Gwaii.

Take a Virtual Tour of the LBCS research camp at East Limestone Island