About Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia
HOUSE POSTS by TSLEIL-WAUTUTH CARVER SKOKAYLEM ZACHARY GEORGE AT THE CORRIGAN NATURE HOUSE (PHOTO BY LIANNE PAYNE)
Osprey by Jordan Gallie
(Tsleil-Waututh)
Adjacent to Maplewood Flats is the Tsleil-Waututh Nation community and village site. The mudflats provided food security for the TWN and were managed for fish, shellfish, waterfowl, and other resources. Prior to settler contact and industrialization, the region featured contiguous mudflats across Burrard Inlet.Â
This richness of historic and current TWN presence and cultural practices is little known in the broader community.
Wild Bird Trust of BC is working to reflect and acknowledge TWN culture and to collaboratively develop opportunities for TWN members to participate in the stewardship of Maplewood Flats. After 27 years, the Wild Bird Trust of BC (WBT) is emerging as a forward-thinking conservation organisation committed to reconciliation and habitat restoration in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet.
Since Maplewood Flats was designated as a Conservation Area in 1993, the site has been managed by the Wild Bird Trust (WBT), a non-profit charitable organization. The establishment of the Conservation Area protected the land from development and preserving it for bird and wildlife use, but may have furthered the exclusion of the Tsleil-Waututh community.
Motion adopted by the WBT Board of Directors
Habitat and Cultural Use Plan
Reports
Board of Directors
Irwin Oostindie
President
president@wildbirdtrust.org
Jude Grass
Vice President
Paul Hundal
Secretary
policy@wildbirdtrust.org
Kevin M. Bell
Director-at-Large
Taylor Boisjoli
director-at-large
Thomas Flower
director-at-large
Gloria Pavez
Treasurer
finance@wildbirdtrust.org
Donna Clark
director-at-large (programs)
programs@wildbirdtrust.org
Kevin M. Bell
director-at-large
Christine George
director-at-large
Steven Hill
director-at-large
D'arcy Hutton
director-at-large
John Preissl
director-at-large
Carleen Thomas
director-at-large
Maureen Thomas
director-at-large
Staff
Irwin Oostindie
Planning director
planning@wildbirdtrust.org
Lianne Payne
operations manager
operations@wildbirdtrust.org
Alejandro Paredes-Borjas
Site & restoration manager
ed@wildbirdtrust.org
Honey Mae Caffin
Communications manager
communications@wildbirdtrust.org
Elsie Webb
Administrator
admin@wildbirdtrust.org
Cease Wyss
resident ethnobotanist & plant nursery social enterprise consultant
Senawila Wyss
Programs coordinator
programs@wildbirdtrust.org
Rachel Baumann
Exhibits coordinator
programs@wildbirdtrust.org
Erin Kendall
nursery growth Manager
nursery@wildbirdtrust.org
Kristen Munk
Communcations coordinator
commscoordinator@wildbirdtrust.org
Charlotte Heckel
Plant nursery operations coordinator
jonas@wildbirdtrust.org
Nova Sharma Lamichane
Extern (Columbia College)
Marisa Bischoff
assistant site Manager
volunteer@wildbirdtrust.org
Braela Kwan
staff writer, Wingspan managing editor
wingspan@wildbirdtrust.org
Nicole Preissl
Digital Communications coordinator
webcomms@wildbirdtrust.org
Committees
Chloe Hartley
Habitat committee co-chair
habitat@wildbirdtrust.org
Irwin Oostindie
Habitat committe co-chair
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