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Updates from the Field a New Role for a New Noah 2 Buzzworthy News from Bee Team 4 Conservation Breeding to the Rescue 6 Caring for Hundreds of Hatchlings 8 FALL 2018 ON THE EDGE In This Issue: Updates from the field A new role for a New Noah 2 Buzzworthy news from bee team 4 Conservation breeding to the rescue 6 Caring for hundreds of hatchlings 8 No love for the checkerspot 9 A shrike biologist’s toolkit 10 Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly Euphydryas editha taylori Marvelous Mauritius 11 Endangered in Canada Q: You’ve spent quite a bit of time abroad, with Q: Lastly, if there is one extinct animal that you could bring 2 ON THE EDGE | Fall 2018 conservation organisations like the Durrell Wildlife back with the wave of a magicON THEwand, EDGE what | Fallwould 2018 it be? 3 Conservation Trust in Madagascar, the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. What LW: I don’t think I can choose just one. Even though there motivated you to return to Canada in 2016 and to rejoin are some spectacular creatures that would be amazing to see, Wildlife Preservation Canada? like the elephant bird from Madagascar or the Tasmanian tiger, I would want species back that have disappeared from LW: Wildlife Preservation Canada is really the only the landscape around us here in North America. I wish I lived organisation here in Canada that has the same vision as some in a world that still had ivory-billed woodpeckers, great auks, of these previous organisations I’ve worked with overseas passenger pigeons, Labrador ducks, and sea mink. If I had where a recovery program integrates wild population research, that magic wand I would bring back those species that we Canada’s 7th New Noah conservation breeding and reintroductions across multiple used to be able to see here not that long ago. I feel like the projects across Canada. I followed the work over the years world around us is diminished because they are gone. There returns in new role while I was away and admired how the projects remained very is a generational amnesia that happens where we forget what hands-on with a focus on developing methods for endangered used to be here and will let a species disappear from our own By Bridget Stutchbury species recovery. The ability to develop conservation backyard because it can still be found elsewhere and, while it is techniques here that can then have a much wider North just my opinion, I think that is wrong, especially for a country American and global impact is incredibly exciting. Once we This October, Wildlife Preservation Canada welcomed Lance Woolaver as wealthy as Canada. We have to take a stand and say, ‘no figure out how best to recover migratory songbirds, or bumble Jr. into the executive director role following the retirement of previous more’. We can do that, and we are doing that, without magic. bees, or temperate snakes, these are experiences that can be executive director Randal Heide. Lance may be new to this job, but We are doing this with hard work, dedication, and a desire to applied to other recovery projects across Canada and around he has a long history with Wildlife Preservation Canada, dating back make sure that no more species disappear on our watch. the world. Another thing to keep in mind is that species to 1997 when he travelled to Mauritius for conservation training as recovery is a catalyst for restoring and protecting habitats Canada’s 7th New Noah. and for engaging local communities – Wildlife Preservation Wildlife Preservation Canada president, Bridget Stutchbury, sat down Canada does a lot of that by default already. Even though Quick facts about Lance we focus our message around species, it isn’t simply putting with Lance to talk about the winding road that brought him to this Birthplace: Wolfville, Nova Scotia animals out there and leaving it at that. I enjoy working for an point as executive director, and the path that he sees forward for the Current residence: Guelph, Ontario with his wife and two sons organisation that is part of a larger network of complementary organization and endangered species in Canada. Education: BSc at Dalhousie University, MSc at Acadia University, PhD at organisations working together for a common goal. York University Previous job: Seven years as Head of Species Conservation and Research Q: Lance, you just celebrated the 20th anniversary since your experience as New Noah. Tell us about why, as a young Q: What challenges does Wildlife Preservation Canada still for Durrell’s Madagascar Programme. biologist, you decided to apply to work on endangered species so far away from Canada? face, and what ideas do you have to overcome them? Favourite hobby? I love watching hockey, so it’s great to be back in LW: I first started reading Gerald Durrell books and had been a member of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since I was LW: We are very fortunate that Canadians in general care Canada! Canoeing is my favourite way of restoring my internal battery. nine. As far back as I can remember I had dreamed of working for Durrell, saving endangered species from extinction. It was the about wildlife. Most of us have grown up in areas with access to wild places and even within our cities there are Canada’s New Noah opportunity that opened doors for me and allowed my dream to come true. I was an undergrad at Dalhousie Favourite holiday location? Difficult to choose but our best holiday opportunities to interact with urban wildlife. Canadians University when I first saw the advertisement for the program and I knew I had to apply or I would always regret it. So, the decision ever was to Cairo where we saw Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum, therefore see wildlife as part of our heritage and genuinely to apply to work overseas with endangered species was very much an emotional one stemming from my childhood dreams. I was visited the pyramids on camel back and went inside the centre of the do not want species to disappear. We are also a very wealthy thrilled when I was chosen for an interview. At that point I didn’t expect I had much of a chance of being chosen as a New Noah. great pyramid of Giza. I was able to go around dressed like Indiana Jones country by global standards and are fortunate to have resources I was excited just to have an opportunity to meet the other interview candidates, other young people that felt the same way I did and fortunately my kids were still young enough to think that was cool. about endangered species conservation. When I was told I had been chosen, it was a surreal moment of happiness that I will never that can be used to ensure that Canadian biodiversity does not forget. Looking back now it was one of the most significant and best decisions of my life. decline. That being said, Canadians often don’t know which Favourite animal? At the moment I have to say our Newfoundland dog organisation they should turn to and if their support is even Malala as she sits at my feet during most of my work days at home. We Q: What was your background in field work before applying to be a New Noah? going to make a difference. This is both an opportunity and adopted her as a puppy when we were living in Madagascar, from the a challenge for Wildlife Preservation Canada. We need to get only NF dog family in the entire country and we brought her back to LW: I was fortunate to have been working on a range of contracts with different types of wildlife, as a field technician and our message out to more Canadians so that people know we Canada with us. In terms of ‘non-pets’ it would be elephants as they instill biologist for the provincial wildlife division in Nova Scotia which also led to field work with the Canadian Wildlife Service in are an organization that has the unique skills and dedicated a feeling of awe in me every time I’ve been lucky enough to see one. Newfoundland. I couldn’t believe that I was actually being paid to go out and visit wild places and work with animals in the field. people to keep species from disappearing from our country. This developed into a Master’s thesis at Acadia University where I researched the nesting ecology of common eider ducks, visiting Piece of gear you always take into the field? In the tropics it is a rain breathtaking, isolated offshore islands and seabird colonies as part of my daily field work. I already had a fairly extensive amount poncho and here in Canada it is mosquito repellant! In both places it is a of wildlife related work experience managing field teams in challenging isolated environments when I applied to be a New Noah. copy J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings as one never knows when you will At the same time, I had just finished my MSc so I had a good mix of academic and practical experience, and along with just being be delayed during field work and have time on your hands. open to adventure, this helped me enjoy the New Noah experience to the fullest. Q: You seem to be drawn to recovery programs with birds, whether it’s the eastern loggerhead shrike in Canada, or the Ridgway’s hawk in Dominican Republic. What is it about bird conservation that pulls you in? LW: I’ve been lucky again to have worked with a wide variety of animals from tortoises and turtles, lemurs and mongoose, so my work is not always limited to birds although it does seem that working with endangered birds has been a major career theme so far.
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