Member Directory

Emma Griggs is the Program Manager of Wildlife Forever at the BC Parks Foundation. Emma works closely with the WildCo lab as the Communications, Outreach and Engagement Coordinator, to bring a monthly newsletter, blog, and other...

Catharine Hanekom is a District Ecologist with Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, the Provincial Conservation Agency in the South African Province of KwaZulu Natal. Catharine uses camera traps extensively in protected areas for priority species...

Bill is a Carnivore Conservation Professional in Conservation Science Section of the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and a Research Associate at in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at UBC. He is...

Romane Hazette is an ethologist from Belgium who moved in Alberta in 2019. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology (University of Liège, Belgium) and a Master's degree in Ethology (University of Sorbonne Paris Nord, France). She is...

Doug Heard retired in 2015 from his job as a wildlife biologist with both the governments of the NWT and BC and is now an independent researcher with his company, Tithonus Wildlife Research and is an adjunct professor at the University of...

Mateen has worked as a wildlife technician and undergraduate researcher at the University of Montana with Dr. Mark Hebblewhite since 2016 on his long-term elk/predator project at the Ya Ha Tinda, Alberta. He has managed a previously...

Grant Hiebert is a founder of Wild Eyes Monitoring Solutions Ltd. out of Salmon Arm, B.C. and is primarily focused on providing high value, lower cost, camera trapping solution to various wildlife and conservation and research projects. ...

Joanna is the Conservation Specialist for the South Coast Region of BC Parks, which includes provincial parks of the Sunshine Coast, Sea to Sky, the Lower Mainland, and the Fraser Valley as far east as Skagit Valley Provincial Park. She...

Lisa is a wildlife enthusiast who lives on a stretch of forest that hugs the sea and climbs directly to the sky. The Sea to Sky Area...the Sunshine Coast backs onto Squamish hosting an array of species which inhabit every level of...

Vanessa Isnardy is the Program Manager for WildSafeBC, a program developed to reduce human-wildlife conflicts through collaboration, education and community solutions. WildSafeBC's motto is "keeping wildlife wild and communities safe". Our...

Cheyney Jackson is the Field Coordinator for the Marmot Recovery Foundation, a charitable organization that is working to recover the endangered Vancouver Island Marmot (Marmota vancouverensis). The Marmot Recovery Foundation uses camera...

Kathy Jenkins became a bear guide for WhistlerBlackcomb in 2007, working there for 10 years. When she entered the world of black bears on Whistler and Blackcomb mountains she quickly became smitten with the wildlife world around her. As a...

Eric Jolin is a Wildlife Biologist and recipient of the 2019 Canada's New Noah scholarship, currently working as an Island Restoration Technician for the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation. Prior to this position, he worked as an Ungulate...

Matt Jones is an field biologist with Dillon Consulting, and the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He is an in-house biologist with the Wild Sheep Society of BC and a member of the BC Wildlife Federations youth engagement team. Matt...

Bhuwan Joshi is an undergraduate student at the Institute of Forestry, Nepal under Tribhuvan University having a keen interest in wildlife conservation, habitat management, human-wildlife conflict with a major focus on terrestrial mammals....

Rhiannon Kirton is a Biologist and Research Scientist with the Shuswap Band in Invermere, BC and is also a National Geographic Explorer for 2021/22 as part of her Trebek Initiative Grant. Whilst Rhiannon's work with Shuswap Band is varied...