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EKWA and BCCOS work together for students
The East Kootenay Wildlife Association (EKWA) has been working with the BC Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) in Cranbrook since 2017 to create a student educational award that will be awarded to a college or university student from the East Kootenay early this fall.
Over the last year and a half, the BC Conservation Officer Service has donated seized antlers from closed Wildlife Act cases to the EKWA for this non-profit initiative. In turn, EKWA sold the antlers to a local horn buyer. All the proceeds from the antlers will be used to create educational awards for East Kootenay college or university students pursuing a career in fish and wildlife biology, natural resource conservation and law enforcement.
EKWA thanks the BC Conservation Officer Service for entering into this arrangement, as well as local horn buyer entrepreneur Rick Stanyer who graciously provided EKWA a premium price for the antlers as his way to help increase the value of the student educational awards.
EKWA believes investing these funds in local students pursuing a career in conservation or law enforcement is a way to help honour the wildlife accidently or unlawfully taken from the region.
Students interested in applying for the award should contact Mark Hall at [email protected] to request an information/eligibility package.
Lead image: Left – Sergeant Denny Chretien, BC COS Kootenay Region and right – Mark Hall, EKWA representative. Photo submitted
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