
These Mini-Museums will also be included in the touring exhibition. Housed in an inventively modified trailer and accompanied by skilled and personable interpreters, Species at Risk will visit Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland and the Okanagan this summer, setting up shop at summer camps, community museums and other important regional partners.Īs a legacy component of this initiative, beautifully designed Mini-Museums will be made available to BC schools in the fall, giving students the opportunity to study four notable species at risk through actual specimens and hands-on learning. Over 1,500 species in BC alone are now at risk.Ĭhange is happening much too fast and their survival, and ours, depends on the choices we make today. Over 50,000 plants and animals live in BC, more than anywhere else in Canada, but many could soon disappear forever when we don’t act, threatened species can quickly become endangered, or worse. “We’re excited to be spreading the word and starting conversations with BC residents, on the ground, face-to-face, out in the province,” said Hanke. “This is one of the most important conversations British Columbians should be having right now, and yet you don’t hear much about it,” said Gavin Hanke, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Royal BC Museum. Species at Risk is a new travelling exhibition produced in-house at the Royal BC Museum, with the support of TELUS, The Robert Bateman Centre and the John and Joan Walton Innovators Fund.īeginning this summer, and for the next three years, Species at Risk will deliver essential information on BC’s endangered species to the doorsteps of communities around the province. Species at Risk was on display at Fort Rupert Elementary School in Storey’s Beach on Tuesday, June 16. The Royal BC Museum is hitting the road this summer to spark a conversation with British Columbians on what BC could lose if we don’t make big changes to our relationship with the natural world. Happy Birthday Regional District of Mount Waddingtonīritish Columbia is known throughout the world for its spectacular nature and magnificent wildlife, but there is little awareness of the many species under threat of extinction.Rachel is a female given name of Hebrew origin and means ewe or female sheep.īehind the scenes Gallery Anne of Green Gables Wiki has 58 images of Rachel Lynde ( view gallery). Anne and Rachel got off on the wrong foot, but they eventually made peace with each other. She was a capable woman who made it her business to know about other people. Rachel was outspoken, opinionated, gossipy and matter-of-fact. Rachel was one of those delightful and popular people who pride themselves on speaking their mind without fear or favour." - Anne of Green Gables Mourning the loss of her husband and unable to keep up her house any more, she moved in with Marilla at Green Gables and helped her with Dora and Davy Keith. Rachel's husband died of unknown causes in June 1883. On the next evening Anne apologized to her and she forgave Anne. Rachel was horrified and left Green Gables. Anne got angry and said that she hated Rachel. Two weeks after Anne Shirley's arrival Rachel came to Green Gables to see her. Update for events from Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams and Anne of Ingleside. In the Dept of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, JS Marias building, CRI’s research entomologist is Dr. Please help Anne of Green Gables Wiki by expanding this section. This section is incomplete and needs to be updated. In 1858, they moved to a new house which they named Lynde's Hollow. They had twelve children together, two of whom died at a young age. In the middle of the 1840s, when she was 18 years old, she married Thomas Lynde. " Anne is eighteen I was married when I was that age." -Rachel Lynde
