BC Amphibians and Invasive Bullfrog Conservation Issues
Schedule
Tue Mar 24 2026 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Neighbourhood Learning Centre - NLC | Chilliwack, BC
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Club Members should arrive for the AGM at 6:30 PM for a pot luck dinner of finger-food savories or deserts. The speaker starts at 7:30 PM with club elections afterwards. Please consider volunteering as Vice-President or as a director for Field Trips! If you are interested please contact [email protected]Public memberrs should arrive for the 7:30pm talk.
Stan A. Orchard will be our AGM speaker in March. He will touch on our native amphibians and the conservation issues created by the invasive American Bullfrog on wetlands as the bullfrog is listed as one of the 100 Worst Alien Invasive Species in the World.
Stan Orchard is a conservation biologist/amphibian and reptile specialist. From 1981-1999 he ran a herpetology program in the Natural History Section of the Royal British Columbia Museum. From 1994-1999 he was the National Co-ordinator for Canada for the IUCN/SSC Task Force on Declining Amphibian Populations in Canada (DAPCAN). In 1994 he co-founded the Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network (CARCNet) and served as its Chairman from 1994 to 1999. He is a member of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission. In 1998 he was invited to Australia by WWF to – over four years – design, co-ordinate and manage the world’s largest privately-funded amphibian conservation program. Currently, Stan is the President of BullfrogControl.com Inc and works on southern Vancouver Island
Bring your coffee cup and a small snack to share.
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