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Goat Milk a Lifesaver
Sick and injured fawns and those orphaned, abandoned or mistakenly taken have a temporary home in a forested area at MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre in Merville. The cost in food and precious volunteer time is high, as it will take several months to ready the...
Thank you to All the Silent Auction Donors
Thank you to All the Silent Auction Donors for Roy’s Towne Pub Fundraiser!
Generous Donation from Comox Rotary
Paul Witt from the Comox Rotary visited MARS today and presented us with a $3,000 cheque to help us with the operation of our centre. Our Western Screech owl, Lanei is looking on approvingly. We are really struggling with having recently moved from one...
Learn with Ambassador Birds in the Classroom and Community
A Visit from an Ambassador BirdWe're short of bird handlers at the moment and may not able to accommodate you at this time. If you're an educator, community outreach group, or organization putting on an event and you would like to have MARS ambassador birds attend,...
Build a Wildlife Hospital
Join the 1250 Club
MARS rescues and rehabilitates wildlife from all over northern Vancouver Island – from south of the Comox Valley to beyond Port Hardy as well as the nearby mainland and gulf island. This is a very large area and our caseload …
Into the Blue
Project Funded by TD Friends of the Environment Foundation Protecting Great Blue Heron Habitat and Nesting Colonies As more land is built up, altered and used by humans, Great Blue Herons are at risk of finding no place to live and forage for food. Herons require...
Great Blue Heron Quiz
What do Great Blue Herons eat? Fish, frogs, reptiles, rodents, insects When do Great Blue Herons hunt for food? Great Blue Herons can hunt for food during the day and night. The best times for hunting fish is when the tide is going out...
Great Blue Herons
We would like to tell you about a really big bird called the Great Blue Heron, the largest herons in North America. They can fly as fast as 56 km per hour and have been around on earth for nearly 2 million years. Although they are mostly blue, their eyes...
CTV StyleFile Visits MARS
CTV’s “Style File” came to MARS earlier this month to film a selection of the bags and to show the viewers all the fawns we have successfully rescued. NOW AVAILABLE! Wildlife Tote Bags, iPhone bags, small dressy purses decorated with fringe, crystals or...
Eaglets Released
These two eaglets were brought in to MARS this summer. Both were from Hornby Island. They were sent over to O.W.L. on the mainland, to be raised by one of their wonderful adult foster parent eagles. On October 4th & 5th, they were returned...