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New Manager of Wildlife Rehabilitation
MARS is pleased to welcome Gylaine Andersen in her new role as Manager of Wildlife Rehabilitation services. She is a Registered Veterinary Technologist and is certified as a Wildlife rehabilitator through the International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council....
MARS Sponsorship Opportunities 2018-2019
We have some wonderful ways to become a sponsor for MARS! Build a home for Brinley, our Great Horned Owl, for $6,500. Build a home for our Hyacinth and Humpty, our two bald eagles, for $35,000 Build one of two Recovery cages for patients for $6,500 or $7,785 Build a...
MARS is overflowing with babies!
MARS has oodles of baby raccoons and deer. While they are cute as can be, they are also very demanding and expensive to care for. They require expensive goat's milk and have to be fed several times a day. If you would like to donate to help with their...
MARS Wildlife Rescue Book-a-Tour
MARS Visitor Centre is reopening for pre-booked outdoor tours of up to eight people, Fridays to Sundays.
New Wildlife Rescue Centre
The New MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre Building underway, crucial completion funds needed In May, MARS took an historic first step towards recognizing the dream of founder Mary Jane "Maj" Birch to provide a multi-purpose wildlife rescue centre for the Comox...
Houle Donation
Advertisement turns the lights on at MARS BY RAY One very ordinary day, Don Gulliver was having lunch with his wife in when he noticed a sign in a window – MARS Wildlife Rescue Centre was looking for volunteers. Gulliver is a foreman electrician with Courtenay-based...
Student Volunteers Busy
Student Volunteers Flock to MARS Seeking opportunity, west coast experience BY RAY Every day is different for student volunteers at the MARS Wildlife Centre on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, many of them from faraway homelands. “I wanted to help...
Swans Annual Visitors
Tundra Swan Rescued From Marsh Swans annual island visitors BY JAMIE MARS Supervisor of wildlife care, Reg Westcott, got more than his feet wet rescuing a weak and injured trumpeter swan from a pond on the edge of Comox Lake on Vancouver Island, BC. A concerned...
Barn Owl Evasive
Barn Owl Hides From Rescuers Nocturnal hunter turns up in broad daylight BY BRIAN Nocturnal British Columbia Barn owls are seldom seen and are never on the ground in the daytime unless something is terribly wrong. A local resident walking her dog in the Comox Valley...
Swanston Donation
Eagles inspire monthly donor Barbara Swanston’s love of eagles drew her to an Hornby Island eagle-cam and from there to the MARS wildlife rescue. The Campbell River, British Columbia resident was one of hundreds of eagle watchers connected by their...