SCHOOL DISTRICT 43
Vanier Garden Habitat Club recieves City of Coquitlam's Environmental Achievement Awards

On June 26th, the Vanier Garden Habitat Club, which includes the SD43 students from the APEX and Encompass Program, received the City of Coquitlam Environmental Achievement Awards for their Conservation and Habitat Project creating a pollinating meadow, mason bee houses, a flicker nest box and for building composters.

The City of Coquitlam's Environmental Achievement Awards recognizes individuals, organizations and educators who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to promoting, conserving and enhancing Coquitlam's natural environment.

The group would like to thank the following institutions for their ongoing support on this project:

• Thank you to TD Bank Friends of the Environment for funding the tools and building supplies.
• Rotary Club of Coquitlam for funding materials and helping
• Thank you to Urban Roots for donating flats of starter plants
• Thank you to Burke Mountain Naturalists for your ongoing support
• Thank you to Plan Bee Native Nursery for providing the local native plant species for the pollinating meadow

The Vanier Community Garden and Habitat Club, which started in 2021, is a group of garden and habitat enthusiasts empowering students to cultivate a sense of belongingness and volunteerism through planting and growing of fruits, vegetables, plants and creating new habitat spaces for animals.  

The club aims to be a certified Wildlife Friendly Habitat Space with Canadian Wildlife Federation and is hoping to inspire others to become better stewards of the land.