Our Mission: The Oiled Wildlife Society of British Columbia’s mission is to provide emergency preparedness resources for wildlife response through spill training and management.

Our Vision: The Oiled Wildlife Society of British Columbia’s vision is integrating wildlife into spill preparedness and response to ensure best achievable care.

OWS’ purpose is to maintain preparedness for oiled wildlife response in British Columbia, including maintaining a centralized stockpile of equipment, establishing contingency plans, and providing training to key personnel.  We work with government agencies, industry, non-profit wildlife organizations, and professional wildlife responders to ensure oiled wildlife response is integrated into spill preparedness and response for events that have the potential to impact wildlife on water and land in BC.

In the event of an oil spill, OWS may provide logistical support to enhance communications between government agencies and spill response groups, and assistance in the coordination of highly-trained personnel.  Our experienced team also acts in a consultancy role for industry groups working to develop comprehensive oil spill contingency plans.

The OWS Board of Directors is a voluntary board consisting of individuals with diverse backgrounds in oil spill response, wildlife rehabilitation, veterinary medicine, business management and communications.

President – Lindsaye Akhurst
Vice-President – Linda Bakker
Treasurer – Position is vacant – Linda Bakker for the interim
Secretary – Vivian Davidson
Director at Large – Dr. Petra Warnock
Director at Large – Christina* Carrières

Our 2022 AGM took place on 31 August, 2022 via Skype.