Suncity Environmental Services provides our clients with a range of environmental assessment, planning, and management services in urban, rural, and remote environments. We are dedicated to meeting the needs of our clients and the natural environment through the use of best available information and innovative solutions that mitigate environmental effects and enhance environmental values.
• Project development, management and coordination (e.g., networking, education/outreach, training, fundraising, budgeting, desktop and literature reviews, study design, data entry and management, technical report writing)
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration (e.g., environmental groups, governments, indigenous peoples, companies, landowners, public)
• Training and mentoring staff, interns, and volunteers in environmental assessment (e.g., species ecology and identification, inventory and monitoring)
• Wildlife awareness, management, and workplace safety (e.g., advising, implementation, monitoring).
• Permitting (e.g., Fisheries Act, Species at Risk Act, Migratory Birds Convention Act, Wildlife Act, BC Water Sustainability Act, Local government approvals)
• Environmental impact assessments and baseline inventories
• Best management practice preparation and implementation
• Ecosystem delineation and mapping (e.g., sensitive ecosystems - wetlands, meadows, old growth forest, riparian)
• Riparian area assessment (e.g., Riparian Areas Protection Regulation, Streamside Protection Regulation, bylaws, permitting)
• Species at risk habitat suitability and capability mapping (e.g., Oregon forestsnail, Western screech owl, phantom orchid)
• Rare plants and plant communities
• Threats assessment (e.g., invasive species, recreation)
• Habitat restoration, enhancement and compensation (e.g., urban and rural properties [naturescaping, food forests and gardens], agricultural lands [shelterbelts, hedgerows, beaver dam analogs], riparian areas)
• Wildlife habitat features (e.g., water bodies [ponds, dugouts, wetlands], bird and bat boxes, raptor perches, shelter/cover objects, pollinator meadows)
• Native species planting, salvages, and relocations
• Plant propagation (e.g., vegetative, seed collection and saving)
• Pre-construction surveys (e.g., nesting birds), salvages, and relocations (e.g., small mammals, amphibians, invertebrates)
• Bird surveys (e.g., owls, shorebirds, raptors, herons, swallows, waterbirds)
• Mammal surveys (e.g., marine observations, ungulates, rodents, bats)
• Heptile surveys (e.g., reptiles [snakes, turtles], amphibians, salamanders)
• Fish surveys (e.g., carcass and redd counts, trapping, electrofishing, stream classification)
• Aerial surveys (e.g., large mammals, raptors)
• Trapping and handling (e.g., birds, bats, small mammals)
• Remote technologies (e.g., radio and satellite telemetry, cameras, automated recording units)
• Species at risk (e.g., recovery planning, permitting, inventory)
• Terrestrial, marine, and freshwater
• Quality assurrance (advising, auditing)
• Vegetation (e.g., habitat restoration)
• Wildlife (e.g., bird nesting - songbirds, herons, raptors)
• Invasive species (e.g., treatments)
• Construction (e.g., erosion and sediment control, water quality, noise/hydroacoustics, spill prevention and response, toolbox talks, materials management, data tracking, incident reporting, permitting)
Suncity Environmental Services acknowledges and respects that it lives and works in the ancestral unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples who have and continue to live in relationship with and steward these lands since time immemorial. We are committed to understanding and building relationships with Indigenous peoples to advance reconciliation, decolonization, and conservation.