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Daily Archives: June 5, 2024

Witty’s Beach Key Biodiversity Area ( KBA) designation 2024

Posted on June 5, 2024 by Garry Fletcher
Witty’s Beach has been designated as a Key Biodiversity Area. https://kbacanada.org/site/?SiteCode=BC303

The following article has been published in the Metchosin Muse:

 

 

 Witty’s Beach joins other KBAs in the Victoria area :

 

 

 

The other local KBA designation is at Race Rocks Ecological Reserve

Posted in Biodiversity, Coastal Plants, Sand beach | Tagged Key Biodiversity Area, Wittys beach

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  • 19th Century Victoria waterfront
  • 2. Albert Head to Clover Point Segment
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  • Business Plan
  • Clover Point to 10 mile Point Segment
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    • Biodiversity of the Metchosin Coastline
      • Birds of Coastal Metchosin
        • Seabird Fall Census on Taylor Beach
      • Coastal Terrestrial Plants in Metchosin.
      • Marine Mammals of Coastal Metchosin
      • Taxonomy and Species Gallery of Coastal Metchosin
    • Coastal Ecosphere Resources
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  • Sector 8: Albert Head, Tower Point, WIttys Lagoon,
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      • Anthropogenic (human-caused) Ecosystem Modification
    • Metchosin Coastal Ecosystems

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  • acidification
  • Ammodytes hexapterus
  • anthropogenic
  • beach fires
  • Bentinck Island
  • Bonapartes gull
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  • CRD
  • DND blasting
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  • feeder bluff
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  • introduced species
  • loon
  • Mollusca
  • nudibranch
  • overharvesting
  • Pedder Bay
  • pH
  • plankton
  • purple martin
  • race rocks
  • resource management
  • riparian
  • sandlance
  • sea grass
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  • sensitive ecosystems
  • species list
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  • Symbiotic
  • Taylor Beach
  • trees
  • Veronica americana
  • weirs beach
  • Witty's lagoon
  • Wittys beach
  • Wolf Bauer
The MetchosinCoastal website was originally created to represent the contiguous ecosystems of the Race Rocks Ecological Reserve/Marine Protected Area and for the use of the Green Blue Spaces sub committee of the Metchosin Environmental Advisory Select Committee (MEASC ) Copyright: G.Fletcher 2013 ( garryf ( use at) gmail.com)
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