Yes, we're trying to get more into that. We rely on a lot of citizen science. There are some coastal water bird counts that Bird Studies Canada has been coordinating. There are Christmas bird counts. We don't formally run them, but we definitely take advantage of the data that's available.
The farmers usually are the eyes and ears on the ground. They go out and look at wildlife and also tell us things that are going on in the landscape. More formally, which is what I think you're trying to get at, how are we engaging the broader community in this kind of observational work? To be quite honest, it's a bit of a challenge sometimes for our small organization to get data that's collected in the same manner across the board. If it's not collected in the same manner, it's not as usable, and it's harder to make comparisons.
To that end, we're engaging the Young Naturalists' Club, some of the Vancouver and lower mainlands groups, and we have a proposal in for a youth science project. They'll actually be the eyes and ears watching and conducting wildlife assessments using standardized monitoring procedures. That will fulfill two of our roles: wildlife population assessments, and engaging the community at large.