Instead of seeing songbirds and water lilies, Michael Seear watched with dismay as the water in two ponds in Vancouver’s Vanier Park started to disappear each summer over the last three years. Now, one of them is nearly dry.
“It’s a beautiful pond when it’s full of water. You can see pond lilies and red-winged blackbirds around it. But now it’s just a mud pile,” said Seear, who is also a board director at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation.
In 2020, the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation stopped filling the ponds with potable water in a bid to conserve water, implementing a bylaw that requires some water features, like ponds that do not
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