Wildscaping Our Neighbourhood Society was formed in 2023 when a few neighbours living in Burnaby Heights saw an opportunity to create a biodiversity park on vacant City of Burnaby property. The mandate of our group is to protect and promote biodiversity.

After observing the tendency to take out natural areas and replace it with large expanses of grass, we developed the goal of incorporating biodiversity as a core objective in park planning.

In September 2023, Wildscaping Our Neighbourhood Society, gave a presentation to the Burnaby Parks Commission. This resulted in a meeting with the Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture Planning, to discuss our ideas. Following which, we began stewarding a natural area adjacent to the park in Burnaby Heights, flanking the Trans Canada Trail, between North Gilmore and North Carleton Avenues. Upon inspecting the natural area, the extent of the invasion of non-native plants was shocking. We had our work cut out for us!

In the Fall of 2023, after receiving training from ISCMV (Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver), we organized our first pull on April 21, 2024. Fifteen people turned out and we had a great start.