Established by DAVID HANCOCK in 2006 to broaden his at that time more than 60 years of lecturing and teaching about wildlife and conservation, especially bald eagles, to include the web, the Foundation’s mandate is to use the Internet in general and live streaming wildlife video in particular to promote the conservation of wildlife and its habitats through science, education, and stewardship. In David’s words, “Our first live eagle nest cams reached and taught more people in a 4 month period than I had in all my years of lectures combined. This is the way of the future.”
Tracking Bald Eagles
Nest Mitigation
Streaming Cams
Our Mission
The mission of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation is to promote the conservation of wildlife and its habitats through science, education, and stewardship.
Our Projects
The Hancock Wildlife Foundation currently has numerous open projects that are helping to revitalize birds both in our own area and world wide. See what we have been up to on Our Projects page.
Donate Now
Hancock Wildlife relies heavily on donations from our viewers. Find out how you can help keep our cams alive and running for years to come.
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Volunteers
Campaigns
BETA eagles banded
BETA Eagles tracked
Meet The Team
Our Volunteers
2018 Online Volunteers
The image (clicks bigger) shows the avatars of more than 40 of the Hancock Wildlife Foundation’s online volunteers who run our forum, control our cameras, post observations about the activities on the cameras at our four eagle nests and on other wildlife cameras across North America and around the world, and post observations and stunning photographs of eagles and other wildlife they observe live and in person.
There are volunteers from at least 4 countries, and from a number of Canadian provinces and US states. Several of our cam controllers (usually called “zoomers”) are from the areas near our cams – but others come from a variety of places including Alberta, Nova Scotia, Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maine – and England (the country). The rest of our forum volunteers are equally spread out; most are in North America – but we do appreciate having observers in other parts of the world who can watch what happens on the cams in the middle of our night.
Our online volunteers make it possible for us to have a forum with reports on the activities at roughly 40 eagle nests with cams, more than 20 eagle nests without cameras in BC, a number of osprey nests, some owl nests, a cam watching Laysan Albatross in Hawaii, pandas in several zoos, sea eagles in Australia, black eagles in South Africa – and a whole lot more!
Thank you!
Our Research Campaigns
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Adopt a Nest
Adopt your favourite HWF Nest & Family for the entire nesting season. Your Nest Adoption will assist with the cost of the cams, maintenance and tech support that is required all year long as well as support the mission and mandate of HWF through ongoing education and activities that promote the conservation of wildlife.$500.00 donated -
Eagle Cams/Repairs
Keeping our cams running on our nests is an ongoing activity, with maintenance and repairs happening year around.$200.00 donated of $10,000.00 goal -
General Fund
This helps with the expenses that come with running the Hancock Wildlife Foundation year round.$2,025.00 donated of $15,000.00 goal -
BETA Program
Live, realtime tracking of Eagles is now a reality, help us to make this a bigger success in 2018.$2,500.00 donated of $20,000.00 goal
Join Us
LETS MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
There are many ways you can help us at the Hancock Wildlife Foundation
Working to save the birds
Our Partners and Supporters
Bartlett Tree Experts
BC Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development
BC Rentals
Bloom Biological Inc.
Canadian Wildlife Service
Centre for Wildlife Ecology
City of Surrey
Coastal Raptors
Eagle West Cranes
Falconry Hoods International
Kidd Biological, Inc.
Lafarge Canada
Molson Foundation
Pretty Estates Resort
Simon Fraser University
United Rentals
