Ongoing work to 'rewild' Vancouver parks brings people closer to nature

Driving through Stanley Park one morning, Vancouver park board biologist Nick Page came across a bizarre scene. Cars were abandoned haphazardly along the roadside as a crowd of people ran toward the seawall.
“I thought there’d been an accident,” he recalled.
In fact, a grey whale had been spotted in the water near Siwash Rock.
The incident confirmed an idea the park board had been working on, said Page. Parks shouldn’t only be about sports fields and recreation facilities