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Darron Kloster

Darron Kloster

Darron Kloster has been an editor, reporter and feature writer for the Times Colonist for 34 years and has worked in the industry for four decades covering everything from sports and business to municipal and provincial politics and breaking news.

Darron covers stories involving climate change and issues involving wildlife, marine ecosystems and the rapid changes to our natural world. He also edits and compiles several of the Times Colonist’s special projects, including Discover Magazine, and writes the On The Street business column.

A Saskatchewan native and a graduate of Mount Royal University journalism program, Darron has a natural curiosity — and a belief that every person has a story to tell.

When he’s not at press conferences, in the field, on the phone or pounding on a keyboard, Darron likes exploring and photographing Vancouver Island’s beautiful terrain, tending his vegetable patch and doing carpentry projects.

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Recent Work by Darron

Grizzly mom, cubs a sign big bears are establishing on Vancouver Island

Grizzly mom, cubs a sign big bears are establishing on Vancouver Island

Catherine Babault, a professional wildlife photographer based in Courtenay, captured video of a mother grizzly and two young cubs grazing in a meadow with a small herd of Roosevelt elk.
Humpback focused on feeding comes within oar length of startled kayakers

Humpback focused on feeding comes within oar length of startled kayakers

Whales are focused on feeding and often oblivious to their surroundings.
VIDEO: Battle between seal and octopus filmed by night divers

VIDEO: Battle between seal and octopus filmed by night divers

The seal was biting into one of the octopus’s arms to try and pull it from a den
On the Street: Conde Nast Traveler names Victoria best small metropolis

On the Street: Conde Nast Traveler names Victoria best small metropolis

Plus: Victoria International Airport honoured for pollinator garden.
Humpback whale freed off Haida Gwaii was 'hogtied' by crab fishing gear

Humpback whale freed off Haida Gwaii was 'hogtied' by crab fishing gear

It’s the second rescue mission for a humpback this year, and and more entanglements could be on the way, with more fishing gear in the water as humpback numbers rise
Dino makers: Victoria company brings dinosaurs bones to life

Dino makers: Victoria company brings dinosaurs bones to life

Dino Lab is one of only a handful of companies in North America that do the painstakingly work of separating dinosaur bones from rock, creating the missing pieces using 3-D printers and delivering full-size, mounted skeletons
Mama bear and cubs use dog door to break into B.C. home

Mama bear and cubs use dog door to break into B.C. home

Home security system shows mother bear holding the flap of the pet door open as bear cub puts its head in, then pushing it through.
Unable to find housing, couple takes to the ocean

Unable to find housing, couple takes to the ocean

Every time Philip and Sonja Hathaway leave their boat in Vancouver Island estuary, they worry it won’t be there when they return.
Calgary man gets substantial fine for hunting on Vancouver Island

Calgary man gets substantial fine for hunting on Vancouver Island

The man was fined $2,875 and handed a two-year hunting ban for using a B.C. resident licence to hunt, despite living in Alberta.
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