Albert Shamess thought he was accepting a job as director of waste management for the City of Vancouver in 2012. He didn’t know he was also becoming manager of Canada’s most prolific, if unconventional, bird habitat. “It’s pretty interesting, not what you normally think of for a landfill,” he says while taking The Vancouver Sun on a safari-style tour through the city’s 225-hectare garbage dump at Burns Bog in Ladner.
