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Framing the wild: images of Canada’s globally vital ecosystems
Photographs from across the country reveal why Key Biodiversity Areas are critical to the planet’s future
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How the forest sector conserves biodiversity in our forests
Human intervention in natural forest processes might seem counterintuitive, but experts say active management can actually help reduce wildfire risk and restore forests’ value to wildlife
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Wildlife
What is the most “Canadian” animal? It’s not the moose
Move over caribou and loon; it might be time for the opossum or mudpuppy to grace our currency
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Environment
Biodiversity or bust? Here’s what happened at COP16
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity landed a stronger role for Indigenous Peoples in biodiversity conservation, but failed to secure 30 x 30 financing or monitoring plans
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Forest mast: Nature as a community of care
What is lost when we destroy a forest? In an excerpt from her new book, Our Green Heart, renowned biochemist and botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger reveals the profound and far-reaching effects of an abundant year — and issues a call to action.
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Biodiversity by design: A birds and bees tour of Calgary
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Spotlight on conservation: Hastings Wildlife Junction
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Spotlight on conservation: Kootenay River Ranch
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Spotlight on conservation: Fitzpatrick Island, Quebec
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The many benefits of the minuscule but mighty Miyawaki forests
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Vanishing birdsong: How climate change is altering Canada’s soundscape
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Comprendre le comportement animal est essentiel pour la conservation de la biodiversité
En comprenant pourquoi les animaux se comportent comme ils le font, nous pouvons mieux les protéger tout en sensibilisant les gens à leur statut précaire
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Wildlife
Why understanding animal behaviour is key for biodiversity conservation
By understanding why animals do what they do, we can better protect them while making people care
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Environment
Key Biodiversity Areas bring conservation close to home
One of the most complex challenges for nature conservation comes from a simple question: what must we save?
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Environment
Harvey Locke on COP26 and why “nature needs half”
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The UN Climate Change Conference taking place now in Glasgow might be the planet’s last best chance to prevent a climate and biodiversity catastrophe, according to one of the world’s foremost conservationists
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Op-ed: The Amazon fires are back — and the consequences affect us all
Bioethicist and conservationist Kerry Bowman on the 2020 Amazonian forest fires — as bad, or worse than 2019's — and why Canadians should be very concerned
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“We did this:” Is there a way out of our intertwined climate and biodiversity crises?
As the impacts of global warming become increasingly evident, the connections to biodiversity loss are hard to ignore. Can this fall’s two key international climate conferences point us to a nature-positive future?
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Wildlife
The strange way scientists are trying to save snakes in southwestern Ontario
You’ve heard of snakes on a plane, but what about snakes in tubes?
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Hearts in the Ice: Biodiversity and our oceans
Two adventurers have extended their stay in isolation in Svalbard, Norway to continue gathering wildlife observations in the remote Arctic
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Science & Tech
Exploring the human microbiome, our ‘forgotten organ’
Me & My Microbes: The Zoo Inside You, a new exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, examines the connections between our microbiome and our health
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The illegal wildlife trade is a biodiversity apocalypse
An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.
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Mapping out a new approach to biodiversity protection
Decisions around where to establish new protected areas in Canada should consider wildlife and ecosystem health first
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10 interesting discoveries from BioBlitz Canada 150
35 events, 16,600 hours and 7,510 recorded species: the results are in from a series of bioblitz events held to commemorate Canada 150
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