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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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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
Alberta’s largest city has a lofty goal to restore some of its roadsides, boulevards and other open spaces to a more natural state. Here’s a look at some biodiversity-friendly projects already underway.
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Comprendre le comportement animal est essentiel pour la conservation de la biodiversité
02Why understanding animal behaviour is key for biodiversity conservation
03The strange way scientists are trying to save snakes in southwestern Ontario
04The illegal wildlife trade is a biodiversity apocalypse
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How Indigenous Peoples are leading the way on global biodiversity protection
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The promise of COP15
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Spotlight on conservation: Hastings Wildlife Junction
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Valérie Courtois on what she hopes will come out of COP15: “to save the world”
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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
Pioneered by a Japanese botanist, compact Miyawaki forests are beginning to replace backyard lawns on tiny plots around Canada
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Vanishing birdsong: How climate change is altering Canada’s soundscape
Indigenous conservationists are listening in to track the impacts of climate change on the boreal forest
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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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“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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The sixth extinction
The planet is in the midst of drastic biodiversity loss that some experts think may be the next great species die-off. How did we get here and what can be done about it?
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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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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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