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The wonderful wildlife of Nunavut

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La merveilleuse faune du Nunavut

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Wildlife Wednesday: a new genomic tool is teaching us more about “grolar” bears (or “pizzlies”)

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Wildlife Wednesday: does Canada need to cull wolves to save ‘baby reindeer’?

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Wildlife Wednesday: bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in history

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Valérie Courtois on what she hopes will come out of COP15: “to save the world”

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Modelling threats to caribou in Ontario’s Ring of Fire

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Muskwa-Kechika: An opportunity for bold conservation action

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Mapping out a new approach to biodiversity protection

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The (re)naming of caribou

The failure to recognize distinct species and subspecies of caribou is hampering efforts to conserve them. So, I revised their taxonomy.

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Leach's storm petrels fly above rough sea

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Walrus watching, sleepy bats and lost petrels

Plus: protecting Canada’s caribou and the struggle of the black spruce

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Kids

Animal Facts: Caribou

Caribou are highly migratory animals that stay together in herds while they move almost constantly.  …

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Tombstones representing each of Canada's 51 endangered caribou herds set up outside the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Canada in Gatineau, Que. May 1st, 2018

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Quebec First Nations step in to help save Val-d’Or caribou herd

The federal government has committed $1.26 million over five years for First Nations-led projects to preserve the endangered herd 

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People & Culture

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Un projet mené par les Inuits raconte l’histoire des liens entre les Inuits et le caribou

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Inuit-led project tells the story of Inuit connections with caribou

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Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind

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Living off-grid in Canada’s North
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Wildlife Wednesday: Northern map turtles “breathe” through their skin to survive winter ice

Plus: caribou on camera in Wapusk National Park, black bears take over Yellowknife and large-taloned bird ancestry revealed

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Wildlife Wednesday: Washington cougar boldly swims where no cougar has swam before

Plus: Honey bees love a puzzle and the efforts to save bison in Saskatoon, caribou in Jasper and spotted owls in B.C.

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Wildlife Wednesday: do trees really use underground networks of fungi to talk?

Plus: Orca missing out on the fattiest fish, the happy decline of humpback whale song, the 3,000-year-old caribou calving grounds and B.C.’s crabby green-shelled army

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Wildlife Wednesday: The ancient pre-primates that once roamed Canada’s Arctic

Plus: Alaskan wolves are getting a taste for sea otter, right whale-friendly lobster traps are hitting the market, AI is helping the fight against invasive phragmites, and First Nations discuss caribou protection

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Wildlife Wednesday: The land-to-sea evolution of the whale eye

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Is this the year we see a baby narluga?

A wolf walks in front of a forest

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The mysterious 500-kilometre, 20-year odyssey of Wolf 57

Two caribou silhouetted against a dark, rainy landscape

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Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?

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Wildlife Wednesday: Baby caribou, star-crossed salmon and bringing buffalo back

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Caribou, like this one in the Northwest Territories, are increasingly threatened across the country. (Photo: Alex Elliott/Can Geo Photo Club)

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At risk of extinction

Caribou numbers in Canada are dropping drastically — and quickly — leaving the iconic land mammal on the brink of extinction

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Mapping the decline of Canada’s caribou

 A snapshot of the country’s drastically dwindling caribou herds

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A boreal caribou cow nurses her calf in northeastern B.C.

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Critical habitat for boreal woodland caribou still unprotected six months after deadline

Environmental groups frustrated by lack of action on the part of the provinces 

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A small herd of mountain caribou running in Jasper national park

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Maternal pen project could be last chance for tiny endangered mountain caribou herd

The South Selkirk mountain caribou herd currently numbers just 11 animals

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Gotsǝ́ mı̨́ “spider web” in sunlight. Photo: Jean Polfus

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What spiders can teach us about ecology

The spider's web is the perfect metaphor for the interconnections between species, people and place

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boreal caribou female with calf

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Threatened boreal caribou face uncertain future in Canada

Provinces are falling behind on their obligation to protect the caribou's forest habitat, report says

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Study finds half of Canada’s vertebrate wildlife species are in decline

Habitat loss, pollution, climate change have all contributed to steep declines of some species since 1970 

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