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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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The curious, extraordinary life of Anne Innis Dagg
The Canadian woman who was first in the world to study giraffes in the wild — and is still considered one of the planet’s foremost experts on the species — is only now getting her due
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Science & Tech
Inside the National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada, a DNA “library of life”
As its one-year anniversary approaches, the cryobank at the Canadian Museum of Nature is ready to grow its collection of plant and animal tissues
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Environment
Meet five young scientists taking on major environmental issues
These finalists in the 57th annual Canada-Wide Science Fair prove the future is in good hands
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Policy reforms needed to protect science from political interference, study says
Recent challenges to evidence-based policy in Canada and the United States highlight a need for more transparency and advocacy for government scientists, study authors say
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Environment
Spotlight on conservation: Fitzpatrick Island, Quebec
Thanks in part to a donation from Kruger Products, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, in collaboration with Kebaowek First Nation, is protecting this ecologically significant island in the Ottawa River
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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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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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People & Culture
Interview with Dolf DeJong on helping endangered red panda populations at the Toronto Zoo
The CEO of the Toronto Zoo and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society talks about the newborn red panda cub and how a single animal can make a difference
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Environment
Timber poaching: The secretive crime decimating North America’s forests
Timber poaching has become “a problem in every national forest,” with an estimated $1 billion worth of wood poached yearly in North America
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Smother Nature: The struggle to protect Banff National Park
02Hope grows for one of Canada’s most endangered species as greater sage-grouse are released into the wild
03Swift foxes return to Alberta
04Alberta creates new provincial park, adding to world’s largest stretch of protected boreal forest
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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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How cattle ranching can help preserve species at risk in Canada’s grasslands
Agriculture can play an important role in protecting and restoring critical habitat on the Prairies
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Every turtle species in Canada is now at some level of risk
To save turtles, we need to think in “turtle time,” biologist says
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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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Five things you may have missed in the latest COSEWIC assessment
Whether it's lampreys on Vancouver Island or a rare moth on the Prairies, the latest assessment from the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada provides a snapshot of the nation's fragile and fascinating species
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Racing for Survival: Ontario’s blue racer
One man’s endeavour to save the province’s most endangered snake
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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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Tiny plant and animal species raise big questions for conservation biologists
Nearly half of the wildlife species assessed at the most recent meeting of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada are small and obscure, with limited ranges. Here’s why they matter.
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Should we kill one bird to save another?
On New Brunswick’s Machias Seal Island, predatory gulls are pushing endangered Arctic tern colonies to the brink, creating a dilemma for wildlife managers
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New fishing rules aim to protect Gulf of St. Lawrence right whales
The death and entanglement of 17 of the endangered mammals last summer spurred an unprecedented effort to make the Gulf of St. Lawrence safer — but will it be enough?
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Places
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Gwaii Haanas set to expand protected waters
Lengthy education campaign achieved compromise between fishing industry, environmental advocates
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Photos: Point Pelee National Park at 100
Established in 1918, Canada’s southernmost national park is a haven for wildlife and nature lovers alike
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Parks Canada to take ‘nature first’ approach to managing national parks
Responding to feedback from Canadians, environment minister Catherine McKenna promised a renewed focus on science and conservation for Canada's protected places
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Back where they belong
Nearly wiped out in Alberta in the 1800s, plains bison are making a historic return to Banff National Park
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Vanishing birdsong: How climate change is altering Canada’s soundscape
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How the world came together to protect a B.C. inlet
Environment
Q&A: Watch Jane Goodall discuss her groundbreaking work
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Muskwa-Kechika: An opportunity for bold conservation action
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Alanna Mitchell on 10 years of ”Sea Sick”
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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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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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Environment
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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Environment
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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Canada‘s largest EVER private conservation project
Also: Climate changed restaurant menus, sandhill cranes in New Brunswick, bears waking up from their slumber — and a pesky woodpecker hits Canada where it hurts
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Migration in the time of climate change
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
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Can you hear me now? Prairie songbirds change their tune to cope with human noise
Study finds birds near noisy sites are stressed out and struggling to adapt
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How citizen scientists solved a migration mystery
No one knew golden eagles in the Yukon and Alaska migrated along the Rockies’ front ranges, until an avid birder noticed something strange
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Margaret Atwood’s new ‘Angel Catbird’ is a comic book with a cause
The celebrated Canadian novelist's first foray into comics is for the birds. But also the cats.
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The amazing sea wolves of the Great Bear Rainforest
First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
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Amanda Vincent on saving seahorses — and all they represent
The award-winning marine conservationist shares her passion for seahorses and marine life by encouraging young minds to save tomorrow’s oceans
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Wolverine: Tracking the elusive trickster
The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish
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Tracking milkweed to save monarch butterflies
André-Philippe Drapeau Picard of Mission Monarch discusses the threats facing monarchs and how Canadians can help
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The truth about bees
To save the bees, we first need to understand them — and recognize their value independent of their role as pollinators
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I am Mutehekau Shipu: A river’s journey to personhood in eastern Quebec
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Severn Cullis-Suzuki on a path forward for the environment
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Modelling threats to caribou in Ontario’s Ring of Fire
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Seeing the garden through the trees: The Indigenous forest gardens of coastal B.C.
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Celebrating the life of renowned Canadian-American scientist David Schindler
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To effectively protect wilderness, Canada must get strategic, researchers say
As time runs out for Canada to meet its 2020 conservation targets, a new study aims to help governments and the public identify priority areas for protection
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A bear in the henhouse
How the drama of climate change is playing out on a small island in Hudson Bay
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As Banff’s famed wildlife overpasses turn 20, the world looks to Canada for conservation inspiration
The innovative structures are heralded for having opened migration corridors and saved countless animals from vehicle collisions
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Environment
Researchers pinpoint monarch butterfly birthplaces to help conserve species
New data could help coordinate conservation efforts across three countries
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“It’s at the very core of everything”: The significance of Canada’s wild rivers
Only a third of the world’s rivers longer than 1,000 kilometres remain free-flowing. In North America, 70 per cent of those are in Canada. Meet some of the people who want to keep it that way
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Environment
Dehcho Grand Chief honoured for bold conservation approach
Herb Norwegian, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations, is the recipient of this year’s Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize
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Environmental groups unite to demand a zero-plastic waste future for Canada
In a declaration released in advance of this weekend’s G7 summit, more than 40 environmental groups have challenged Canada to achieve zero plastic waste by 2025
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In the Supreme Court’s Peel watershed decision, signs of hope for a new land power paradigm
To many, the Yukon appears to be the vanguard of a growing Indigenous land power movement in Canada centred mostly in the North
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Seven iconic Canadian trees
In a nation of forests, these trees stand head and shoulders above the rest
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Sounding the alarm: The AR experience that lets you “swim” with southern resident orca
02Q&A: A Canadian river conservation leader on protecting our waterways
03Feds and Inuit governments collaborate on new High Arctic marine protections
04Canadian diver named 2019 North American Rolex Scholar
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Mapping the Lancaster Sound National Marine Conservation Area
Two visions of the landmark proposed marine protected region
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Ocean Bridge Diaries: Jordan Bertagnolli
As I think about all that we managed to pack into those 10 days, the memories that stand out all share a common thread: North Beach
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Canada announces ban on industrial activities in marine protected areas
Oil and gas extraction, mining, dumping among prohibited activities in ecologically sensitive areas set aside for conservation
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Reflections on water, the “lethal, limitless, life-giving frontier”
A pioneering deep-sea explorer shares thoughts on the nature and meaning of water
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Proposal to reopen commercial seal hunt in B.C. could have consequences for transient killer whales
A controversial proposal to reopen the seal hunt in B.C. might boost numbers of chinook salmon, but at the expense of other marine mammals, says a UBC professor
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People & Culture
Late filmmaker’s final documentary sheds light on sharks in peril
Sharkwater Extinction, the final documentary from Canadian filmmaker and activist Rob Stewart, is now screening across Canada
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Science & Tech
Stopping timber thieves with DNA
Volunteers are collecting samples from bigleaf maples to prevent illegal logging
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People & Culture
Protecting whales in an ice-free Arctic
As Arctic sea ice vanishes, new measures are needed to protect marine wildlife from increased ship traffic
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Protecting forests, in the name of the Queen
An ambitious legacy project called the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy unites forest conservation projects in the Commonwealth countries
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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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Why won’t wolverines cross the road?
In shedding light on wolverines’ aversion to roads, new research suggests the key to their conservation in Alberta
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Canada must step up action to conserve polar bears: report
New report from the WWF calls for increased international cooperation on polar bear conservation
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A lament for Bear 148
In spite of the best efforts of researchers and wildlife managers, the life of Bear 148 was destined to be cut prematurely short
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High-tech art to bring B.C.’s annual salmon run to downtown Vancouver
Uninterrupted, a digital art installation planned for Vancouver's Cambie Street Bridge, hopes to inspire conservation efforts
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Canada’s boreal wetlands are key to fighting climate change: report
A new report from the Boreal Songbird Initiative calls for enhanced protection of wetlands within Canada's boreal forest
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How photos and videos are changing whale research across Canada
To save whales, we first have to understand them. Here are three Canadian projects aimed at doing just that.
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People & Culture
An interview with architect Julian Smith
The Canadian architect and conservator talks sustainable cities, cultural heritage and why the world is looking to Canada to lead
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Report calls for international cooperation to protect migratory birds
Organizations would like to see at least 50 per cent of the boreal forest protected from industrial development
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Small but important fish species in trouble in parts of Canada: report
World Wildlife Fund cautions that fishery management must take entire local ecosystem into account
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Ottawa River declared heritage river
The Ottawa River joins 38 other Canadian rivers that have received the designation
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