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

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

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

Wildlife Wednesday: Northern map turtles “breathe” through their skin to survive winter ice

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

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

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

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The (re)naming of caribou

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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?

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A woman in a blue shirt stands next to the water

Environment

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

The Director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative discusses COP15, the importance of the boreal forest and the vital role of Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship

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Modelling threats to caribou in Ontario’s Ring of Fire

As interest in Ontario’s mineral-rich Ring of Fire region grows, caribou face threats on multiple fronts. New research could help chart a path to their conservation.

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Toad River in the Muskwa-Kechika region of B.C.

Environment

Muskwa-Kechika: An opportunity for bold conservation action

By protecting the Muskwa-Kechika, a vast, wild region of mountains, glaciers, and boreal forest in north-central B.C., we can create a climate refuge for vulnerable species

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Environment

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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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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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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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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People & Culture

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

After a total hunting ban was issued on caribou in 2013, Inuit across Labrador are sharing their experience and thoughts about caribou-related change

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

Plus: a caribou’s dinner, avian “flyways,” what astronauts can learn from squirrels — and blue whale tongue-eating orcas

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People & Culture

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

Born into a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family in northern Manitoba, acclaimed playwright and novelist Tomson Highway pays tribute to the magical world of his childhood in Permanent Astonishment

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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?

After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.