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

Plus: the ins-and-outs of a Vancouver zoo wolf break-out, caribou conservation controversy in Quebec, more marmots on Vancouver Island and the tick-busting pine needle discovered in Nova Scotia

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Is this the year we see a baby narluga?

Plus: good news for Roosevelt elk, a new look for Alberta bison, a genetic disposition to wander for caribou and a big wildlife boost for southern Ontario

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A wolf walks in front of a forest

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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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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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Two caribou silhouetted against a dark, rainy landscape

Wildlife

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.

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Articles

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

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

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Modelling threats to caribou in Ontario’s Ring of Fire

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Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind
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Wildlife Wednesday: Baby caribou, star-crossed salmon and bringing buffalo back

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

Environment

Muskwa-Kechika: An opportunity for bold conservation action

Kids

Animal Facts: Caribou

Endangered caribou

Environment

Mapping out a new approach to biodiversity protection

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Our best maps of 2018

Laurie Sarkadi Voice in the Wild

People & Culture

Living off-grid in Canada’s North

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

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

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Threatened boreal caribou face uncertain future in Canada

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

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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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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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dwindling caribou map

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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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