Plus: the albatross that loved Vancouver Island, a rare butterfly comeback, PEI lobsters to take a new kind of bait and the migratory birds on a potentially fatal collision course.

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.

An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.

Population of the endangered whale estimated at 525 

In the Bay of Fundy, technicians are putting a groundbreaking new tidal technology through its paces

How a Université Laval scientist, DFO researchers and locals in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, are working together to keep these staple fish populations healthy 

Canada is taking to space in the fight against illegal fishing

Groups protecting Atlantic salmon spawning grounds on Canada’s East Coast have a new view of the problems facing the prized species

How a cocktail of invasive species and global change is altering the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem

As the federal government considers the fate of proposed pipelines, a unique science experiment aims to understand the consequences of an oil spill in a freshwater lake

Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found evidence that bowhead whales exfoliate their skin by rubbing against large rocks

#MuseumSelfie trended on Twitter January 20th as people the world over shared their snaps.

An exclusive excerpt from the new book Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland's Saltwater Cowboys

The deaths are a major blow to the vulnerable population, which is estimated at around 500 individuals

The goal is to help rejuvenate and restore the habitats of salmon across B.C.

“We just knew no fish would get by. Not without our help.” Behind the scenes of the epic campaign to save a Fraser River salmon run.

Expedition team calls for permanent protection of undersea mountain range

Shutting off the high seas to commercial fishing might be an economically and environmentally sound option for the world’s fisheries and maritime nations: UBC research

Population of the endangered whale estimated at 525 

Engage your curiosity and fuel your imagination with a visit to one of these top Canadian treasure troves

Two marine biologists offer a glimpse of life at the bottom of the ocean during 2018, 2019 and 2020 seamount expeditions 

Lead author Aaron MacNeil discusses what this means for coral ecosystems and what Canadians can do to help

What can we learn when western science and traditional knowledge intersect?

One thing researchers weren't expecting to find: yellow perch cannabalism

Satellite images used to calculate catches

The world’s largest sea turtle faces dangers as it travels through the Atlantic Ocean

The resurgence of the humpback whale means its status could be downgraded

The sea otter, once hunted for its fur, is making a comeback

Government is committed to using science to determine what areas of Canada’s oceans will be selected for protection, says Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo

The Great Lakes Fisheries Commission and the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service are working hard to reduce the number of invasive sea lampreys in Lake Superior

Key facts and figures about this remote patch of the Beaufort Sea

Results of necropsies on six whales that died this summer in the Gulf of St. Lawrence reveal blunt force trauma and chronic entanglement as cause of death

The change is to transform the way decisions about fishing, shipping, resource development and more are made across the enormous northern region defined by the traditional Inuit homelands

Acidification, disruptions to food webs among the biggest concerns for ocean scientists

Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain in the wild

Writer Stephen Smith takes to Newfoundland’s shores in his quest to see the ‘capelin roll’ — the spawning spectacle of a tiny fish with a massive ecological, historical and cultural impact

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?

In honour of the National Bird Project, here's a selection of Canadian Geographic bird covers from the magazine's 86 years of print

Plus: Racing to find a vaccine for chronic wasting disease, narwhal “flukeprints” and tool-using polar bears

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Five eco-friendly products used around the world to create paper

An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush

Bring it … and leave it all on the mountain

This online map platform displays hundreds of stories on ecological farming issues from around the world