
Wildlife
Punctuation’s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
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Wildlife
After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
Wildlife
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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IUCN moves right whales to the second-last step before extinction on endangered species list
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Other countries recognize that a healthy environment is a basic human right. A new documentary argues it's time Canada did the same.
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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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The new movement building flourishing tourism hubs across Canada – one sustainable example at a time
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Thomas Hall review the Seattle Sports Firewater Multi-Bottle and Mountain Hardwear Lamina Z Spark sleeping bag
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The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes
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To save whales, we first have to understand them. Here are three Canadian projects aimed at doing just that.
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Plus: Arctic-bound beavers, New Brunswick’s rare vulture visit, Manitoba’s cougar comeback and Canada’s feistiest flora
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Population of the endangered whale estimated at 525
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The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration
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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
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Whales are beginning to return to B.C. waters — but will they find a safe haven?
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Whales attacking ships are rare (Moby Dick notwithstanding), but a few incidents have been documented through history. Here's why.
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The Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds (GLUB) will catalogue sounds from whales to fish (glub?) to boat noise
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Live underwater webcam captures the antics of the lovable whales, but also provides important insight into beluga biology
Environment
Exhibit tells the tale of a rare blue whale that washed up dead in Newfoundland in 2014, offering new insights on Earth's largest animal
Wildlife
When one of the few remaining females of reproductive age in the southern resident population of North Pacific killer whales was found dead near Comox B.C. in 2014, an investigation was launched. The results highlight the challenges of protecting our most iconic marine mammals.
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In the 1990s, an abrupt decline in the fish-eating southern resident population dropped to 75 whales from 98
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Only about 400 North Atlantic right whales remain in the wild
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The deaths are a major blow to the vulnerable population, which is estimated at around 500 individuals
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A conversation with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who is getting ready to travel to the International Space Station
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Environment
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Environment
The Environment and Climate Change minister shares insights from her recent tour of Labrador's Nunatsiavut region and Torngat Mountains National Park
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The B.C. based biologist reflects on her decades long fight to preserve the ecosystem she calls home
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The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science kicks off Feb. 3, 2021
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Researchers from the international PoLAR-FIT team are revealing a four-million-year-old forest beautifully preserved in permafrost and peat on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island
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David McGuffin shares insights from his daily log during his summer 2018 expedition retracing a legendary trek on the Yukon’s Peel River
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The slowdown of human activity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to some surprising benefits for wildlife conservation. Can we keep them going after the danger has passed?
Mapping
This map, “taken on the spot in the year 1768,” tells but a tiny piece of the story of Newfoundland’s bygone Beothuk
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The mismanagement of personal protective equipment waste is contributing to environmental degradation
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Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba
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Plus: Marathon hare migrations, increasingly efficient wolves, wandering basking sharks and homemaking bees
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The Bank of Canada has announced that Viola Desmond will become the first Canadian woman to be featured on a regularly circulating banknote in 2018
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Phyllis Webstad turns her residential school experience into a powerful tool for reconciliation through Orange Shirt Day
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Uprooted repeatedly by development projects, the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree wandered boreal Quebec for 70 years before finding a permanent home. For some, the journey continues.
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Ten caracasses of the critically endangered whale have been found in the past two months.
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Understanding the effects of disturbances on killer whales
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Sydni Long writes about her experience using citizen-reported sightings for the Ocean Bridge program
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Artists aim to connect with beluga whales through music
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