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Where the saviour fish still swims
In an era of collapse, a fabled fish keeps coming back to the Nisg̱a’a nation
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Can Canada learn from its conservation mistakes?
Peregrine falcons were able to recover, but beluga whales weren’t. A group of scientists set out to find out why.
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The dam, the myth, the legend: 50 years of the beaver
An exploration of the buck-toothed, flat-tailed, landscape-shifting icon celebrating 50 years as Canada’s national symbol
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The magic in the mud: sandpipers’ migration superfood
An invisible fuel draws thousands of tiny migrating shorebirds to the Roberts Bank Mudflats each year. Now, we’re in danger of losing it forever.
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The good bear: Co-existence on Yukon’s Klukshu River
The ice bears of Klukshu have been living with people and salmon for millennia. Is this age-old balance under threat?
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Wildlife Wednesday: the Greenland shark’s secret to 500-year life
Plus: the mammoths of Vancouver Island, the sustainable beluga-hunting of the Inuvialuit, and how some coho salmon stay sea lice-free
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Wildlife Wednesday: Pacific salmon travel warm water ‘corridors’ to enter the Canadian Arctic
Plus: the sad death of Nakoda and her cubs, the NASA satellites tracking endangered wildlife, the climate challenges facing Atlantic herring, and… sharknados?
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Wildlife Wednesday: does Canada need to cull wolves to save ‘baby reindeer’?
Plus: Canada’s favourite baby orca finally free, turkeys run wild in Quebec, giant prehistoric sabre-toothed salmon renamed, and Toronto Zoo is expecting a snow leopard-shaped bundle of joy
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Wildlife Wednesday: study finds California sea lions are getting bigger
Plus: juvenile salmon migration timing is changing, candy-striped spiders are catching big prey and $500,000 worth of baby eels seized in Enfield, N.S.
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Wildlife Wednesday: avian flu kills polar bear for the first time ever
Plus: beavers and AI team up to fight wildfire, swamp rodents invade Ontario, sharks in peril, and Great Bear hunting rights bought by conservation group
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Wildlife Wednesday: peregrine falcons use ‘false alarm’ attacks to tire out prey
Plus: 3,000 illegal shark fins seized by the DFO, Atlantic Canada’s seals under investigation, salmon use ‘cooling stations’ to de-stress, and 16-kilogram tortoise found wandering spinach patch
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Wildlife Wednesday: cage diving with great white sharks comes to Nova Scotia
Plus: Canada jay sibling rivalry, northern leopard frogs bounce back, waterfowl struggling in the prairies, and Pokémon Go meets wildlife in new mobile game
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The fright of a lifetime: Accidentally encountering a great white shark in Canada
Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark shares his experience coming face-to-face with one of the ocean’s top predators while scuba diving near Halifax, N.S.
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Wildlife Wednesday: the monumental task of taking a polar bear to the vet
Plus: a mother orca’s burden, hope for sharks and rays, the link between salmon and wildflowers, and financially tracking the illegal wildlife trade
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Wildlife Wednesday: Canada leads high seas mission to protect Pacific salmon
Plus: coyote compensation in Alberta, great white shark washed up in Haida Gwaii, baby red panda gets a new name at Toronto Zoo, and bumble bee breeding programme underway in Ontario
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Shark tales: Canada’s great whites
As white sharks make their presence known off the coast of Atlantic Canada, researchers and locals want to know: should people be worried?
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Jawsome: behind the scenes of Canada’s newest great white shark documentary
Korean-Canadian filmmaker Sonya Lee dives deep into the world of great white sharks for the latest documentary from CBC’s The Nature of Things
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Wildlife Wednesday: invasive “vampire fish” exploding across Great Lakes
Plus: following a whale fall, encountering a great white shark in New Brunswick, pushing to protect the marbled murrelet, and uncovering a fossilized fight to the death
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Wildlife Wednesday: 7,000 apply to hunt “problem” grizzlies in Alberta
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What is the most “Canadian” animal? It’s not the moose
Move over caribou and loon; it might be time for the opossum or mudpuppy to grace our currency
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The butterfly redemption
How scientists, volunteers, and incarcerated women are finding hope and metamorphosis through supporting a struggling butterfly
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Crossing Paths: New photography project takes aim at the impacts of transportation on wildlife
The debut campaign launched by the Canadian Conservation Photographers Collective brings awareness to threats to wildlife from roads, railway transit, ocean transportation and air traffic
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Hide and seek: The race to save the Vancouver Island Marmot
In the field with researchers and volunteers scrambling to save Canada’s most endangered mammal
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Wildlife Wednesday: tiny, endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle found on Magdalen Islands for the first time
02Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Zoo welcomes twin snow leopard cubs!
03Wildlife Wednesday: belugas can change the shape of their melons to communicate
04Wildlife Wednesday: bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in history
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Unpacking the mystery of grizzly bears in Wapusk National Park
In the Hudson Bay Lowlands, polar bears have reigned supreme. Increased sightings of a new predator have everyone on high alert.
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The otter, the urchin and the Haida
As the sea otter begins its long-overdue return to Haida Gwaii, careful plans are being laid to welcome them — and to preserve a prosperous shellfish harvest
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Do not disturb: Practicing ethical wildlife photography
Wildlife photographers on the thrill of the chase — and the importance of setting ethical guidelines
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Guardians of the glacial past
How ‘maas ol, the spirit bear, connects us to the last glacial maximum of the Pacific Northwest
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After burn: The new face of fire puts wildlife on the hot seat
How Canada’s wildlife is struggling to cope with the human-induced forcings of climate change
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Wings over Niagara: the gulls of the falls
During the winter, it’s not only humans that flock to the iconic falls; Niagara Falls is known as the gull capital of the world
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The politics of wild: where do Alberta’s wild horses belong?
Free-roaming horses have existed in Alberta for hundreds of years. Some say they’re a nuisance, while others believe they have their own place in the landscape. In the end, who gets to decide the horses’ fate?
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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 16 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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Melissa Hafting on the healing power of birds
The ecologist, photographer, activist and birding guide discusses her fascination with birds, bringing people together and how birdwatching can help people deal with grief
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The future of Pacific salmon
As climate change increasingly alters ecosystems across Canada, salmon populations are proving their resiliency – what they need now are new opportunities to adapt
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How will the Jasper wildfire affect wildlife?
A Canmore, Alta. based wildlife and nature photographer reflects on how bears and wolves could be faring in the midst of the fire, and shares some of his most memorable photos
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Wolf behaviour analysis: an excerpt from The Pipestone Wolves
Wolf behaviour expert and author Günter Bloch and renowned wildlife photographer John E. Marriott explore the rise and fall of Alberta’s Pipestone wolves
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Opoyastin: Wolves of the big wind
At a fly-in wilderness lodge on Hudson Bay, guests immerse themselves in a rarely studied wolf pack
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Wildlife Wednesday: how bees are helping to solve elephant-human conflict in Africa
Plus: cross-border salmon tension, a clue in the eastern wolf debate, the role of weather in bison migration and evidence a near-mythical wolf once roamed Canada
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Wolves exhibition opens at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Wolves! Shape-shifters in a Changing World unpacks the complex social lives of wolves through culture and science alongside stunning images by photographer Michelle Valberg
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Wildlife Wednesday: a new genomic tool is teaching us more about “grolar” bears (or “pizzlies”)
Plus: an epic butterfly adventure, Indigenous-led solutions to boost endangered caribou and…are plants talking to each other?
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Wildlife Wednesday: Northern map turtles “breathe” through their skin to survive winter ice
Plus: caribou on camera in Wapusk National Park, black bears take over Yellowknife and large-taloned bird ancestry revealed
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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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The naturalist and the wonderful, lovable, very bold jay
Canada jays thrive in the cold. The life’s work of one biologist gives us clues as to how they’ll fare in a hotter world.
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Wildlife Wednesday: what pikas — and their poop — can teach us about climate change
Plus: orcas are eating a toxic diet, southern birds are moving in on northern birds thanks to climate change, North Atlantic right whale population is steadying, and red swamp crayfish are showing up unwanted in Nova Scotia
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Wildlife Wednesday: “milestone achievement” — Bhutan records a nearly 40 per cent increase in snow leopard numbers
Plus: city lights make bird eyes smaller, killer whales play “pass the porpoise,” Atlantic walrus more at risk than ever, and grizzly bears besieged by forestry roads
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Wildlife Wednesday: the vagrant sea eagle boosting North America’s economy
Plus: Canadian scientist witnesses sperm whale birth, wildlife get that shrinking feeling, migratory birds fly ever higher, and teeth tell time (sort of)
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Wildlife Wednesday: bottlenose dolphins use “baby talk” to communicate with their young
Plus: investigating a mysterious golden eagle flight, rescuing abandoned piping plover eggs, running North America’s largest bug farm, and more.
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Wildlife Wednesday: 14 new pups born at Vancouver Island marmot “dream home”
Plus: “Poptart” the humpback whale spotted with newborn calf, world-record poison ivy found in Ontario, wing spots give monarch butterflies migration boost, and the ups-and-downs of mountain chickadee breeding
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The call of the loon
These iconic birds have added magic to the soundscapes of Canada’s lakes for millions of years — but will we hear them forever?
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Wildlife Wednesday: the titanic ants that once roamed prehistoric B.C.
Plus: bald eagles take to farms, a wayward puffin shows up in New Brunswick, new study finds not all orca hunt the same, and a new approach to hatching salmon
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Giving Bambi the boot
Our love of deer runs deep. But as their numbers surge and damage mounts, it may be time for a reckoning.
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Wildlife Wednesday: 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk reveals 1,000-km Yukon-Alaska migration
Plus: The silver-haired bat that sings, the whale that lives in human-like clans, the industry that could breathe life into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the new regulations that aim to protect Canada’s most valuable fish
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Our fascination with mammoths
How the legacy of these woolly giants persists in pop culture, storytelling, ecology and even the controversial idea of de-extinction
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Wildlife Wednesday: mammoth meatballs and Tyrannosaurus lips!
Plus: the true history of horses in North America, herring spawning in new waters, and how to protect road-crossing salamanders
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Wildlife Wednesday: can the mighty muskox survive its greatest test yet?
Plus: a sea lion and an octopus fight to the death, new luminescence discovered in sea cucumbers, volcanic winters may have caused dinosaur extinction, and the white bison gene is revealed.
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Wildlife Wednesday: do octopuses dream of underwater sheep?
Plus: Hvaldamir the spy whale, White Gladis the vengeful orca, the sparrows that switch part of their brain off, and the decayed giant washed up on P.E.I.
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The silent migration beneath our feet
Understanding the spread of non-native earthworms in northern Canada
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Announcing the winners of the 2023 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 15 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife
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Muskoxen: the tundra’s ultimate survivors
Muskoxen have roamed the tundra for millennia, but today these woolly beasts are facing a number of very modern threats to their existence
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Wildlife Wednesday: how sea otters are helping save marshes, one crab dinner at a time
Plus: blue and fin whales are mating ‘with porpoise,’ B.C. Court ruling finds an environment minister’s statement is ‘for the birds,’ hungry crustaceans chow down on live jellyfish, and why pigs wearing clothes is not the cute story you think it is
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Excerpt from The Bee Mother
In this beautifully illustrated book, readers will learn about the essential role of the bumblebee, honeybee and yellow jacket wasp in the Xsan ecosystem
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Working towards a wild pollinator strategy for Canada
As wild pollinator populations continue to decline, researchers are working to develop a vision for Canada’s pollinator protection
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Award-winning photos capture doomed salamanders in Algonquin Park
Otherworldly shots captured by science and conservation photojournalist Samantha Stephens show spotted salamanders trapped by carnivorous northern pitcher plants
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Documenting the herring run
Conservation photographer Kali Wexler marvels at the annual event in the coastal waters around Vancouver Island — and explains why it is so critical to the ecosystem
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In graphic detail: What’s on the menu for killer whales?
From herring to narwhal to seal, killer whale diets vary across the North Atlantic
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Survival in the suburbs: Karsten Wall on the magnificence of the modern Canadian goose
Director and writer of the documentary Modern Goose shares his insights into the lifestyle of an average Canadian goose living in our country’s suburbs
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Wildlife Wednesday: Arctic fox “green thumb” effect on tundra can be seen from space
Plus: record-breaking polar bears in Churchill, problem-solving racoons in Vancouver, and the urban song sparrows-turned super dads.
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Wildlife Wednesday: loons are suffering as water clarity diminishes
Plus: the elephant seal that keeps coming back, the fox that solved an infection mystery, and the hypersexual zombie cicadas about to emerge from the ground
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Wildlife Wednesday: revealing the life of the Coast Salish woolly dog through oral histories and ancient genomics
Plus: experience life as a Toronto raccoon, red-throated loons learn an icy lesson, and orca use icebergs to scratch their itches
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Wildlife Wednesday: could traffic control for whales help prevent ship strikes?
Plus: bowhead whales spending more time in Arctic waters, Toronto Zoo’s newborn white rhino calf gets a name, bird brains are put to the test, and the pesky leafhopper that could help shed light on climate change
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Bug Adventure: The six superpowers of bugs
The newest exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature invites visitors to experience the world from a bug’s perspective through immersive, sensory experiences
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Animal Facts: Blue shark
Named after its distinct blue colour, the blue shark is one of the most wide-ranging and easily recognizable sharks in the world. It can be found on both Canada’s Pacific and…
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Wildlife Wednesday: How a pandemic heli-ski shutdown expanded the range of B.C. caribou
Plus: orca don’t love metal music, orangutans get new home at Toronto Zoo, Dominica protects ‘carbon heroes’ of the sea, and crickets boost acoustic efficiency in surprising ways
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The ice walkers: Canada’s polar bears
An excerpt from Gloria Dickie’s book, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future, which explores the planet’s eight remaining species of bears and the dangers they face
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Wildlife Wednesday: B.C. big tree hunter finds “Canada’s most impressive tree”
Plus: wild pigs crossing into N.W.T, AI listening to bee buzz, bowhead whales breaking pregnancy records, and horseshoe crabs paying price for medicinal blood
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An Indigenous perspective on the Canada jay
Arguments for the official recognition of the Canada jay as the country’s national bird
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Wildlife Wednesday: Toronto Zoo animals threatened by wildlife smoke
Plus: Rapidly evolving cod, surprise science, two new bird monitoring stations and how to protect clams against extreme heat
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A labour of love: Using photo-identification to track Pacific white-sided dolphins
“What are they doing and why are they here and what’s their story?”
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Q&A: The masterminds behind the first grizzly rewilding program
CBC Gem documentary “Grizzly Rewild” follows five grizzlies raised in captivity as they’re reintroduced to a world without walls
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