Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

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.

Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team. 

Plus: muscle re-growing beetles, hitchhiking black widows, root farming pocket gophers and a 40th chick for the world’s oldest common loon

Largely unheralded until Canadian Geographic’s National Bird Project was held, the renamed Canada jay — formerly grey jay — has become in many minds the country’s national bird

Recording the soundscapes of our ecosystems is a burgeoning field that allows researchers to better decode what the Earth is saying. But are we listening?  

Plus: Colossal tree discovery in B.C., hope for Quebec’s musical frogs, what we can learn from ancient West Coast fish bones and Newfoundland’s Buddy Wasisname immortalized as ancient fossil!

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest

One man’s endeavour to save the province’s most endangered snake

Why Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us

In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

Jo-Anne McArthur’s photo of a kangaroo and joey who survived the 2020 Australian bushfires is up for the 2021 People’s Choice Award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

Canadian Geographic is pleased to honour 14 photographers for their outstanding images of Canadian wildlife

DNA sequencing like that used to track COVID-19 helps scientists trace the origins of salmon pathogens in B.C.

This past summer an ambitious wildlife under/overpass system broke ground in B.C. on a deadly stretch of highway just west of the Alberta border. Here’s how it happened.

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

Plus: Mapping North America’s sea ducks, collecting Yukon’s mosquitos, celebrating Newfoundland’s pine marten success and a rebound for Antarctica’s fin whales

From plants to ants, Canadian Geographic’s 2020 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year Competition showcases the best of the year’s wildlife photography

The deepwater sculpin thrives in deep lakes and cold temperatures. Researchers are now sequencing its genome to unravel the genetic secrets of this iconic Canadian fish

Jill Heinerth explores what can we learn from the lifecycle of freshwater mussels

Plus: a new name for an old pest, a new fund for chimney swifts, giant sponges found on deepsea volcanoes — and the poison weighing down North America's eagles.

Project will use satellite imagery to track walrus populations and habitats and guide their conservation

And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops

Plus: Tree species at risk, inbreeding polar bears, and a 20,000-kilometre butterfly chase

The predatory whale’s scientific name pays tribute to Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death

Plus: Cross-dressing hummingbirds, tracking genetically modified animals, and Arctic “junk food”

Plus: Bacterial “first responders,” modelling cod and more marmots

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

Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week

Researchers used chemical tracers to map the movements of an ancient woolly mammoth

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

The award-winning marine conservationist shares her passion for seahorses and marine life by encouraging young minds to save tomorrow’s oceans

At least 50 species of fish can be found in the Arctic drainage basin in Ontario

Measuring differences in posing behaviours could help farmers choose the best cleaners to use for sea-lice control

An essential process has shaped and moulded the lives of migratory birds

A look at how global warming impacts foundational conditions for entire ecosystems

Gorgeously illustrated and woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of Birds is for everyone who is passionate about birds and all they mean to humanity

Melanie Challenger explores the conflict between humanity and the animal in her new book, How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to be Human

A tire preservative is killing U.S. salmon en masse. The same may be happening in Canada.