Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

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

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

Photographer Martin Gregus recounts his summer 2020 expedition to the western coast of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba

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.

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

An Ontario centre is charting new horizons in wildlife rehabilitation — one reconstructed turtle at a time

Salmon runs are failing and grizzlies seem to be on the move in the islands between mainland B.C. and northern Vancouver Island. What’s going on in the Broughton Archipelago?

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

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

Report’s author says more needs to be done to stop a global extinction crisis

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

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

Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news

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

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.

As polar bears spend more time on land as a result of melting ice, they will have to shift their diets in order to survive

The ancient looking coelacanth gained more than 60 genes in relatively recent history

The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration

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

A memoir by Julia Zarankin 

RCGS Fellow Myrna Pearman offers her tips for a successful winter birding season

Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay

Sydni Long writes about her experience using citizen-reported sightings for the Ocean Bridge program

The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish

Sound is an integral part of a beluga’s life, so the quality of the underwater acoustic environment is very important for the health and survival of belugas

In the 1990s, an abrupt decline in the fish-eating southern resident population dropped to 75 whales from 98

He refers to them as ‘snow machines.’ Photographer Peter Mather has photographed wolverines in the Yukon and on Alaska’s North Slope

An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer

Silicon Valley software developers and B.C. conservation biologists create a facial recognition technology with photos of bears in B.C. and Alaska

Critical property is home to a number of endangered and threatened species

With millions of photos taken globally each day on smartphones, researchers have found they may also contain important ecological clues about our rapidly changing planet

After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?

From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic

Celebrating a springtime ritual of polar bear cubs emerging from the dens of Manitoba's famed Wapusk National Park

By protecting local waterways, the arapaima’s population has already seen a 30-fold increase in the last 10 years

Rick McIntyre explains the positive impact of wolf reintroduction on the Yellowstone ecosystem

How much do you know?

The Vancouver Island marmot, burrowing owl, greater sage-grouse and northern leopard frog are thriving again thanks to the zoo’s efforts 

Algonquin wolves face an uncertain future primarily because they can be legally shot and trapped in many parts of Ontario

The steps being made are towards Canada’s goal of 25 per cent protection of land and ocean by 2025

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

Canadian researchers have found the first case of malignant bone cancer in a dinosaur

Conflicts with wildlife in Canada continues to be an issue, but there are ways to keep yourself and wildlife safe

Areas of B.C. are experiencing the emergence of several years of built up mosquito eggs

Researchers are already seeing the effects of climate change on polar bear reproduction

The decrease in human activity could be the reason

IUCN moves right whales to the second-last step before extinction on endangered species list

Toronto’s waterways play an important role for salmon

The turtles we keep as pets don’t belong in the wild 

As foxes move from the forest to the city, they show more doglike traits and appear to be naturally self-domesticating in the U.K. — but the same isn’t happening here at home

A long-term study of white-throated sparrows in Canada found that the birds have mysteriously changed their tune

More research necessary to fully understand edge diffusion, say researchers