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Collision course: Making Canada’s cities more bird-friendly
How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.
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How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.
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Also: Climate changed restaurant menus, sandhill cranes in New Brunswick, bears waking up from their slumber — and a pesky woodpecker hits Canada where it hurts
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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.
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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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Plus: Montreal’s mischievous fox, the supersized goldfish invading Canada’s lakes, Arctic fungi under threat and an Indigenous-led movement to collect Canada’s seeds.
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Plus: protecting Canada’s caribou and the struggle of the black spruce
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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
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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.
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“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.
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In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship
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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
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Wildlife names that could use a rebrand
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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One man’s endeavour to save the province’s most endangered snake
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The award-winning marine conservationist shares her passion for seahorses and marine life by encouraging young minds to save tomorrow’s oceans
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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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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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.
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From plants to ants, Canadian Geographic’s 2020 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year Competition showcases the best of the year’s wildlife photography
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An Ontario centre is charting new horizons in wildlife rehabilitation — one reconstructed turtle at a time
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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?
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DNA sequencing like that used to track COVID-19 helps scientists trace the origins of salmon pathogens in B.C.
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Jill Heinerth explores what can we learn from the lifecycle of freshwater mussels
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Report’s author says more needs to be done to stop a global extinction crisis
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And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops
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Plus: Tree species at risk, inbreeding polar bears, and a 20,000-kilometre butterfly chase
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The predatory whale’s scientific name pays tribute to Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death
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Plus: Cross-dressing hummingbirds, tracking genetically modified animals, and Arctic “junk food”
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Plus: Bacterial “first responders,” modelling cod and more marmots
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Plus: Racing to find a vaccine for chronic wasting disease, narwhal “flukeprints” and tool-using polar bears
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Highlights and headlines from the world of wildlife this week
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Researchers used chemical tracers to map the movements of an ancient woolly mammoth
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How Canada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us
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Your weekly CanGeo round-up of wildlife news
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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
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At least 50 species of fish can be found in the Arctic drainage basin in Ontario
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Measuring differences in posing behaviours could help farmers choose the best cleaners to use for sea-lice control
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An essential process has shaped and moulded the lives of migratory birds
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A look at how global warming impacts foundational conditions for entire ecosystems
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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
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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
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A tire preservative is killing U.S. salmon en masse. The same may be happening in Canada.
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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
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The ancient looking coelacanth gained more than 60 genes in relatively recent history
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The smartWhales program relies on industry collaboration
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The goal is to help rejuvenate and restore the habitats of salmon across B.C.
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A memoir by Julia Zarankin
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RCGS Fellow Myrna Pearman offers her tips for a successful winter birding season
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Editor-in-chief and associate publisher Aaron Kylie contributed this chapter to a compilation book about the Canada Jay
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Sydni Long writes about her experience using citizen-reported sightings for the Ocean Bridge program
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The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish
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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
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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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He refers to them as ‘snow machines.’ Photographer Peter Mather has photographed wolverines in the Yukon and on Alaska’s North Slope
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An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer
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Silicon Valley software developers and B.C. conservation biologists create a facial recognition technology with photos of bears in B.C. and Alaska
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Critical property is home to a number of endangered and threatened species
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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
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After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
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From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic
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Celebrating a springtime ritual of polar bear cubs emerging from the dens of Manitoba's famed Wapusk National Park
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By protecting local waterways, the arapaima’s population has already seen a 30-fold increase in the last 10 years
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Rick McIntyre explains the positive impact of wolf reintroduction on the Yellowstone ecosystem
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How much do you know?
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The Vancouver Island marmot, burrowing owl, greater sage-grouse and northern leopard frog are thriving again thanks to the zoo’s efforts
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Algonquin wolves face an uncertain future primarily because they can be legally shot and trapped in many parts of Ontario
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The steps being made are towards Canada’s goal of 25 per cent protection of land and ocean by 2025
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Lead author Aaron MacNeil discusses what this means for coral ecosystems and what Canadians can do to help
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Canadian researchers have found the first case of malignant bone cancer in a dinosaur
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Conflicts with wildlife in Canada continues to be an issue, but there are ways to keep yourself and wildlife safe
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Areas of B.C. are experiencing the emergence of several years of built up mosquito eggs
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Researchers are already seeing the effects of climate change on polar bear reproduction
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The decrease in human activity could be the reason
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IUCN moves right whales to the second-last step before extinction on endangered species list
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Toronto’s waterways play an important role for salmon
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The turtles we keep as pets don’t belong in the wild
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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
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A long-term study of white-throated sparrows in Canada found that the birds have mysteriously changed their tune
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More research necessary to fully understand edge diffusion, say researchers