About "Wildlife"
From polar bears to peregrine falcons, blue whales to bees, find out about Canada’s wildlife, habitats and conservation news.
Rorqual whales take in large quantities of water when lunge feeding. (Photo: Robin Agarwal, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Workers seen on top of the cliff at the Big Bar landslide on the Fraser River in July 2019. Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials said that 99 per cent of early Stuart sockeye and 89 per cent of early chinook salmon were lost that year. The fish couldn’t make it past the landslide. (Photo: Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck)
A caribou, silhouetted by the setting sun, shakes off water after crossing the Leaf River in Nunavik, Quebec's far north. Photographer Jean-Simon Bégin is our Canadian Photographer of the Year. (Photo: Jean-Simon Bégin)
The non-human face of the climate crisis: This eastern grey kangaroo and her joey, encountered near Mallacoota in the state of Victoria, Australia, were among the lucky survivors of intense bushfires that devastated parts of southeastern Australia in the summer of 2019-2020. (Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur/Wildlife Photographer of the Year)
A herd of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on Matveev Island, Russia. (Photo: Yulia Bogomolova/WWF-Russia)
In the Elk Valley of British Columbia, 25 per cent of elk mortalities and 30 per cent of grizzly deaths are due to vehicles. (Photo: Clayton Lamb)
Since the start of satellite records in 1979, the number of days per year that sea ice is present has declined in each subpopulation’s region. (Photo: Andreas Preußer, CC BY-ND 3.0)
Strong winds have been pushing petrels off course and into a number of coastal Newfoundland towns. (Photo: Richard Crossley, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Caribou in Northern Ontario face threats from both climate change and expanding resource development. (Photo: Susan Morse)
