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  • Eel Update

    2025-12-05

    Still a Bad Deal for the American Eel

  • Setting the Record Straight on Right Whales

    2025-12-05

    A Response to the NRDC’s report Net Loss: The Killing of Marine Mammals in Foreign Fisheries

  • Protecting the Ocean

    2025-12-05

    CWF at the International Marine Protected Areas Congress

  • The Mount Polley Mine Spill

    2025-12-05

    What really happened on that dreadful day, and how do we avoid more?

  • Supporting the Snapping Turtle

    2025-12-05

    We’ve released 4,000 Snapping Turtles in the Muskoka and Lake Simcoe area!

  • Cleaning up a Wetland Wonderland

    2025-12-05

    An $11,800 grant from the Canadian Wildlife Federation to the BC Wildlife Federation’s Wetlandkeepers program helps ensure a future for British Columbia’s wetlands. 

  • Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale

    2025-12-05

    Entanglement is taking its toll on this Endangered species.

  • Protecting the Sauger

    2025-12-05

    CWF recently donated $10,000 in funding to the Lac Saint-Pierre Zip Committee for their research efforts on protecting the sauger fish through the identification of spawning grounds and migration patterns.  The sauger, a North American fish that belongs to the perch family, is considered the most economically valuable species in Canada’s inland waters as well as a major importance for the sport fishing sector, especially in Quebec.  The change in recent years in size of the walleye and the sauger, as well as the decreasing quantity of the species demonstrates signs of problems in the population.   

  • Trying Times for the Western Painted Turtle

    2025-12-05

    CWF is supporting one of Canada’s most colourful creatures – the at-risk western painted turtle

  • Show some love

    2025-12-05

    Do you enjoy summers at the cottage? If so, check out the Love Your Lake program. Your lake — and its ecosystem — will thank you.