Endangered Species & Biodiversity
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National Wildlife Week challenge in Richmond
2025-12-05
This year, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is encouraging Canadians to join their “be on with nature challenge,” while practicing physical distancing during COVID-19.
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2019 Butterfly Population Stabilizing
2025-12-05
Canada can do more to help the monarch, says the Canadian Wildlife Federation's Carolyn Callaghan.
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Nature app helps pique interest in the great outdoors
2025-12-05
Kids will be able to recognize and learn more about the diverse flora and fauna that surrounds us, while contributing data that can be useful for conservationists
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Kitigan Zibi Anishinābeg calls for safe passage for American eels on the Ottawa River
2025-12-05
The western Quebec First Nation is urging the provincial and federal governments to protect American eels from dangerous practices at dams in the upper St. Lawrence River watershed that have severely curtailed their population.
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Give Butterflies a Place to Drink
2025-12-05
Did you know that some butterflies also get their nutrients from damp sand, compost and manure (behaviours called “mud puddling”), as well as from tree sap and moist organic matter like rotting fruit, dung and carrion?
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U.S., Mexico surpass Canada in efforts to restore monarch butterfly habitat
2025-12-05
One of nature’s greatest migrations may be returning to health after a stunning growth in the number of monarch butterflies that fluttered across North America last year. But if populations of the striking black-and-orange aviators are starting to recover, it’s no thanks to Canada, said Carolyn Callaghan of the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
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Right whales could be at increased risk from offshore-drilling project, scientists warn
2025-12-05
Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has launched a new campaign looking for the public’s opinion on what can be done to save endangered whales in Canadian waters — even as reports detail the government’s options.
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‘It’s critical’: new film examines plight of endangered North Atlantic right whales
2025-12-05
When journalist Nadine Pequeneza started working on her new documentary Last of the Right Whales, she had never seen one up close in its natural habitat.
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Monarch monitoring blitz begins on County’s south shore
2025-12-05
More than 50 participants gathered on the County’s South Shore Saturday in hot and humid weather to learn how to observe and monitor Monarch eggs, caterpillars and adult butterflies.
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Monarch on the Prairies?!
2025-12-05
Many older residents of the Canadian prairies talk of seeing large numbers of Monarch Butterflies flying about in the summer.
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