In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

2025-12-05

Pacific Salmon are a keystone animal. What exactly is a keystone species? A keystone species holds an ecosystem together. They are the glue that holds the health, function, and survival of other species in the ecosystem together, it maintains balance and supports biodiversity.

2025-12-05

Lanark County's experience creating welcoming habitats for butterflies.

2025-12-05

More than 50 years ago, Canada banned the use of the insecticide DDT.

2025-12-05

At the Canadian Wildlife Federation we’ve been busy experimenting by creating native meadows for pollinators at three sites in eastern Ontario.

2025-12-05

When non-native animals, plants and organisms enter a new region due to human activities, they become alien species. If these species begin to flourish at the expense of native ones, they turn invasive, often causing the decline or extinction of local species.

2025-12-05

You’re driving down a back-country road and suddenly there’s a turtle on the road. What do you do? Read on to learn how to move a turtle across the road.

2025-12-05

Monarch populations have declined precipitously over the past decades, largely due to the loss of their breeding host plant, milkweed. One mitigation strategy is to plant milkweed along rights-of-ways. However, many rights-of-ways undergo routine mowing, which can result in egg, caterpillar, and chrysalis mortality.

2025-12-05

The federal government has lifted speed restrictions meant to protect North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after finding that the policy may have been pushing ships closer to the endangered mammals.

2025-12-05

Have you ever described what you do at work and been asked: “Okay, but why?” I’ve encountered this fairly often when talking to friends and family about my work with the Turtle Team at the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

2025-12-05

The event, held under the theme Uniting Conservation Actions-Canada and Global, occurs every four years, and serves as the leading Canadian platform for knowledge and partnerships, bringing together key stakeholders in nature and biodiversity conservation.