Endangered Species & Biodiversity
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Helping Yukon River Salmon Make It Home
2025-12-05
A four-year collaborative project led by the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has explored what is happening to salmon migrating through Traditional Lands of the upper Yukon River.
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How to help turtles in trouble
2025-12-05
All freshwater turtles in Canada are species at risk under federal law. Eight turtles are also on Ontario’s list of species at risk. Spiny softshell, spotted, and wood turtles are endangered – facing imminent extinction or extirpation.
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Variety is Life for Hummingbirds — Photo Gallery
2025-12-05
Here are some of the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Photo Contest images showing Canada’s hummingbirds in their habitat.
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Innovating Hydropower: Fish-friendly Turbines as a Solution to Fish Mortality
2025-12-05
As the world increasingly shifts towards renewable energy, hydropower remains a leading source of electricity. In 2022, hydropower produced more power than all other renewables combined.
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Hatching a Turtle Recovery Plan
2025-12-05
Turtles are in serious trouble. All eight species of freshwater turtles in Canada are listed as Species At-Risk. This makes turtles one of the most endangered groups of wildlife in Canada.
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Four-year study suggests only a third of tagged fish made it through Whitehorse fish ladder
2025-12-05
As a four-year study on Chinook salmon in the Yukon wraps up, CWF contract researcher William Twardek says he is hoping it might raise questions about how fish are navigating the Whitehorse fish ladder.
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What Does #GivingTuesday Mean for Wildlife (and You)?
2025-12-05
It’s #GivingTuesday. #GivingTuesday is a day when we think not of packages and bows, but of those in need this season.
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What if Our Canadian Winter…Disappeared?
2025-12-05
It would mean a radical change for both human life and wildlife in Canada. The simple fact is Canadian winters marked by freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls serve significant purpose for all inhabitants of the Great White North.
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Where the Moose and the Elk Used to Roam
2025-12-05
ildlife populations in Dufferin and Caledon have come and gone over the past few centuries, most dramatically since European settlement. Some species have vanished from the landscape. Others have arrived. Now things are changing again.
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Vanier-based Campus Biodiversity Network hosts the 2023 City Nature Challenge
2025-12-05
For the second year in a row, the Vanier-based Campus Biodiversity Network (CBN) a group of educational institutions working to protect campus greenspace, is co-hosting the City Nature Challenge from April 28 to May 1, 2023, in Greater Montreal, alongside local conservation group Technoparc Oiseaux.
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