Endangered Species & Biodiversity
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Five Fun Facts About Pacific Salmon
2025-12-05
Pacific salmon are some of the most iconic fish species in Canada.
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Q&A With a Fish Harvester: On-Demand Fishing as a Solution to Mitigate North Atlantic Right Whale Entanglements
2025-12-05
Looking Through a New Lens at the Fishing Industry and Marine Wildlife
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Ramping Up Efforts To Protect The Monarch Butterfly
2025-12-05
A national not-for-profit wildlife conservation group is expanding its efforts to protect the Monarch butterfly, which frequents areas of Chatham-Kent. The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has established networks across eastern and southern Ontario and partnered with agricultural producers, municipalities, and conservation authorities in an effort to create meadow habitats for the insects.
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The Decline of the Monarch Butterfly: Dr. Carolyn Callaghan
2025-12-05
The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Dr. Carolyn Callaghan talks about the steep decline of the Monarch butterfly and what we can do to protect this endangered species.
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What is a prairie?
2025-12-05
If asked this question, many Canadians might imagine wheat and canola fields extending as far as the eye can see.
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New research shows even small ships pose deadly threat to North American right whales
2025-12-05
“We’ve shown clearly that small vessels can be a threat to whales. We’ve shown that very light, but fast-moving vessels like trans-oceanic racing sailboats can cause potentially lethal injuries to whales, so it means if you’re in a vessel on the ocean, you may be a threat to these animals,” says Sean Brillant, an adjunct in the Department of Oceanography, and Senior Marine Biologist for the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
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Redrawing the Arctic’s Wildlife Map
2025-12-05
Beavers in the Arctic? That’s right, you read it correctly. When you picture the Arctic, what comes to mind? Snow, ice, frigid temperatures, and perhaps the iconic Polar Bears, seals or reindeer. But the Arctic is changing. The effects of climate change are transforming this vast tundra, opening the door for wildlife to venture into the region in ways never seen before.
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Offshore oil exploration in N.L. often occurs without wildlife monitoring
2025-12-05
Fog, darkness, high waves make environmental observation impossible, while operations continue apace
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Endangered right whales have moved because of climate change — into dangerous waters
2025-12-05
At the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Christy Hudak, a researcher in the Right Whale Ecology Program, leaned over a microscope looking at a water sample, counting and categorizing different kinds of plankton.
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Ontario Scrapping the Endangered Species Act: What You Can Do About It
2025-12-05
For nearly 20 years, the Endangered Species Act of Ontario has helped protect Ontario’s most threatened species and their habitat. But now the Act itself is at risk of becoming an endangered species.
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