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Mission Biodiversity – Protect Habitats!
Your Mission, Should You Chose to Accept It… Welcome back to our year-long operation to engage Canadians in supporting wildlife and habitat conservation – Mission Biodiversity! Your mission this month…
Education and Science Combine to Improve Our Wildlife Families
In the space where science and education meet, real progress is being made to help Canada’s wildlife. The Canadian Wildlife Federation is implementing evidence-based science and education solutions that are…
More Annual Croplands Means Less Eastern Meadowlarks
Sadly, there has been a decrease of wildlife-friendly pasture lands across central Canada turning in to annual cropland. New research by the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) shows a large and…
Reporting Back: Taking Action for Wildlife in 2024
Ever wonder about the saying “the proof is in the pudding”? It means the value, quality or truth of something must be judged based on its results. In an age…
Invasive Alien Species 101: What You Need to Know
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,…
Grassland Birds are Declining – Insects Could be the Reason
In the last 50 years, bird populations that live in Canada’s prairies have declined by 60 per cent. Given the size of these populations, this means that millions of birds…
Living Life for Living Labs This Summer
At the Canadian Wildlife Federation, we are deeply involved in grassland carbon science. Our interest is not only in mitigating climate change, but also on how efforts to store carbon…
Water in the Grasslands
When you think of Canadian grasslands, do you think dry, droughty, with barren soils blowing in the wind? This photo from the “dirty thirties”; the 1930’s when severe drought combined…
Surprising Secrets to Monarch Migration
Monarch Butterflies are vital players in our ecosystems, serving as umbrella species whose protection benefits a myriad of other creatures in their habitat. Sadly, their population decline has led to…
The prairies are a secret superhero ready and waiting to fight climate change
“…We owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.” This quote, attributed with some doubt to the late Paul Harvey, an American radio farm…
