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Learning About Our Indigenous Communities’ Way Of Living with The Land
There are Indigenous People across Canada. The three main groups of Indigenous People are referred to as First Nation, Inuit and Métis. The diversity amongst each group includes unique language,…
It’s a Wild Life: Thankful for Canadian Wildlife Supporters
Everyone who works at the Canadian Wildlife Federation has at least one profound memory of how wildlife changed us. This is likely true for almost every Canadian. As Canadians, we…
- Coasts & Oceans
- Connecting With Nature
- Education & Leadership
- Endangered Species & Biodiversity
- Forests & Fields
- Lakes & Rivers
Astounding Migrations
Canadian wildlife are not just ‘winging’ it when it comes to their migration patterns. Migration is a large-scale movement of a species from one location to another, typically in search…
The Elusive Sundog
A right whale nicknamed Sundog hit the news in late May 2022, when Fisheries and Oceans Canada declared she was the entangled whale that had been spotted in the Gulf…
Can New Technologies Mean a New Way Forward?
Marine mammals continue to be endangered by entanglement in fishing gear, lethal vessel strikes, chemical pollution, dwindling and changing food sources and disruptive noise from ocean activities. Extinction is only…
Picking Favourites on the Prairies
Nydia Chowdhury is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. Working for the Canadian Wildlife Federation alongside Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada was a…
Stranger in a Strange Land
Daniel Vladimir Nava Toxqui is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. As a wildlife biologist, your office is pretty much anywhere you…
Summer of Work and Learning at Grasslands National Park
Joshua Exner is a summer student who worked with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s grasslands team. I was fortunate to work as an Insect Field Technician for the Canadian Wildlife Federation…
RED LIST UPDATE: Monarch Butterfly Now Listed as ‘Endangered’
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced last week their listing of the migratory monarch butterfly as Endangered on its ‘Red List of Threatened Species.’ This decision is…
Getting WILD Outside With CWF’s Turtle Team
On a blustery Saturday afternoon in early May 2022, 10 WILD Outside Ottawa participants came to the Canadian Wildlife Federation headquarters in Kanata and decorated our sidewalks with some amazing…
