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Air Pollution is Hurting Our Pollinators
In Canada a shocking 86 per cent of Canadians live in regions with unhealthy levels of air pollution. These levels are due to natural sources of air pollution like forest…
CWF Certified: Cascade Green Park’s Butterfly Garden
British Columbia’s Sechelt Garden Club created a butterfly garden in a local park which has since been certified as “Wildlife-friendly Habitat” through CWF’s Garden Habitat Certification program. A member of…
Paving New Pathways for Canada’s Pollinators
We’re inviting our pollinators back into our neighbourhoods and rights-of-way corridors! Bees, flower flies, butterflies, moths, wasps and beetles are pollinator species that support our economy and environment. These unsung…
Falling in Love with Atlantic Canada and the Canadian Conservation Corps
Author Paul Emerson Almontero is a participant of the Canadian Conservation Corps. Through the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Canadian Conservation Corps Program, I was able to explore and fall in love…
How to Clean Out a Nest Box
You might be reading this with a call for 15 centimetres of snow in the forecast but winter won’t last forever. Spring is on the horizon. If you forgot to…
The Call of Freedom
How Conductor Harriet Tubman Used the Call of the Barred Owl to Guide Enslaved People to Freedom “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?” The call of the Barred…
Do Animals Hug?
The Answer is a Bit More Complicated and Nuanced than You Might Think. The benefits of hugging in humans is pretty significant. A simple 20-second hug can release a powerful…
Reflections of Nature
The desire to capture a moment so it can last for all time must be a fundamental aspect of our nature. As far back as we explore human history, we…
Biodiversity: How We Can Help the World Reach COP15 Goals
We all know that our biodiversity, or the diversity of life on Earth, is declining. At the COP 15 Biodiversity Conference this December 2022 in Montreal, global leaders adopted a…
The Benefits of Biodiversity
What is the global biodiversity framework about and why does it matter? Canada just hosted an international conference on biodiversity. But what is the global biodiversity framework about and why…
