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7 Ways to Make Your Backyard a Haven for Small Mammals This Fall
Everybody needs a safe space they call home – even small mammals. We’ve got seven things that you might already have in your backyard that will make your space their…
- 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…
Down By The Bay: Releasing Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings Near My House
A Little Help for 15 Little Friends I’ve been working for the Canadian Wildlife Federation for a few years now. I’m quite familiar with our freshwater turtle conservation program and…
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…
6 Tips to Keep Cats Away From the Wildlife in Your Backyard
Cats. Canadians have welcomed these little fluffballs into their homes for hundreds of years. They’re so cute, it might be hard to wrap your head around just how dangerous they…
Do Animals Have Personalities?
If Disney has taught us anything, it’s the appreciation for the universal entertainment value of anthropomorphism – the attribution of human characteristics or behaviours to, amongst other things, animal species.…
The Death Toll of Spraying for Mosquitoes (Spoiler: It’s Not Just Mosquitoes That Die)
It’s summer — mosquito season in Canada. I’ve been noticing a lot of signs advertising mosquito control services for homeowners. I decided to investigate further. The services offer to spray your…
Counting Monarchs
Winter Monarch counts for 2021-22 were released this past May 2022. Overwintering Monarchs Butterflies occupied an area of 2.85 hectares in Mexico in winter 2021-2022. This count happens every year…
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…
Creating Paradise In My Backyard: A Photo Gallery
Guest blogger Kristin Duff is a wildlife photographer and a CWF Wildlife-friendly Certified Gardener. It was in 2016, three months after I retired that I met a man that would…
