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Doing Right by the Right Whale // Pour affranchir les baleines franches des périls qui les guettent
Even the mighty can fall. The North Atlantic right whale may weigh in at 70 tonnes and reach 17 metres in length, but these massive mammals are in some serious…
Some Good News for Canada’s Bats
[PHOTO: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] Last week Environment Canada committed $330,000 over the next four years for White-nose Syndrome (WNS) research and monitoring. WNS is a fungal disease that is threatening…
Bat Hibernaculum Surveys Started Last Week
[PHOTO: NB MUSEUM] We started bat hibernaculum surveys last week and the news is not good. Of the 3 caves we visited, one had 2 dead bats, another had 12…
It Isn’t Good News For Monarch Butterflies
[CWF REFLECTIONS OF NATURE PHOTO CONTEST BY DEBBIE OPPERMANN OF ONTARIO] It isn’t good news for monarchs. Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada and the United States to spend their winter…
Canadian White-Nose Syndrome Workshop
WNS Workshop Participants- [PHOTO CREDIT: MICHELLE JAUVIN – WNS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS] From October 16-18th I attended the first Canadian white-nose syndrome workshop organized by the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre.…
Upcoming Bat Field Season
The onset of fall means we will be starting our field season soon – in November. I’m really not sure what we will find – presumably there will be SOME bats,…
Bat Update
Image Credit Check out this article in Saltscapes about our bat research!
White-Nose Syndrome: What It Means For New Brunswick’s Bats
The conclusion from our last field season is that White-nose Syndrome (WNS) is spreading rapidly in New Brunswick. By the time we finished our final cave visits in April, 9…
