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What Does Canada’s Smallest Fox do in the Winter?
The Swift Fox (Vulpes velox) is our smallest, fastest and least known fox species. They’re a dog, but about the size of a housecat, weighing in at only 1.5 to…
Monarch Butterfly Has a New Status in Canada and What You Can Do
As of December 8, 2023, the Monarch Butterfly has a new status in Canada: Endangered. The previous listing by the federal government was Special Concern (the lowest ranking of concern)…
Updates to the Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database Helps Habitats
We have some exciting news to share about updates to the Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database (CABD)! We’re releasing new versions of our core data layers, filling important data gaps and…
Do Animals Bicker?
Yup! Over everything from how to parent to who should eat first. Politics. Religion. For some reason all sorts of divisive topics of conversation get brought up at holiday dinners…
Leave the Leaves This Fall
It’s late fall in Central Ontario. Most of the deciduous trees have dropped their leaves. The ground is carpeted with a sea of shapes and colours of decayed leaves. Well-meaning…
Nominate Your Nature Heroes for CWF’s National Awards
We are now accepting nominations for the Canadian Conservation Achievement Awards! These awards honour a diversity of Canadians who have made significant contributions to wildlife conservation in Canada. By shining…
Five Tips for Collecting Seeds
One of the pleasures I had in raising my daughter was our time in the garden – smelling flowers, greeting bees and snacking on the wild strawberries that were like…
Beyond the Spookiness: The Unspooky Side of Halloween Creatures
Halloween is right around the corner, and with it comes the spooky season filled with tales of haunted houses, creepy creatures and eerie encounters. While we often associate this time…
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…
Could an All You Can Eat Buffet Be the Answer to White-nose Syndrome?
Scientists are fighting the disease with bugs, bugs, and more bugs Scientists stumbled upon White-nose Syndrome in North America in 2006. It is an alarming disease that presents as a…
