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More Pacific Salmon and Trout Can Now Go Home
Broad Scale Efforts Underway to Restore Fish Passage Across B.C. An elevated stream culvert may mean nothing more than simple road maintenance to us. But to a Pacific salmon desperately…
Virtual Road Trip: Paddling Canada’s West Coast
Final Stop! Get ready to explore the wild, untamed beaches and lush coastal temperate rainforest of Vancouver Island – the final stop on our virtual cross-Canada road trip. Home to…
Virtual Road Trip: Hiking the Arctic Tundra
Welcome to Sachs Harbour, the northernmost community in the Northwest Territories! Known as Ikaahuk, “Place to which you cross”, by the Inuvialuit people, this area features vast and wild tundra…
Canada Day – Kicking off our Virtual Canadian Road Trip
Welcome to the first stop on our virtual cross-country road-trip – Ottawa! We’re kicking off our summer exploration in our nation’s capital, just in time for Canada Day. Join us…
Beat the Heat: How to Help Wildlife Stay Cool
Who doesn’t love basking in the hot summer sun? Our wildlife friends also appreciate the warmer weather – you’re likely seeing plenty of birds in your backyard and spotting butterflies…
Spring Means Returning Wildlife, Including Mother Bats
As spring sets in, bats are waking up from hibernation or migrating back from their southern winter homes. Due to current concerns regarding bats and COVID-19, the return of bats…
Things You May Not Recycle but Should
Let’s do our part to reduce landfill waste By now, we should all know the basic items that can be recycled through Canada’s blue bin system – paper, cardboard, glass…
10 Alternatives to Household Plastics
Swap these items to help reduce plastic pollution Look at the five items closest to you – how many of them contain plastic? For many of us, the answer is…
10 Years of White-nose Syndrome on Canada’s Bats: An Update
It has now been almost 10 years since white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungal disease of hibernating bats, was first found in Canada. There are 19 species of bats in Canada,…
Mitigating Freshwater Turtle Deaths
Have you ever described what you do at work and been asked: “Okay, but why?” I’ve encountered this fairly often when talking to friends and family about my work with…