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2014
5 Colourful Birds That’ll Keep the Winter Blues Away
If the winter is feeling rather bleak and long, just look to your backyard for some life! We’ve got five brightly coloured birds that’ll liven up your backyard and how…
Are Reindeer and Caribou the Same Animals?
Don’t worry…it’s all in the family. The good news. Rudolph’s got family right here in Canada. The bad news. They’re not siblings. Researchers mapped the genetic diversity of the Rangifer…
How to Help Birds
It’s hard not to love Canada’s wild birds. They can inspire us with their grace and resilience and delight us with their songs, beautiful colours or comical antics. Many of…
Helping Yukon River Salmon Make It Home
This article was extracted from Say Magazine, Issue 110, with permission. A four-year collaborative project led by the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has explored what is happening to salmon migrating…
How Technology Helps Wildlife
What technology is used to help us understand and conserve wild species? Technology and nature may seem like polar opposites. After all, a growing reliance on technology tends to decrease…
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…
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Vote Wildlife
Fish don’t get to ban chemicals in their streams. Birds can’t vote to reduce urban light pollution. Lakes and rivers have no standing in environmental hearings. Bears don’t have a…
Ixnay On The Nics, Eh?
Is it time for an official Canadian ban on neonicotinoids for their devastating effect on bugs, birds and humans? Most experts say yes. When neonicotinoid insecticides came into wide-spread use…
Prophets of Loss
Sometimes it’s the little things that reveal the big picture. Consider a recent paper in Nature about how plants in the tundra, the coldest ecosystem in the world, are growing…
Playing on Your Phone Can Help Conserve Wetlands
You can conserve wetlands. That’s right. I said it. Just to be clear: You can conserve wetlands. Many parts of southern Canada have lost more than half of their historical…