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Aerial Acrobatics
Today, Canada’s athletes are competing in the aerials competition. Skiers from across the country, like Travis Gerrits, Sabrina Guérin, and Melissa Corbo, will be dazzling spectators with flips, spins and…
Long Distance Darlings
In the upcoming days, Canadian athletes will take part in various cross-country events ranging from Relay to Men’s 50 kilometre Mass Start. After learning how far Canadian wildlife travels, the…
Opening Ceremonies
This Olympic season, our own wildlife athletes from across Canada will be awarded medals based on their amazing speed, strength and agility. Stay turned over the next 16 days, as…
Three Bat Species are Recommended to be Listed as Endangered
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF/NB MUSEUM] This blog is written by Allysia Park – the Canadian National White Nose Syndrome Coordinator: The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada…
Spooky and Endanger-ous!
Congratulations to Janice Radowits of Abbotsford, BC for receiving the most votes in the “By Popular Vote” monthly photo contest! “The sun hit the spider web just the right way…
Have You Seen Any Of These Caterpillars?
[PHOTO CREDIT: BRENDA DEROCHE – CWF PHOTO CONTEST] They are called wooly bear caterpillars and this fall my family and I are seeing a lot of them – mostly on…
There’s Been Another Escape
There’s been yet another salmon escape from a fish farm. One aquaculture company on the south coast has lost 20,000 salmon from a sea cage. Salmon escapes like this are…
Monarchs Still In Decline
[CWF PHOTO CONTEST PICTURES SUBMITTED BY – LEFT: BILL MCMULLEN, MIDDLE: DEBBIE OPPERMANN, RIGHT: MARY HINDLE] In an article I read this morning, monarch numbers in last winter’s annual survey…
Bat Citizen Science Opportunities
[CWF PHOTO CONTEST PICTURE SUBMITTED BY JADENE GRIMON] There are several programs in Canada focusing on bat citizen science. They generally fall into these areas: reporting maternity colonies; emergence counts…
