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16 Things You Might Be Forgetting to do for Your Garden
You’ve turned off the water outside. You’ve made brush piles with all the fallen leaves. Your garden’s fully prepared for the winter, right? Well…pretty close! But there are a few…
5 Animals That Light Up the Night!
Hundreds of wild species have proven to glow in the dark. Pretty incredible party trick, right? But how in the heck do they do it? And why? Biofluorescence First, we’ll…
Carbon Trek — The Central Grasslands Living Lab
In one of my favourite episodes of Star Trek (the TV series), the crew of the Starship Enterprise encounters an alien lifeform that is utterly confusing. It’s a blob made…
A Day of Learning, Sharing and Goldenrods
With asters and goldenrods in bloom hinting summers end, the Canadian Wildlife Federation facilitated a roadside pollinator habitat restoration training and tour. In collaboration with Lanark County, it was a…
Enjoy Gardening to the Fullest
Whether it’s time to clear out annual veggie plants in the autumn, get digging in the spring or regular maintenance in between, we all want to do it as comfortably…
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Astounding Migrations
Canadian wildlife are not just ‘winging’ it when it comes to their migration patterns. Migration is a large-scale movement of a species from one location to another, typically in search…
Little Niche on the Prairie
One way or another, we all adapt to our environment. We know this when we get taken from it: a country kid learning to use an urban transit system, or…
The Elusive Sundog
A right whale nicknamed Sundog hit the news in late May 2022, when Fisheries and Oceans Canada declared she was the entangled whale that had been spotted in the Gulf…
Biodiversity on the Farm
The spring and summer are always a special time on our hobby farm. Nesting birds, nesting snapping turtles, night air full of frog calls, duck families and a Great Blue…
Picking Favourites on the Prairies
Nydia Chowdhury is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. Working for the Canadian Wildlife Federation alongside Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada was a…
