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Air Pollution is Hurting Our Pollinators
In Canada a shocking 86 per cent of Canadians live in regions with unhealthy levels of air pollution. These levels are due to natural sources of air pollution like forest…
CWF Certified: Cascade Green Park’s Butterfly Garden
British Columbia’s Sechelt Garden Club created a butterfly garden in a local park which has since been certified as “Wildlife-friendly Habitat” through CWF’s Garden Habitat Certification program. A member of…
Partnering With Ranchers to Conserve Vulnerable Grassland Wildlife
When the job is this big, you need good partners Many of Canada’s most iconic and vulnerable animals — wild bison, Pronghorn, Prairie Dogs, Burrowing Owls, Sage Grouse, Swift Foxes…
Paving New Pathways for Canada’s Pollinators
We’re inviting our pollinators back into our neighbourhoods and rights-of-way corridors! Bees, flower flies, butterflies, moths, wasps and beetles are pollinator species that support our economy and environment. These unsung…
Falling in Love with Atlantic Canada and the Canadian Conservation Corps
Author Paul Emerson Almontero is a participant of the Canadian Conservation Corps. Through the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Canadian Conservation Corps Program, I was able to explore and fall in love…
The Call of Freedom
How Conductor Harriet Tubman Used the Call of the Barred Owl to Guide Enslaved People to Freedom “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?” The call of the Barred…
Do Animals Hug?
The Answer is a Bit More Complicated and Nuanced than You Might Think. The benefits of hugging in humans is pretty significant. A simple 20-second hug can release a powerful…
Will This Year See a Drop? Waiting for the Annual Monarch Butterfly Count
Now that we are into the year of 2023, we anxiously await the annual count of the overwintering Monarch Butterfly’s population in Mexico. Historically, the number of hectares of winter…
Reflections of Nature
The desire to capture a moment so it can last for all time must be a fundamental aspect of our nature. As far back as we explore human history, we…
Case Study: Ranchers’ Perspectives on a Successful Grassland Conservation Incentive Program
Cattle ranchers in the Milk River watershed, Saskatchewan, participated in a federally funded program by taking voluntary actions to support rangeland sustainability, habitat conservation and recovery of species at risk.…
