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Bat Festival
I recently attended a Bat Festival! Batman was in attendance and I was lucky enough to get a picture with him.
Bats are not scary!
[PHOTO CREDIT: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Public Domain] Check out these short animations about bats! They promote the idea that bats are not scary. Bats may not be scary…
The Long-Anticipated Visitor
The special annual event that we look forward to in anticipation happened this year on June 11. We arrived home from a walk to find our old friend, Mama Snapping…
Studying Urban Runoff South of the Border
Canada’s waters are international. Our streams and rivers do not pass customs; our watersheds do not care about international laws. They flow from the highest peaks, pass both Canadian and…
CWF’s Recommendations on the Bat Recovery Strategy
In 2014, the Species at Risk Act (SARA) listed the Little Brown, the Northern Myotis and the Tri-colored Bat as Endangered. An emergency meeting was called by Canada’s Committee…
Have you ever seen a Leatherback Sea Turtle nest? Here’s how they do it.
As the Great Canadian Turtle Race draws to a close, we’ve watched our remaining race contender, Agile Abigail, inch ever closer to her Florida nesting beach. She’s only 60…
Why are our turtles disappearing from the map?
I wish we knew! Each time we put a transmitter on a sea turtle we know that we’re sending that scientific instrument out into the ocean. And that is something…
The Many Features of our Oceans
The ocean is absolutely huge! As humans living mostly on land, we often overlook the fact that approximately 70% of the Earth is covered by salt water – that’s 363…