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Exploring Barriers to Free-flowing Rivers on World Fish Migration Day
May 21 is World Fish Migration Day. The day is celebrated every two years and is intended to raise awareness about the importance of migratory fish and free-flowing rivers. So,…
Cross Creek Fish Passage Restoration
Cross Creek — Nedut’en of the Witsuwit’en Lake Babine Nation — runs through the center of Pendleton Bay Provincial Park. In 2021, the crossing under Babine Lake Road was replaced…
Flooded with Hope for Salmon
The devastating floods in British Columbia have shattered roads, homes, businesses and communities. But they have also raised hopes that together we can build back better, prioritizing not just how…
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 To Remove a Dam: A Case Study
A key motivation for many dam removals is their aging infrastructure. Dams have limited lifetimes, large numbers of which have now been exceeded and need to be decommissioned responsibly. It…
Making it Easier to Go With the Flow
A new dam database allows experts to target freshwater connectivity barriers. The connectivity of our freshwater ecosystems – rivers, streams, and lakes – has been a topic of increased public…
Let’s Focus on Fish
Did you know that more than half of Canada’s freshwater fish are at risk of extinction? We have lost 13 species or unique populations (10 are already Extinct, three are…
More Pacific Salmon and Trout Can Now Go Home
Broad Scale Efforts Underway to Restore Fish Passage Across B.C. An elevated stream culvert may mean nothing more than simple road maintenance to us. But to a Pacific salmon desperately…
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Thankful for Wildlife in 2020
This was an interesting year for Canadians — and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. In March, when our scientists and educators were gearing up to start their summer field season, COVID-19…
