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Are Bats Starting to Fight White-nose Syndrome?
Good News for the Little Brown Bat White-nose Syndrome (WNS) first appeared in North America in 2006. This fungus was accidentally brought to North America by people who were exploring…
10 Years of White-nose Syndrome on Canada’s Bats: An Update
It has now been almost 10 years since white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungal disease of hibernating bats, was first found in Canada. There are 19 species of bats in Canada,…
Boreal Caribou Recovery: Status Update
What’s being done to conserve this iconic and threatened species? Boreal caribou are named after the habitat they call home – the boreal forest. These majestic animals are a population…
Mitigating Freshwater Turtle Deaths
Have you ever described what you do at work and been asked: “Okay, but why?” I’ve encountered this fairly often when talking to friends and family about my work with…
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Pollinator Recovery? A Critical Step When Banning Neonics
Pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, moths and flies, play critical roles in ecosystems and in the production of our food. If you’ve eaten an apple or worn a comfy cotton…
Recipe for a Native Meadow
The meadows and prairies in southern Canada are blooming! At the Canadian Wildlife Federation we’ve been busy experimenting by creating native meadows for pollinators at three sites in eastern Ontario.…
LOVE BUGS!
A CWF conservation expert tells us why insects might be our best ecological allies… and why we must act now to prevent a collapse of the world’s bugs. The Canadian…
A New Threat for Bats
When it rains it pours. How can we help bats with this new threat? Canada is home to 19 different species of bats and each and every one of them…
Hola Monarcha!
Guest blogger Donna Cook is a nature interpreter who writes about her recent visit to the Monarch Butterflies’ overwintering grounds in Mexico. Lying down in a high mountain meadow looking…
Celebrating World Soil Day
“Essentially, all life depends on the soil … There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.” ~Charles E. Kellogg These words…