Bird News
A research project on Vancouver Island is working on the problem of estuarine marshes being damaged by expanding populations of Canada Geese.
An innovative restoration technique for the Lewis’s woodpecker is underway in BC, with workers creating rot in the heart of healthy trees so the bird will nest.
Mammal News
A new study in Banff National Park aims to determine how the Trans-Canada highway affects wolverine movement and dispersal.
A Vancouver Island family is fighting a provincial government plan to trap and drown beavers on their property, claiming the action is inhumane.
Environmental groups in Atlantic Canada are asking governments to bar a Halifax company from carrying out seismic testing in the habitat of the endangered blue whale.
A cougar that killed 11 sheep on a British Columbia farm was shot dead by conservation officers.
Students at two schools in northern Saskatchewan were told to stay indoors after a pair of cougars was spotted nearby.
Fish News
Scientists and First Nation representatives say toxins from the Alberta oilsands are damaging fish in the Athabasca River.
Ecosystem News
Environmental groups are fighting to stop a Brazilian mining company from dumping 400,000 tonnes of toxic tailings a year into a Newfoundland lake.
Scientists from The Nature Conservancy of Canada have catalogued the biodiversity on more than 32,000 islands in the Great Lakes.
Suncor has reclaimed a tailings pond by filing in a 2.2-square-kilometre area and planting 630,000 trees, bushes and shrubs.
Federal and provincial governments have committed to reduce blue-green algae blooms and restore the ecological integrity of Lake Winnipeg.
Freshwater levels in southern Canada dropped 8.5% between 1971 and 2004, at an average 3.5 cubic kilometres a year.