Bird News
The Red-tailed Hawk, which only visits Canada in the summer months, is the leading contender for Canada’s national bird. Vote for the bird of your choice on this website.
The Central Okanagan Regional District Board has entered into a stewardship agreement with B.C. Ministry of Environment to protect Western Screech Owl habitat in local regional parks.
Severe weather and predation by bald eagles have nearly wiped out a Great Blue Heron nesting colony on Protection Island, BC.
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling site in the Gulf of Mexico is threatening the winter nesting grounds of many Canadian migratory birds.
Birdwatchers in Manitoba are being sought to help document nesting species for the new Manitoba Breeding Bird Atlas.
Mammal News
A Grey whale seen off the coast of Israel is thought to have come across a now ice-free North West Passage from the Pacific Ocean.
The government of Prince Edward Island has begun a campaign to cull the beaver population on the island, citing the problems they cause by building dams and blocking culverts.
A wildlife ecologist with the BC Ministry of Forests and Range says a proposed wind-power development creates a significant risk to the endangered Woodland Caribou.
The Alberta provincial government has been accused of ignoring scientific evidence and delaying protection of grizzly bears for political reasons.
Officials have not yet determined what killed the eight harbour porpoises that washed ashore on Vancouver Island in the past week.
Fish News
As part of a global research effort to track the movements of ocean creatures, researchers will be implanting about 25 satellite tags and 70 electronic tags into sharks and halibut, and will sink about 70 acoustic receivers into waters around Nunavut.
Fish stocks in the Fraser River have fallen so steeply that there has been no commercial or recreational fishing since 2004, and First Nations people say the river is now dead.
A recently completed study found that Long Point Bay’s commercial fishery doesn’t have an impact on species at risk.
Atlantic Cod populations are now at historic low levels, and environmental groups want them listed as an endangered species.
Insect News
Researchers from three Canadian universities are heading north this summer to study how climate change is affecting insect populations.
The city of Kelowna, BC has obtained permits from the province to kill the caterpillars of the Douglas Fir Tussock Moth, which are striping trees bare in the region.
Ecosystem News
BC’s Coastal First Nations alliance has publicly declared an outright ban on a proposed oil pipeline from Alberta and subsequent oil tankers running through the north Pacific coastal waters.
There are fears that regulations proposed by New York state to eliminate invasive species in the Great Lakes could shut down the entire St. Lawrence Seaway shipping industry in 2012.
More than 90 species have been observed in a newly established ecosystem under the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Abandoned tar ponds and coke ovens sites in Nova Scotia are being restored with a trail system, tidal marshes, wetland parks and wildlife stations.