Ainslie Cruickshank
Ainslie Cruickshank is a Vancouver-based journalist. She was The Narwhal's biodiversity reporter and has written for The Walrus, The Toronto Star and StarMetro Vancouver. Ainslie has worked in the Yukon, Ontario, Alberta and B.C. covering politics as well as the environment and natural resource issues. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Carleton University and an MA in public and international affairs from the University of Ottawa.
Stories by Ainslie Cruickshank
The worst house guests: European green crabs are invading B.C. waters
13 min. readA monumental effort is underway to contain the spiny creatures, the bodies of which are...
‘A century in the making’: Canada adds federal protection to Indigenous-declared marine refuge
When the Mamalilikulla First Nation unilaterally declared an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area in their...
‘Serious scientific failings’: experts slam DFO report downplaying threat of salmon farms
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada study found no significant link between sea lice at B.C....
Loggers warned to steer clear of newly mapped old-growth forest patches in central B.C.
Mapped areas follow watchdog investigation that found biodiversity may be at ‘high risk’ in Prince...
B.C. rejects open-pit mine in caribou habitat. Is this a shift for endangered species?
The rejection of the Sukunka coal mine over impacts to the dwindling Quintette herd has...
Canada made big promises to save nature at COP15. Will it follow through?
196 countries set new global targets to stop the biodiversity crisis. The test now is...
Indigenous guardians connected by new national network in Canada — the first of its kind in the world
The First Nations Guardians Network will streamline funding and capacity-building opportunities for guardians — the...
Trudeau’s conservation promises met with questions about how Canada defines protected areas
The prime minister says some resource extraction could still be allowed in conserved areas as...
‘We have to be ambitious’: Canada’s lead biodiversity negotiator on what’s needed at COP15
As the number of plants and animals declines faster than at any other point in...