wildlife

From plovers to friends: how a feathery love triangle spurred Canada and the U.S. to save tiny endangered birds

July 19, 2023 10 min. read

After a love triangle among the endangered species causes a heartbroken mother to fly the...

An illustration of a spotted owl sitting on the barrel of a gun.

‘Are you kidding me?’: B.C. sanctions shooting, logging in endangered spotted owl habitat

July 18, 2023 12 min. read

Only one spotted owl remains in Canada’s wild. The B.C. government says it is committed...

A standing grizzly bear looks at at the camera while on a trail

Are bears just misunderstood?

By Karan Saxena

July 15, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, reporter Joy SpearChief-Morris takes us to her summer camp days in...

Tourists pose for a photo in front of a cutout of a black bear in Waterton Lakes National Park

Bears aren’t as deadly as you’ve been taught

By Joy SpearChief-Morris

July 13, 2023 12 min. read

In Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, Parks Canada is hiring Indigenous employees...

It's hard to study how birds change their behaviour due to wildfire, but in 2020 researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey got lucky. When migrating Tule Geese wearing GPS trackers for an unrelated study encountered a dense plume over Washington, researchers watched them fly in disorganized paths and taking rest stops as if waiting for the worst to pass. One goose ended up in Idaho, where Tule Geese had never been observed before.

Scientists are figuring out how boreal forest wildfires affect our feathered friends

July 7, 2023 8 min. read

In June, wildfire smoke originating in Quebec descended upon the eastern United States, turning skies orange...

A firefighter works to suppress the massive Shaw fire

‘Why didn’t they stop this fire?’ Métis community reeling after planned protected area goes up in flames

By Michelle Cyca

June 13, 2023 12 min. read

For years, residents of Île-à-la-Crosse have been fighting to protect huge swaths of boreal forest....

Provinces and territories commit to national biodiversity strategy — here’s what it means for nature

By Ainslie Cruickshank

May 26, 2023 9 min. read

Five months after COP15, governments in Canada agree to work together to protect the country’s...

The Coastal GasLink right of way was partially submerged, with the surrounding water seemingly clouded by sediment from the worksites.

Clouds of mud, from above, on a flight over Coastal GasLink work

May 25, 2023

We talk with northwest B.C. reporter Matt Simmons about what he saw on a flight...

Snow-covered mountain range

The last 33 caribou: fighting for the survival of a Wet’suwet’en herd

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

May 17, 2023 17 min. read

Surrounded by industrial development and human habitation, less than three dozen caribou remain on Wet’suwet’en...

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