A Winnipeg not-for-profit working to see a million new trees planted in the city over the next two decades is doubling its efforts to get tree seedlings into the hands of budding back-yard arborists this year. Tree Winnipeg’s ReLeaf program has been providing hundreds of trees for Winnipeggers […]
Home to around one-third of the world’s endangered mountain gorilla population, Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is hugely important to global conservation. This video from TerraMatters gives some more insights on the current state. If you are interested in more, check out Virunga on […]
Southern Alberta’s weed grazing goats are back at it again. Through a pilot project, they’re helping the Blood Tribe with their fight against the leafy spurge — an invasive weed threatening the diverse plant species on the reserve. “We have such a vast amount of land here and […]
The Vancouver Aquarium will shut down again on September 7th, saying it’s losing too much money with COVID-19 restrictions on visitors. The aquarium says it will be a different attraction when it re-opens. See more on Global News here.
Although bears occasionally walk through main street in Revelstoke BC, Canada, this is the first one a black bear explores the local liquor store on the inside!
Scientists have long theorized that an oddly-shaped skull found nearly three decades ago belonged to a narwhal-beluga hybrid, but couldn’t confirm it until now After a mysterious skull sat in a museum for almost three decades, scientists have finally used it to confirm the existence of a narwhal-beluga […]
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Two more Asian giant hornets have been found in Washington state, just 13 kilometres from B.C.’s border. The insects, formally known as Vespa mandarinia but sometimes called ‘murder hornets,’ are invasive to the region and known to devastate honeybee colonies. In July, the WSDA captured its first-ever live Asian giant […]
Analysis shows temporarily stopping fishing would lead to gains of up to 10 times above the status quo after 30 years. At least a quarter of major fish stocks in Canada are in decline, but efforts to rebuild them — such as closing fisheries or setting catch limits […]
A year ago in June and July wildfires in the Arctic had released as much carbon as Belgium does in an entire year — an unprecedented summertime burn that would amplify the region’s climate change–fueled fever. But everything, apparently, is worse in 2020, including the climate toll of this year’s Arctic […]
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