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Conservation News
 February 28th - March 6th

 
National 
Will climate change outpace species adaptation?
McGill Newsroom
Many species might be left vulnerable in the face of climate change, unable to adapt their physiologies to respond to rapid global warming. According ... 
Academic Publication Highlights Need for Indigenous Leadership in Conservation Finance
Coast Funds
The reconciliation protocol that established the co-management of these islands was supported through Coast Funds' conservation finance. Photo by ... 
News of what orcas eat supports conservation efforts
Radio Canada International (en)
News of what orcas eat supports conservation efforts · Scientists have analysed whale poop and scales from the fish they have eaten to determine what ... 
Canadians encouraged to protect, connect with nature through online tool
CityNews Winnipeg
There's not a lot of protected areas as well within that region. The other one is the other side of eastern Vancouver Island, kind of in the rainshadow ... 
Unique study pinpoints key places to stem biodiversity loss in Canada's south Where nature needs ...
Financial Post
There are significant opportunities in this ecoregion to conserve and restore habitats for species at risk, migratory birds and marine wildlife. The forests ... 
Canada is failing its freshwater fish populations
The Globe and Mail
Invasive species alter food webs and compete with native fish, pollution from a dizzying array of chemicals, light and noise, fragmentation of ... 
Freshwater fish across the globe at risk of extinction: study
National Observer
The global population of megafish is down by 94 per cent, and 16 freshwater fish species were declared extinct last year. The report by 16 global ...
Canada can't 'power past coal' and keep exporting it, environment group says
paNOW
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions ... created with the United Kingdom three years ago to lobby the world to eliminate coal as a source of energy. 
The Government of Canada announces the Environmental AssessmentDecision for the ...
Canada NewsWire
The decision on the project follows a thorough, science-based environmental assessment process, which concluded it is not likely to cause significant ... 
Marine group calls for stricter fishing gear rules after right whale death
CBC.ca
The endangered species, of which there are just about 366, migrates annually to waters such as the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to feed ... 
These songbirds may face bigger problems than we thought from climate change
CTV News
TORONTO -- Climate change is leaving many animals with worrisome futures. Others, though, seem better equipped to adapt. Scientists have long ... 
Ottawa unveils proposed federal carbon offset emission credit regulations
CTV News
Environment and Climate Change Canada says one credit will be issued for each tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent reduced or removed from the ... 
Renewable Industries Canada Submits Comments on Government of Canada's Proposed Clean ...
Regina Leader-Post
RICanada's key recommendations to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) on the proposed regulation are: Maintain the proposed .. 
CANADA: How communities use DNA tool to keep tabs on freshwater quality
OrilliaMatters
Many of Canada's 25 watersheds are under threat from pollution, habitat degradation, water overuse and invasive species. about 11 hours ago By: ... 
Agriculture key to meeting Paris goals, but documents suggest feds avoiding change
The Battlefords News-Optimist
“The attitude is that action on climate change is not (Canada's) problem,” ... The environmental organization was the first to obtain the 2019 briefing ... 
How natural gas is emerging as both villain and saviour in the climate changebattle
CBC.ca
At his office in Calgary, he describes how interest in his business has grown exponentially by increased awareness about climate change and the ...
 
British Columbia
BC cattle company wins appeal; ranch entitled to restrict public access to 2 lakes near Merritt
Globalnews.ca
In B.C., bodies of water are considered Crown land, and are available for public use. However, if they're surrounded by private property, can the public ... 
BC conservation officer fired for not killing two bear cubs sues for job reinstatement, back pay
National Post
Bryce Casavant, who was fired as a conservation officer for refusing his supervisor's order to shoot two orphaned bear cubs in 2015 is suing to get his ... 
A BC conservation officer and the RCMP teamed up to wrangle some wayward horses.
Castanet.net
Earlier this week, conservation officer Joel Kline and a youth employment program participant were heading north from Clinton when a call came in ... 
Misinformation, polarization impeding environmental protection efforts
UBC Faculty of Medicine
We wanted to know if these issues were also a problem for people working to conserve biodiversity. “Conservation is not perfect and things can go ... 
Evan Saugstad: Wildlife management in BC – Is it effective in our northern wilderness?
Alaska Highway News
Grizzly bear hunting needs to be reinstated. There are no shortage of bears and in these northern areas, no conflict with the bear viewing industry as ... 
New plane will double DFO's surveillance capacity in BC
WellandTribune.ca
This new capacity is critical to reach remote protected areas. “We'd like to spend a lot more time outside of our traditional patrol sites, because what ... 
Shíshálh Nation demands action after burial site reportedly desecrated by logging
CBC.ca
... as the existing Heritage Conservation Act remains in place, shíshálh's basic right to its own cultural heritage is violated, along with that of Indigenous ... 
British Columbia-based import company ordered to pay $163776 fine for illegally importing ...
Canada NewsWire
The Government fulfills these obligations by observing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ... 
BC researchers turn to sea cucumbers to address aquaculture sustainability
CTV Edmonton
Salmon farmers ask Ottawa for more time before closing B.C. fish farms ... Known popularly as regenerative ocean farming, Integrated Multi-Trophic ... 
Sustainable Environment Network Society seeks halt to old-growth logging in the Okanagan
Castanet.net
Species at risk legislation so that all sensitive and old growth ecosystems are protected forever. The society says current legislation does not do so ... 
Why BC Conservation resists calls to move lynx in Kamloops
iNFOnews
Conservation is resisting pressure to remove a lynx that appears to have taken up residence for several days in a Kamloops park. The animal continues ... 
Indigenous consent comes first and last for BC industrial projects
Vernon Morning Star
The changes to B.C.'s environmental assessment process “turn it on its head,” Environment Minister George Heyman told reporters when the ... 
Lead pollution hung over Trail, BC, for nearly a century. 30 years later, the city's still cleaning up
National Observer
At the same time, the smelter has been a major source of environmental ... the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ⁠level of concern at the time. 
Blockade of old-growth BC forest heading to BC Supreme Court
Globalnews.ca
The battle over a pristine Vancouver Island valley of old growth forest is set to go to court next week, as activists continue a months-long blockade of ... 
The Okanagan Basin Water Board is pushing the province for more action on invasive mussels.
Castanet.net
In August, Chris Doyle of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said half those boats were headed for the Okanagan, while another was en route to the ... 
'Smoke and mirrors': Indigenous groups, conservationists challenge report claiming BC mines have ...
The Narwhal
“Water and wildlife don't recognize borders and so it's up to all of us to protect our critical and priceless watersheds, regardless of jurisdiction,” B.C. ... 
BC asks public for feedback on Joffre Lakes Provincial Park plan
CTV News Vancouver
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government is inviting residents to share feedback on the proposed management of a provincial park that has soared in ... 
Protesters gather at Victoria courthouse as injunction on old-growth logging heard
CTV Edmonton
Forestry company Teal-Jones filed an application for the injunction that ... Much of the region is old-growth forest and activists say if the injunction is ...
 
Alberta 
Skiers pay for Kananaskis trail grooming with monies to spare after government cutbacks
CBC.ca
There are rumours in the cross-country ski community that a park fee system that operates similar to how National Parks charge for daily or yearly access ... 
2 American hunters facing 1-year ban after black bear killed illegally in Alta.
CTV Edmonton
EDMONTON -- Two Americans have been banned from hunting in Alberta for one year and the local company that hosted their hunt owes thousands ... 
Fort McKay Nations Secure Agreement With Alberta For Moose Lake Access Management
Yahoo News Canada
... an area the Fort McKay Nations use for hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering. There will also be no new metallic or industrial minerals extraction ... 
Eagle numbers soar in Calgary
Calgary Herald
... but few realize bald eagles made the U.S. Endangered Species List in 1973 because of illegal hunting, habitat destruction and DDT contamination. 
The Town of Banff is converting wood waste into energy with support from the Government of Canada
Canada NewsWire
Today, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced an investment of approximately $530,000 from ... 
Grey wolf from Bow Valley pack killed by CP train outside Banff
The Crag and Canyon
Canadian Pacific own the railway line through Banff National Park that is used by both freight and passenger trains. Wildlife including wolves and ... 
Alberta Energy Regulator suspends licences of oil and gas producer that owes $67M
Todayville.com
CALGARY — The Alberta Energy Regulator says it is suspending licences for ... and ensure they are left in a state that's safe for the public and the environment. ... “We cannot allow a company that has ignored the rules continue to ...
 
Saskatchewan 
Prairie farmers and ranchers can further enhance biodiversity on their land
Yorkton This Week
Conservation easements are legal agreements between a landowner and DUC to preserve natural features and resources on their land. Under these ... 
'He was waiting for us': Indigenous Sask. hunter says he was unfairly detained by conservation officer
CTV Toronto
But now, he says his young children are "shaken" thinking back to a hunting trip with their dad, leading to another call from the Federation of Sovereign ... 
University of Saskatchewan awarded $6.8M for bison conservation research
Globalnews.ca
University researchers are working with livestock industry and Indigenous communities to develop the world's first bison genome biobank which will ... 
Meewasin prepares for the annual return of the pelicans to Saskatoon
Globalnews.ca
The American white pelican was once on the endangered species list, but ... being the first species to be 'delisted' from the threatened species list in ... 
Research on Sask. rivers and streams used to predict floods and climate change
CTV Toronto
It's one of 170 hydrological monitoring stations in Saskatchewan that are run by Environment and Climate Change Canada. The data collected is for the ... 
Invasive Species a Real Problem Within Saskatchewan
DiscoverMooseJaw.com
The Prussian carp, wild boar and purple loosestrife are all invasive species currently present in Saskatchewan. Though Invasive Species Awareness ... 
Birch Narrows Dene Nation tells Toronto company to leave its territory
Toronto Star
Saskatchewan Indigenous leadership are calling on Toronto-based uranium mining company ... 'Cultural survival' depends on wildlife habitat. 
Wolf shot, unlawfully removed from trap in Saskatchewan: ministry
Globalnews.ca
Wolf shot, unlawfully removed from trap in Saskatchewan: ministry ... under wildlife regulations to touch or interfere with legally placed traps or snares.
 
Manitoba 
Seeking balance on Manitoba's climate file
Winnipeg Free Press
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading authority on climate research, showed in a 2018 report in order to limit warming to ... 
$1 million in provincial grants going towards fisheries, forestry and northern economic development
Thompson Citizen
The provincial government is doling out $1 million worth of grants to grow the forestry and fishery industries as well as economic development related ...
 
Ontario 
Animal group presses Ontario government to act upon coyote-killing contest
Belleville Intelligencer
The legislation prohibits “hunting or trapping for gain” in a number of scenarios including accepting a bounty, Animal Alliance said, citing the law. In his ...
Mississauga Council Advocates Province to Phase out Gas-Fired Power Plants in an Effort to Fight ...
City of Mississauga
“With climate change being a major global issue, we shouldn't be reliant on gas-fired power plants. If the Province continues with their plan, there will be ... 
Queen's engineering researchers get $4.5 million for climate change project
The Kingston Whig-Standard
The work also is meant to find ways to protect ports and harbours against the direct and triggered geotechnical hazards of climate change
Prescribed fires planned in Point Pelee National Park this month
CTV Windsor
WINDSOR, ONT. -- Parks Canada plans to conduct prescribed burns at Point Pelee National Park to help restore some of the park's rare ecosystems ... 
Ford government seeks to expand controversial land zoning powers again over environmental ...
National Observer
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority had been resistant to the idea of issuing a permit for the project, but using new powers from the law ... 
Groups ask for pause to Ring of Fire work until plans in place for clean water, peatlands
National Observer
Canada's federal Impact Assessment Act does not explicitly allow Wilkinson to declare a "moratorium" on assessments, and it offers a relatively narrow ... 
Canada: Ontario Proposes To Consolidate Environment And Land Tribunals
Mondaq News Alerts
a Ministry of the EnvironmentConservation and Parks Director (the ... remediate contamination in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act), ... 
'Code red:' New climate change study finds carbon emissions are steadily rising in Toronto and the ...
Toronto Star
Almost 60 per cent of Toronto's 2018 emissions were from natural gas in buildings, including. GTA. 'Code red:' New climate change ... 
$10000 in Fines and Suspensions for Moose Poaching
Government of Ontario News
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) wants to remind hunters that hunting regulations are in place to ensure sustainable wildlife ...
 
Quebec
Quebec river granted legal rights as part of global 'personhood' movement
CBC.ca
Magpie River's personhood status is a bid to protect it from future threats, such ... Pier-Olivier Boudreault, with the Quebec branch of the environmental ...
Protestors calling on federal government to sign emergency order to save Île-Perrot forest
Globalnews.ca
... species at risk act gives the federal minister of environment the power to sign an order to protect critical habitat of endangered species,” said Tyrrell. 
In moose negotiations, Anishinabeg want moratorium on logging in La Verendrye
CTV Montreal
Quebec minister proposal expected in response to Indigenous calls for ... Algonquin communities protest moose hunting at Quebec wildlife reserve.
 
Maritimes 
Federal plan for Mi'kmaq fishery headed in 'wrong direction' says senator
APTN News
The court ruled that while Marshall broke rules under the fisheries act, no laws were broken. The high court didn't give the Mi'kmaq the right to fish, but ... 
'We absolutely listened': Minister backs livelihood fisheries plan as some First Nations oppose it
Globalnews.ca
The minister said the priority was to get First Nations boats in the water as quickly as possible this year, while respecting conservation concerns. 
Emerald ash borer makes first appearance in Fredericton
CBC.ca
The invasive species that has destroyed millions of ash trees in North America was recently found in the Forest Hill area of Fredericton. Glynn said it's ... 
Green, PC MLAs question new minister on changes to PEI's Water Act
CBC.ca
The holding ponds have always been legal." Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Action Steven Myers says the province now has and will ... 
National Chief Bellegarde urges Ottawa to rethink Mi'kmaq fisheries decision
CBC.ca
Indigenous fishermen in Nova Scotia argue that a 1999 Supreme Court of ... from some fishermen, who called it unfair and bad for conservation
PEI potato growers have new pesticide to fight wireworm
CBC.ca
Invasive species. Until now, Barrett said P.E.I. potato growers have been using other insecticides to fight wireworm, but also changing how they do their ... 
PEI researcher collaborates across borders to learn how climate change will impact lobster
The Guardian
“Everybody talks about, when they talk about global warming, is climate change, but the changes have already happened in the oceans.” Alison Jenkins ...
 
Newfoundland and Labrador
'It is not right': Possible hunt of protected Labrador caribou a recurring concern
CBC.ca
But the presence of hunters in the area has some worried that again this year, the hunt is underway, further jeopardizing the future of the caribou ...
 
Territories 
Arctic might seem remote to many, impacts on it have implications for all, dialogue hears
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Some permafrost will be lost under all scenarios, Schuur said, but by 2050, if actions “keep global warmingbelow two degrees, we would save an ... 
Nunavut judge grants injunction against hunters who protested at mine site
CTV News
About a dozen Inuit hunters blocked the road and airstrip at the Mary River iron ore mine on northern Baffin Island for a week before leaving on Feb. 
Species at Risk Committee to reflect Indigenous, community knowledge
Yahoo News Canada
The N.W.T. Species at Risk Committee (SARC) says its assessments about the territory's species will now better reflect Indigenous and community ... 
Unsellable polar bear hides travel back from auction house to Nunavut
Nunatsiaq News
... current status on the species at risk registry is “Special Concern”: Those species that are particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events ... 
How Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera
CanadianManufacturing.com
To wildlife disease ecologists, an ideal place to test ideas about herd immunity is Mitivik Island, Nunavut. The sea duck colony on this well-demarcated .. 
Yukon First Nations say approving mineral exploration without a land use plan violates their rights
The Narwhal
... to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board stating ... Regional land use plans determine what can and cannot occur in a ... 
'They shouldn't be in the community': Fort Liard resident sounds alarm over bison herds
CBC.ca
... in 1980, as part of the territory's strategy to revive the endangered species. Resident John Gonet said the animals have been running wild in the ... 
Trappers want squatters gone from territory outside Yellowknife, but it's not going to be easy
APTN News
For years, YKDFN have surveyed the land and reported squatters to the territorial government who manage public lands with little progress to slow the ... 
Trappers in Mackenzie Delta may need relief if waters rise
CBC.ca
... Hunters and Trappers Disaster Compensation Fund could exclude harvesters who earn less than 20 per cent of their income from trapping
Northwest Territories moving to address unauthorized use of public land
The Lawyer's Daily
... of the Northwest Territories could face a challenging legal landscape as it moves ahead to tackle a 50-year-old problem of squatting on public land, ... 
NWT committee to incorporate Indigenous knowledge into species at riskassessments
CBC.ca
Species at Risk Committee says process needed to be 'rethought and rebuilt'. CBC News · Posted: Mar 06, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: 4 hours ..
 
International 
Wisconsin Hunters Kill Over 200 Wolves in Less Than 3 Days
The New York Times
The gray wolf lost Endangered Species Act protections last year, prompting a recent hunt that killed at least 216 wolves — far exceeding a quota set by ... 
Butterflies are vanishing out West. Scientists say climate change is to blame.
Washington Post
Scientists say climate change is to blame. The rate of decline is “calamitous," one scientist said, and has implications for crops and the environment. 
Barrett authors first US Supreme Court ruling, a loss for environmentalists
Financial Post
... disclosure because “they reflect a preliminary view – not a final decision – about the likely effect of the EPA's proposed rule on endangered species
'Beautiful' harlequin frogs bred outside Panama for the 1st time
CBC.ca
If the species becomes extinct in Panama, Gray says they could breed more tadpoles in captivity and introduce them back into the wild. "But it would ... 
Indigenous Amazonians sue retailer Casino over rainforest destruction
Financial Post
They included “zero Amazon deforestation, no slave-like labor conditions, no child labor and no invasions of indigenous land or conservation areas. 
Critically endangered orangutan born at New Orleans zoo
National Post
... Asia is threatened by development, mining and palm oil plantations, making the species “critically endangered,” according to the International Union ... 
Study highlights urgent need to monitor legal wildlife trade to reduce emerging zoonotic diseases
News-Medical.net
With three out of four newly emerging infectious human diseases originating in animals, there is an urgent need to monitor the legal trade in wildlife, ... 
Albatros and petrels: roadmap to protect most threatened sea birds at sea
Mirage News
Also, vital strategies of these marine birds (long developmental cycle, ... Catches of Seabirds in Fishing Gears (2012), the Common Fisheries Policy, ... 
Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation says ownership of wildlife in state is legal, but Galapagos ...
kfor.com
“Those are governed under the purview of the United States fish and wildlife service,” Holmes said. “They're so rare,” said Derek Wikel. The owner of ... 
Spanish farmers deeply split as ban on hunting wolves is extended
The Guardian
We humans have hunted and killed all the animals around us because we want everything for ourselves,” says Laura Serrano Isla, who tends her flock ...
 
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