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Canadian researchers observe how fish species adapt to extreme environmental changes
CTV News
TORONTO -- Canadian researchers have observed how a species of fish evolves adapts to extreme environmental changes in real time, and say that ...
Canada backs down from crop chemical ban, adds restrictions
CTV News
Canada imposed other restrictions to protect bees in 2019. PMRA said ... The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing the chemicals' use.
Dry spring can create wildfire trouble for Western Canada: experts
Castanet.net
A forest fire burns late into the evening northeast of Prince Albert, Sask., on Monday, May 17, 2021. Wildfire conditions are cause for concern this year as ...
Ticks spreading into Canada's urban areas as a result of climate change, scientists say
CTV News
TORONTO -- Climate change has caused tick populations to increase and spread into urban areas throughout Canada, scientists say. Cases of Lyme ...
G7 nations to accelerate efforts to slow global warming
CTV News
LONDON -- Environment ministers from seven leading industrialized nations agreed Friday to accelerate efforts to slow global warming, including a ...
The vicious relationship between wildfires and climate change desperately needs human ...
The Narwhal
With the arrival of the 2021 wildfire season, it's more important than ever to understand how wildfires affect climate change — and vice versa. Avatar.
Could liquefied natural gas be one solution to climate change?
iPolitics.ca
Climate change and the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 have cast Canada's oil and gas producers in the role of bad guys in black hats.
Future of Canadian Air Quality and Related Health Benefits from Climate ChangeMitigation
UWSpace - University of Waterloo
Air pollution has been recognized as the world's largest environmental health risk. Climate change is expected to exacerbate air pollution. Mitigating ...
Oil lobby wants finance minister involved in climate targets
National Observer
A senior executive from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) told the House of Commons environment committee that Bill C-12, ...
Environmentalists press Bank of Canada to be more active on climate change
The Record (New Westminster)
Greenpeace is asking that the Bank of Canada's mandate include addressing climate change when it agrees on its new marching orders with the ...
Mixed reaction in Canada to global energy agency report that says new coal, oiland gas projects ...
CBC.ca
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers called the report unrealistic. "It is critical we remain grounded in the real world, where people need ...
Concerns for whales are raised over using hydrogen peroxide against sea lice
Castanet.net
He's concerned for the whales and for the whale-watching sector if these huge animals, which can reach 12.5 metre long and weigh up to 35 tonnes, are ...
Erin O'Toole says Conservatives' rejection of climate change resolution was 'a distraction'
CBC.ca
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole told CBC News a recent vote by party delegates to reject adding "climate change is real" to the policy book was a ...
British Columbia
Amateur fossil hunter finds 84-million-year-old fossilized turtle on Vancouver Island
Times Colonist
Amateur fossil hunter finds 84-million-year-old fossilized turtle on Vancouver Island. The Canadian Press. May 23, 2021 01:00 AM ...
Conservation offices looking into incident near North Vancouver where a bear clawed a man's leg
Castanet.net
Conservation officers are looking into a bear attack near North Vancouver. According to a post on the Conservation Officer Services Facebook page, ...
Opponents of old-growth logging at Vancouver Island's Fairy Creek escalate protests; RCMP issue ...
The Globe and Mail
Environmental activist Tzeporah Berman, a veteran of forestry protests, was immediately arrested after sitting down with the chained demonstrators.
1.3 million hectares identified as at-risk forests across BC
Castanet.net
... revealed how the numbers were skewed to include already protected areas and 157,000 hectares of second-growth forests open to logging.
BC failing to meet international targets for protecting biodiversity, critical habitat: report
The Narwhal
“Biodiversity is the backbone of life,” said Charlotte Dawe, conservation and policy campaigner for the Wilderness Committee, which co-published the ...
British Columbia a world leader in forest conservation: Resource Works study
Financial Post
The Nation has been a BC leader in charting a collaborative path to forestry management, conservation, and Indigenous economic development. As the ...
Okanagan Nation Alliance calls for protection of grizzly bears
Vernon Morning Star
After a mother grizzly bear and cub were recorded eating garbage on Postill Lake Road near Kelowna on May 11, the Syilx Okanagan Nation Alliance ...
3185 sharks: Canada's largest-ever fin forfeiture leads to $60K fine for BC company
CTV News Vancouver
Blue shark fins can be legally shipped without a permit under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...
Commercial fishing vessel fined for fishing in conservation area off Haida Gwaii
CTV Edmonton
The department says the area was inside a designated national park reserve, marine conservation area reserve and Haida heritage site.
Staff managing BC's forest rec sites overwhelmed, planning falling by wayside
Vancouver Is Awesome
A special report developed by the Forest Practices Board found there has been very little in the way of planning related to recreation assets in public ...
Parks Canada wants to eradicate invasive deer on small island near Victoria
Trail Times
Melissa Banovich, acting superintendent of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, said the animals have been over-browsing local plants, undermining ...
BC teen's 23000-name Coastal GasLink petition gets him an audience with the minister
Vernon Morning Star
“Why do we protect grizzly bears, well it's because we nearly drove them to extinction. Well how about we don't nearly drive our environment to ...
Internal documents reveal DFO suppressed, downplayed threats to this BC endangered species
Alaska Highway News
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada undermined a scientific consensus that spelled out fishing threats to an endangered species in B.C., ...
Significant $45000 Court Order for fishing violations in the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve ...
Canada NewsWire
Protected areas include Marine Protected Areas created under the Oceans Act, National Marine Conservation Areas, and marine portions of National ...
Tree poaching from public forests increasing in BC as lumber hits record prices
CTV Edmonton
Forests Ministry assistant deputy minister. “These trees can be pretty valuable.” While the trees may be lucrative on the black market for thieves, they play ...
Alberta
Coal company asks court to quash order for federal environmental review of expansion
Kamloops This Week
... to toss out a decision by Canada's environment minister that a proposed Alberta mine expansion should get a full federal environmental review.
City to hold engagement sessions for land-use planning projects
EverythingGP
The City of Grande Prairie is holding public engagement sessions surrounding land-use planning for two areas of the city next week. On Tuesday, May ...
Grizzly that killed U of C professor hasn't been found, traps removed
Calgary Herald
Each situation is handled according to its circumstances by Alberta Fish and Wildlife officials, who use standardized guidelines ... sustainable development with Indigenous peoples, and ran wilderness retreat courses in Kananaskis.
Study finds abandoned oil and gas wells place unfair burden on landowners, taxpayers
Energeticcity.ca
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers supports that move, said spokesman Jay Averill. “Accelerating the decommissioning and ...
2 fined $12k for illegal moose killing: Fish and Wildlife
CTV Edmonton
Their investigation revealed Emerson Rose, an unlicensed and non-resident alien hunter, was instructed by his hunting host Michael Bjornson to ...
'We're just in survival mode': Alberta Birds of Prey Centre reopens amid rollercoaster year
CTV Toronto
The centre focuses on rehabilitating injured birds and releasing them into the wild, breeding and releasing endangered species and studying wild ...
Province proposes random-camping fee
Yahoo News Canada
If passed, the bill will amend portions of the Public Lands Act to allow the government to collect fees for recreation on public lands, specifically a ..
Alta. Invasive Species Council wants rural Albertans to Squeal on Pigs with new awareness ...
Prairie Post
Megan Evans, the Executive Director of the Alberta Invasive Species Council is making landowners aware of a growing problem with a new campaign.
Alberta abruptly cancels request for drone surveillance to watch campers on public land
CBC.ca
Posted on Friday, the RFP suggested Alberta Environment and Parks ... proposed to become provincial parks under the previous NDP government, ...
Calgary Zoo celebrates first fisher kit sighting after species reintroduced to Washington State
CTV Toronto
Related Stories. B.C. board says logging beetle-killed wood bad for the fisher, a species at risk · Taking stock of efforts to reintroduce the weasel-like ...
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Greenspace key to healthy, vibrant Winnipeg
Winnipeg Free Press
Biodiversity is the rich variety of life on earth. There is variety in genes, variety in species and variety in ecosystems. Much like a spider's web, everything ...
Manitoba Bear cub's new home at a rescue
Virden Empire Advance
Bear cubs don't fit into a private residence. PHOTO/ Metro image. Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development advises that conservation officers ...
Ontario
Ontario top court weighs in on endangered piping plover case
National Observer
The act makes it an offence to damage or destroy the habitat of more than 175 endangered species of plants and animals, including the piping plover, ...
Town wins right to appeal bird habitat conviction
Brampton Guardian
... 175 endangered species of plants and animals, including the piping plover, ... The birds returned to the Lake Huron beach in 2007 after a 30-year ...
'We're just crushed': Toronto Zoo loses second endangered tiger cub
Toronto Star
The zoo population of Amur tigers could help to diversify the gene pool of the species in the wild, if necessary. “It's so much bigger than just us,” DeJong ...
'It's like a treasure hunt': Meet the Chatham, Ont. woman who's keeping plastic out of the local river
CBC.ca
It's kind of like treasure hunting," she laughs. A few of the the participants in a previous Sydenham River cleanup event, organized by Sally Joyce last fall.
Birds of prey should only be captured for research
TheRecord.com
A few conservation groups such as Ontario Nature, Ontario Field Ornithologists and Niagara Peninsula Hawkwatch objected to the proposal on ...
'Everyone is overwhelmed': Caledon residents call for help amid outbreak of invasive moths
Toronto Star
The LDD moth is a non-native moth species that can cause defoliation of trees in Ontario and Eastern North America. In the caterpillar or larval stage, the ...
Mattagami First Nation member concerned with forestry activity
TimminsToday
In Ontario, forestry activities in Crown (public) forests include harvesting, building roads and bridges for access, forest renewal, maintenance and ...
Rainfall helps forest fire suppression efforts in northwestern Ontario
CBC.ca
Neither fire is under control, although Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) said the area received about 15 mm of rainfall Thursday ...
Gypsy moth caterpillars 'virtually everywhere' in SW Ontario, expert says
CBC.ca
In 2019 the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry surveyed approximately 47,000 hectares of land infected by gypsy moths. In 2020, more ...
NVCA reviews new proposal for changes to Conservation Authorities Act
BarrieToday
UTOPIA – The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) is currently reviewing the Regulatory Proposal Consultation Guide, the first of two ...
Stoney Creek Coun. Clark says he's been cleared of alleged wetland policyconflict
TheSpec.com
Brad Clark says he's been cleared by the city's integrity commissioner to continue opposing a controversial Hamilton Conservation Authority policy ...
Conservation authority privately sold eight-acre Crane property well below assessed value
Yahoo News Canada
Malahide resident Jim Crane, whose great uncle established an Iona Station-based conservation area, has been searching for answers as to why the ...
Beef farmers protest loss of Ontario farmland
Wiarton Echo
Farmland and pastures play a significant role in providing and maintaining habitat for pollinators and species at risk, BFO said. Research has found ...
A roadmap for preserving nature in southern Ontario
National Observer
About two-thirds of the natural cover in that region has already been lost, and although there are scattered conservation areas and provincial parks, ...
Quebec
Montreal billboards to house nest boxes for solitary bees as part of pilot project
signmedia.ca
As part of an environmental approach to biodiversity, the project aims to study solitary bee populations and pollination at newly installed nest boxes at ...
Montréal Space for Life Joins Global Coalition #UnitedforBiodiversity
Canada NewsWire
Biodiversity and all the ecosystems of our planet are now threatened by human activity: these are fragile environments sensitive to disruption. The ...
Maritimes
Families vow to continue land battle in New Brunswick's Kouchibouguac National Park
The Battlefords News-Optimist
Some members of the 67 families who continue the fight with Parks Canada over expropriation are shown in Kouchibouguac National Park in New ...
Parks Canada prepares for piping plovers' summer return
CBC.ca
The piping plover has been listed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Wildlife in Canada since 1985. "Under the Federal Species of Risk ...
Meet the researchers working to save the Acadian Peninsula from climate change
CBC.ca
Extreme weather events caused by climate change are eating away at the coastline of New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula. A small team of ...
Groups demand New Brunswick government take action to protect vulnerable species
WWF-Canada Blog
Patricia Saulis, Executive Director, Maliseet Nation Conservation Council said: “On behalf of our relations in the natural world, MNCC is looking forward ...
NS Mi'kmaq fisher says his movements are being watched and his traps seized by DFO
CTV News Atlantic
-- A Mi'kmaq fisher in Cape Breton is the latest Indigenous fisher to suggest Ottawa appears intent on removing any First Nation's lobster traps that aren't ...
Testing in Nova Scotia confirms algae as substitute for fish oil in salmon farming
CBC.ca
Stefanie Colombo, an assistant professor of aquaculture at Dalhousie University's agricultural campus, says there's potential for the algae oil to be used ...
Newfoundland and Labrador
Territories
Arctic fires, thawing permafrost pose growing threat to climate: study
CTV News
The warming Arctic tundra will make it harder for the world to curb climate change, as thawing permafrost and wildfires release greenhouse gases that ...
Ship noise could damage hearing in marine mammals, research suggests
Nunatsiaq News
Zuzanna Kochanowicz (who goes by Zuzia) recently published findings on the impacts of ship-source noise on marine mammal in Tallurutiup Imanga.
Inuk man hunts down polar bear at midnight
CBC.ca
Once there, he decided to hunt like he has never hunted before … behind an iceberg. Joseph Kuptana says this bear is a big one at nine feet long. ( ...
Dolphin and Union caribou hunt halted
Nunavut News
If further hunting of the caribou herd takes place, it will be a violation of the Nunavut Wildlife Act. An investigation will be launched and enforcement ...
NWT seeking input on trappers and harvesters programs
Cabin Radio
“Harvesting and trapping have been important activities in the NWT since time immemorial. These traditional ways of life carry on culture and traditions ...
NWT keeps watch for wild pigs, devastating to the environment
Cabin Radio
A wild pig researcher warned the NWT on Monday of “devastating” consequences should the invasive species cross the southern border. Ryan Brook ...
International
Young climate activists beat Germany's government in court. Could it happen here?
CBC.ca
"The quick turnaround time between the victory and measurable change starting to become enacted is very, very good to see," she told CBC News.
Indigenous people worst sufferers of climate change
The Daily Star
... there should be policy reformation, conservation of wildlife and greenery, ... To mitigate the problem, proper implementation of existing laws, and ...
'Ecological disaster' feared as Greece battles forest fire
CTV News
ATHENS -- Hundreds of firefighters battled Greece's first major forest fire of the summer on Saturday, as experts warned of a "huge ecological disaster" ...
New study published to support airports in combatting wildlife trafficking in Latin America and the ...
International Airport Review
The ROUTES Partnership has published its newest study highlighting the issue of wildlife trafficking in the LAC region and how airports can work to ...
Wolf-Killing Could Disqualify Montana for $24 Million in Federal Funding, State Warned
Center for Biological Diversity
The purpose of the Act is to ensure sound conservation policies for the benefit of a diverse array of wildlife. Montana's S.B. 314 could lead to the ...
Conservationists Celebrate Federal Introduction of 'Extinction Prevention Act'
Common Dreams
the legislation (pdf) would fund conservation efforts for what the lawmakers call "less charismatic" but highly imperiled wildlife species. "Each year ...
World met target for protected area coverage on land: UN report
CanIndia News
The post-2020 global biodiversity framework is due to be agreed at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP15) in Kunming in China in October and ...
Millions of mice are swarming Australian towns. Now there's a plan to end the plague with poison
CTV News
Professional cleaner Sue Hodge clears dead mice from traps in her clients' homes each day in the NSW town of Canowindra, west of Sydney.
Extinct Fish Species That Existed Over 420 Million Years Ago Found Alive in the Indian Ocean
Yahoo
The study also reiterated that the coelacanth species is in danger of going extinct due to the uptick in shark hunting. "The jarifa gill-nets used to catch ...
'Zombie' fires in the Arctic are linked to climate change
National Geographic
But under the kinds of climate-changed conditions becoming more common there—long, hot summers with particularly acute heat waves that suck the ...
Severe Drought, Worsened by Climate Change, Ravages the American West
The New York Times
Severe Drought, Worsened by Climate Change, Ravages the American West. Heat and shifting weather patterns have intensified wildfires and sharply ...
Invasive species costing Africa $3.66 tn a year: study
Phys.Org
Invasive species introduced by human activity are costing African agriculture some $3.66 trillion every year—around 1.5 times the combined gross ...
Jane Goodall wins Templeton Prize for lifetime of conservation work
National Observer
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, was ...
Germany helps kick off $1 bln conservation fund as biodiversity targets missed
National Post
LONDON — Germany helped launch a new billion-dollar fund on Wednesday to tackle rapidly depleting global biodiversity, as countries missed key ...
Hunting season open for musk oxen stranded on ice off Alaska
The Record (New Westminster)
Residents do not need a hunting permit or a tag to kill musk oxen and can take up to two of them. Huntersmust submit photos to the state Department of ...
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