Tag: Canada

While wildlife bridges and tunnels are meant to protect animals from vehicle collisions and provide population connectivity, some deer and elk might actually be too scared to use them. Researchers...

When a 19-year-old woman was killed by coyotes in a Canadian park in 2009, she became the only known coyote attack fatality in North America. What prompted coyotes to behave...

World leaders are gathering in Montreal for a high-profile United Nations conference to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. Known as “COP15,” the conference seeks to set aside 30% of the...

Ancient albatross bones have revealed that the birds were likely more plentiful in Vancouver Island Archipelago centuries before unregulated harvests decimated their populations. Short-tailed albatrosses (Phoebastria albatrus) are found across...

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity announced that the COP15 biodiversity summit will take place this year, but in Montreal, not in China, where it was scheduled to take...

Surveys across Ontario have shown that while frog chytrid is widespread, the fungal disease isn’t necessarily as deadly in the second largest province in Canada as it is in regions...

Caribou in northwestern Canada are often divided between two major groups. Barren ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) make massive migrations across the continent. Woodland caribou (R.t. caribou) also travel, but...

Biologists have returned 20 burrowing owls to the wild in southeastern Alberta. The owls were taken from their nests last winter and raised at the Calgary Zoo to help recover...

Hanging off cliffs a few hundred meters above Hudson Bay made for some great views. The deep blue of the water underneath contrasted with the white rock of the exposed...

The virus that causes COVID-19 has spread throughout North American deer populations, but what the impacts may be for wildlife and for humans remains unclear. Hundreds of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus...