Geographical Location: Canada

March 18, 2020

Province mergers forestry, wildlife divisions

The Newfoundland and Labrador provincial government is merging its forestry and wildlife divisions to create the Newfoundland and Labrador Resource Enforcement Division. Officials say the merger will increase the number...

March 17, 2020

Less Baffin Bay sea ice means skinny bears, fewer cubs

Decreasing sea ice cover related to climate change is leading to thinner polar bears and smaller cub litters on Canada’s Baffin Island. “This adds to a growing body of evidence...

March 5, 2020

Canada makes historic investments in conservation

A recent report from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society found that the country is making important progress towards its conservation goals. In the report titled Government investments bring Canada...

March 4, 2020

Reintroduced bison returning to ancestral haunts in Banff

Bison reintroduced to Banff National Park as part of a five-year program are settling into the same wallows their ancestors used 140 years ago. Parks Canada has been translocating bison...

March 4, 2020

Wild Cam: Struggling caribou herd penned in by predators

The Gaspésie herd is one of North America’s most endangered caribou populations, and logging around the fringes of the last remaining landscapes it occupies is giving predators an advantage over...

February 28, 2020

Northern snakes face increasingly unstable winters

A threatened population of massasauga rattlesnakes in Canada is facing increasingly unstable conditions at the northern end of their range. Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) in Canada are divided into two populations....

February 24, 2020

Minimizing disease between elk and cattle

Scientists in Alberta are looking at the risk of disease transmission between elk (Cervus canadensis) and cattle and how it can be minimized. “Livestock management that minimizes the risk of...

February 7, 2020

Watch: Sharpshooting officer frees antler-locked deer

When two deer locked antlers in a field outside Calgary, an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer came up with a surprising way to separate them. Tranquilizing one animal could injure...

February 3, 2020

The February issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

January 30, 2020

Canadian Wildlife Service releases migratory bird hunting proposal

The Canadian Wildlife Service released proposed changes to their migratory game bird hunting regulations for the next two hunting seasons (2020-2021 and 2021-2022), which would consolidate hunting zones in some...