Giving orphaned grizzlies a chance back in the wild
Most orphaned grizzly cubs never make it in the wild. Often, they are left to die, shot on the spot or taken to a zoo. But in British Columbia, Orphaned grizzlies ...
Canada
Parks Canada aims to steer bears from Banff roads and rails
Parks Canada is trying to reduce bear encounters with people in Banff National Park by luring bears away from some of the park’s busier areas. The agency is ...
Report finds provinces fell far short of conservation pledge
A report by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society found most Canadian provinces fell far short of the country’s 10-year goal to conserve 17% of its land mass ...
Oil, gas development changes caribou migration
Woodland mountain caribou in western Alberta change their yearly migration behavior during the winter months in an attempt to cope with increasing habitat loss to ...
Vancouver Island faces growing lizard problems
After being released from a private zoo in 1970, common wall lizards are surging on Vancouver Island. “This is a lizard that shouldn’t be here,” Gavin Hanke, ...
Polar bears hunt seals along large cracks in sea ice
Polar bears in western Hudson Bay sometimes follow large, linear cracks in the sea ice while searching for prey. Those large cracks, known as flaw leads, can occur ...
For red squirrels, there is no winning personality
As April Martinig was studying red squirrel dispersal in the Yukon, she got to know the squirrels pretty well. Over time, she found, their behavior was pretty ...
Electric fencing put up to deter bears from highway
Parks Canada recently put up more electric fencing in Banff National Park to stop bears from crossing the dangerous Trans-Canada Highway, where there have been ...
JWM: Hog-nosed snakes need sandy dunes for nesting
Saying eastern hog-nosed snakes are a little prickly is probably an understatement. When Laura Robson, a master’s student at the University of Ottawa at the time, ...
Committee recommends expanded polar bear conservation
The Northwest Territories Species at Risk Committee in Canada is recommending measures to enhance polar bear monitoring and conservation. The committee says it is ...