Tag: Vancouver

December 4, 2020

Watch: Vancouver Island marmots are rebounding

Vancouver Island marmots are Canada’s most endangered mammal, but they’re populations have been rebounding. From a low of 30 wild marmots (Marmota vancouverensis) occupying just a few locations in 2003,...

July 9, 2018

Biologists fight for Canadian national bird

Last year, wildlife biologist Dan Strickland searched documents in the Smithsonian Institute basement to determine how the Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) became renamed the gray jay. In an effort to...