Caribou are extremely sensitive to habitat fragmentation
Credit: Innu Nation
Just came across an interesting and useful report that was released on Monday by the U.N. Secretariat for the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). The report is called Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change and can be downloaded here:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-43-en.pdf
From the CBD press release:
“Forest Biodiversity provides an “Insurance Policy” against [...]

 
Yukon River
Credit: Nancy Turner
Reducing deforestation and managing forests sustainably are highly important parts of our fight against climate change, and also go a long way toward helping threatened birds and wildlife. This op-ed by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola hits the nail on the head. Click here to view the op-ed from its original source…
Forests [...]

Tuesday, October 27
Merrymeeting Audubon Presents
The Ivory-billed and the Boreal – Lessons and Legacies
Curtis Memorial Library,
Morrell Room, Brunswick, Maine 7:00 pm
Ornithologist Jeff Wells was a member of Cornell’s first top-secret search team that descended on the Arkansas swamps soon after the now-famous report of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker in February, 2004. Dr. Wells’ search for the thought-to-be-extinct [...]

 
Common Nighthawk
Credit: Tom Vezo
Every year as the hot and humid days of summer ease into the dry warm days of early fall, the nighthawks appear.   In the eastern U.S. at that point in the evening when the setting sun lights up the landscape, there appears in the sky dozens sometimes even hundreds of large silent, [...]

Along with comments left on my blog (read them here), I received some excellent e-mail and listserv feedback on the Yellowknife Yellow Warbler’s story I wrote about last week (click here to read the original story). I wanted to share these comments with you below. Thanks to all who took the time to comment and [...]

You might recall a previous post where I put up some great photos from Labrador of the Boreal Forest in the fall–courtesy of Larry Innes from the Canadian Boreal Initiative. I recently recieved some more shots of the Boreal in the fall, these from across the country in the Atlin-Taku region of northern British Columbia–courtesy [...]

I thought I would do a quick follow-up on my previous post about the great progress being made in Manitoba toward the creation of a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The Premier, who just allocated $10 million toward the project before taking on his new job as ambassador to [...]

A river within the potential new UNESCO site
Credit: Garth Lenz
Yesterday the outgoing Premier of Manitoba (equivalent of governor), Gary Doer, announced he will be putting $10 million into a trust fund designated for large-scale conservation planning in eastern Manitoba. Selected as the new ambassador to the United States and thus leaving his post as premier, [...]

I was walking down the sidewalk in downtown Yellowknife in June when I heard this song (Audio)–a sweet “Please-please-please-ta-meetcha”. To a birder skilled in identifying eastern North American birds by their songs, this could normally mean only one thing… the presence of a male Chestnut-sided Warbler.

Chestnut-sided Warbler
Credit: John Kormendy
That’s what I would have thought if [...]

For readers in Maine:  
On Thursday, October 8th, Jeff Wells, author of “Birder’s Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk”, will be speaking at the Arboretum.  The program is free and open to the public, and the first of our 4-part ”Maine Author Series”.  The program will start at 6:30pm. 
Date:  Thursday, October 8Time:  6:30pmPlace: 
Pine
Tree
State Arboretum,
153 Hospital Street, Augusta
FMI:  621-0031 [...]