A woodland caribou runs through an opening in the forest.
Credit: Wayne Sawchuk
You may not have known this, but Jeff spent the majority of this week in Winnipeg, Manitoba attending the 2010 North American Caribou Workshop, an annual gathering where discussions about how to curb recent declines in caribou populations take place.
This year’s event was a [...]

Peatlands and wetlands store around one third of the world’s terrestrial carbon.
Credit: Garth Lenz
While the subject of peat may not conjure up the most passionate of responses from your average Joe, its global significance in the role of climate stability is undeniable.
Peatlands, traditionally wet accumulations of partially decayed vegetation which can someplaces be over ten feet thick, store exorbitant [...]

As mentioned in our last post about the impacts of the Gulf oil spill on migratory birds, I did an interview on Monday with Radio Canada International’s show The Link about the vast number of birds who have flown to and through the Gulf Coast on their migratory paths, beginning in Canada’s boreal forest. Listen [...]

It’s been over six months since the BP oil spill fiasco began. While media interest and coverage has reduced significantly since the leak was capped, there still remain numerous lingering effects on local habitat and wildlife.
I will be doing an interview about the potential impact on birds from the Boreal that winter or migrate through [...]

I promised to post up some more about the birds and the experience on my visit to Mushuanipi (Indian House Lake) on the George River (see original post) and will post something about the birds I saw and heard there soon but in the meantime here are some more vistas and scenes from the area near [...]

California Condor in the wild
Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
This is David posting today rather than Jeff – I learned this week of a wonderful success story I thought I’d share with you for the weekend:
A huge milestone was reached this week when the wild California Condor population reached 100 for the first time in over 50 years.
See story in [...]

Iconic species like the grizzly bear have inadequate protection
Credit: Robert Plotz
“If a grizzly bear ambles from Alberta or Montana across the border into B.C., it goes from being protected by law to staring down the barrel of a gun,” stated the David Suzuki Foundation in a release for their recent report On the Edge: British [...]