Today the public comment period for the Canadian federal government’s woodland caribou recovery strategy ended. Woodland caribou populations have been spiraling downward for decades, prompting concern among environmentalists, Aboriginal communities, and many everyday citizens concerned with the future of our planet.

A lone caribou crosses a river in Labrador.
Credit: Valerie Courtois, Canadian Boreal Initiative
The government actually [...]

Today one of our Canadian partner organizations, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), delivered more than 32,000 signatures to Canadian parliament asking them to better protect the increasingly-threatened woodland caribou. These signatures were delivered just a week before the end of the public comment period on the federal government’s national caribou recovery strategy, which [...]

While many were excited to see Punxsutawney Phil, the famous groundhog of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, rise out of his hole facing his own shadow this morning (it looks like we’ll have 6 more weeks of winter), many others around the world are celebrating a separate event: World Wetlands Day.

Wetlands within the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario
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