News from Canada's Boreal Forest

A coalition of birding and nature groups is launching a campaign to press governments to protect at least half of North America’s boreal forest from development. This is critical nesting habitat for billions of birds, including the whooping crane, pictured here.

J. McKinnon and Parks Canada

With more depressing results that suggest climate change threatens half of Canada’s songbirds with significant habitat loss, you might expect one of the new study’s authors to be downcast.

But Jeff Wells isn’t.

“We need to get out of that pessimistic, completely gloomy view of all the bad things that are happening and start thinking about solutions,” said Wells, chief scientist and lead author of the study...

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February 2017 | Report