News from Canada's Boreal Forest

Some of our most beloved migratory boreal songbirds, including the Canada warbler, have declined by upwards of 70 per cent in recent decades.

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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