In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

Vanier-based Campus Biodiversity Network hosts the 2023 City Nature Challenge

2023-04-18

For the second year in a row, the Vanier-based Campus Biodiversity Network (CBN) a group of educational institutions working to protect campus greenspace, is co-hosting the City Nature Challenge from April 28 to May 1, 2023, in Greater Montreal, alongside local conservation group Technoparc Oiseaux.

Will This Year See a Drop? Waiting for the Annual Monarch Butterfly Count

2023-01-31

Now that we are into the year of 2023, we anxiously await the annual count of the overwintering Monarch Butterfly’s population in Mexico.

Progress being made in fight to save North Atlantic right whale from extinction

2022-12-01

The latest official population estimate for the world's most endangered species of whale is grim.

CWF Calls for Immediate Action to Conserve Canada’s Aquatic Species at Risk in Response to Environment Commissioner’s Findings

2022-10-05

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is calling on the federal government to decide whether to give protection to each aquatic species that has been scientifically assessed as at risk of extinction under the Species at Risk Act by June 2023 following the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development’s fall audit. Further, the federal government must focus resources on implementation and action to recover these species and report to Parliament and Canadians on progress.

‘That’s the whole story of Canada’: Species At Risk Act hampered by federalism two decades on

2022-08-25

SARA is limited by the constitutional division of powers that gives each province control over the management of provincial crown land.

Saved by the shell: Tiny turtles given 2nd chance to survive in the wild

2022-08-23

Rescued from precarious nests, hatchlings now being returned to their natural environment

Tracking Bats in Ottawa Area

2022-08-05

Bat researchers are trying to learn what the Little Brown Bat is doing in the Ottawa area.

Scientists hope tiny trackers will reveal local bats' home away from home as they continue to face critical loss of habitat

2022-08-05

A team of biologists with the Canadian Wildlife Federation hope to learn more about what a bat needs to survive

Why a group of scientists will be up all night — trying to catch bats, in the east end

2022-08-04

James Pagé is the species at risk and biodiversity specialist at the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

CWF BAT CAPTURE AND TRACKING PROJECT LAUNCHES IN CUMBERLAND

2022-08-02

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is planning a live and safe bat capture, tagging and tracking project within a 425 acre outdoor classroom east of Ottawa.