Canadian Wildlife Federation: In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

Endangered Species & Biodiversity

407 ETR is celebrating Earth Week with the announcement of new environmental partner, Conservation Halton Foundation

2023-04-22

In March 2023, 407 ETR announced funding to support Canadian Wildlife Federation and help bend the curve on biodiversity loss by restoring 12 hectares of land—the equivalent of 22 football fields— to enhance monarch butterfly and pollinator habitats along roadsides in the GTA. The Company continues to work towards its target of a 25 per cent reduction to Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Learn more about the Company's environment, social and governance (ESG) at 407etr.com.
Be bee friendly

2023-04-21

The world is run by bees. Not in a literal sense, mind you, but in a very real way life on this planet is made possible by the work of bees and other pollinators who ensure that new flowers and plants are able to grow and thrive. In return, we have air to breathe, fruits and vegetables to eat, and beautiful spring meadows to enjoy. Bees, however, are in trouble. According to many different organizations, including the David Suzuki Foundation, The Bee Conservancy and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, factors like decreasing habitat space due to land development, the use of neonic pesticides, and the growth of invasive plants are all contributing to a crisis in the insect world, including bees and other pollinators.
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