In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

2022-02-16

Turtle species across Ontario are under threat, and it’s up to us to save them

2022-02-15

Dalhousie University’s Sean Brillant is among experts participating in a Q&A session following the Halifax premiere of 'Last of the Right Whales' on February 20

2022-01-03

Many birds fly south to avoid the long, cold Canadian winter. Turtles don’t have that option.

2021-11-09

Turtles watch potential mates to scope out their competition, according to recent research by Carleton biology instructor Grégory Bulté.

2021-10-27

New culverts installed over creek near Babine Lake; help provided by government, LBN

2021-10-23

It’s hard being a bat these days. Bats have had a bad reputation for centuries due to unfounded fears, most recently getting bad press with the global pandemic. Also, in the last decade, many continue to face the threat of White-nose Syndrome (WNS) that’s wiping out millions of bats in North America. There’s also habitat loss to contend with, declines in insect populations (Canadian bats’ food source) largely due to pesticide use and massive wind turbines to navigate.

2021-10-23

Every year, a couple dozen people call the provincial Department of Natural Resources reporting that they saw a cougar. And every year, the department looks, without success, for physical evidence that one of the big cats was in the area in question.

2021-10-12

Today, as I write this blog, I am looking out the window at the changing leaves on the trees, and it with a little sadness that I accept that the Monarchs are gone from this part of Ontario on their long journey to Mexico.

2021-09-23

The elm zigzag sawfly, Aproceros leucopoda Takeuchi (Hymenoptera: Argidae), was reported for the first time in North America during the summer of 2020. Characteristic zigzag defoliation was reported in the province of Québec, Canada, on the community science website, iNaturalist.

2021-09-15

Even during the pandemic, the Friends of Petrie Island (FOPI) turtle conservation initiatives continued. Petrie Island — located in Orleans (East end of Ottawa) — was purchased in the late 1950s by the Grandmaitre family. In the 1960s, they used it as a cooperative sand extraction operation, which ended in 2002. The sand operation increased the amount of sand on the island which in turn increased the turtle nesting areas.