In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

2025-12-01

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts used drones to capture spray from the blowholes of the endangered species. They then analyzed the bacteria in the spray and connected that information with other data to gain a clearer picture of the health of individual whales.

2025-11-04

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has announced that a record number 97,046 nature observations were made during its second annual CWF Great Canadian Bioblitz, a national event in collaboration with the Campus Nature Challenge designed to track and showcase biodiversity using the iNaturalist platform.

2025-09-10

In March 2025, a group of First Nations knowledge holders, known as Guardians, and allied conservation practitioners from across Canada traveled to Antigonish and Paqtnkek First Nation.

2025-09-10

Despite a surge in scientific and public fascination with fungi, they remain sidelined in conservation language.

2025-09-09

This August, iNaturalist Canada (iNaturalist.ca) has officially surpassed a monumental milestone: 20 million wildlife observations from across the country! That’s 20 million glimpses into Canada’s incredible biodiversity, captured and shared by a growing community of nature lovers, scientists, educators and everyday explorers

2025-08-22

Two “extremely rare” albino Blanding’s turtles have hatched in Canada.

2025-08-20

Blanding's turtles are usually dark grey in colour with a brown to black shell and a distinctive bright yellow neck. But these pigmentless hatchlings, born at an incubation lab in Kanata, have blood red eyes, pink skin and almost white shells.

2025-08-20

While the number of estimated bird deaths due to collisions with buildings is staggering, you can play a key role in helping mitigate these deaths by rescuing birds and identifying hazardous structures.

2025-08-18

Article content We were warmly welcomed to the beautiful native gardens at the home of Christine and Jim Roberts in Blair’s Grove.

2025-07-23

With July nearly finished, freshwater turtles in Canada have finished laying eggs for the year, but they can still encounter danger from vehicle traffic while moving from one wetland to another.