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The Controversy Over Trophy Hunting in Africa
HubPages
Rupert Taylor
2025 03 27 …
Wieso tragen Orcas „Lachs-Hüte“ auf dem Kopf?
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Von Christopher Meltzer
2025 03 27 …
Bird flu: How to handle & dispose of dead birds
WSBT-TV
Cicily Porter
2025 03 18 …
“SEA WOLVES” with Chris Darimont
The Fur Real Podcast
Mark A Kyle
2025 03 18
City of Toronto to hire specialized team to use ‘adapted aversion techniques’ on Liberty Village coyotes
City News Toronto
Dilshad Burman
2025 03 18 …
B.C. projects get $7.6M in federal funding for restoring aquatic ecosystems
Times Colonist
Jeff Bell
2025 03 13 …
Feds promise $5.3M for 3 marine restoration groups on Vancouver Island
Chek News
Adam Chan
2025 03 12 …
Canada Bolsters BC’s Aquatic Ecosystems With AERF
The Mirage
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2025 03 11 …
The Government of Canada works to protect British Columbia’s aquatic ecosystems through projects under the Aquatic Ecosystems Restoration Fund (AERF)
Government of Canada
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
2025 03 10 …
Feds refuse protection order for southern resident orcas, rejecting ministers’ advice
980 CJME
The Canadian Press
2025 03 07 …
Government declines to issue emergency order, putting southern resident killer whales at greater risk
CISION
2025 03 07
…This disappointing decision follows the government’s own acknowledgement on Nov. 29, 2024, confirmed by Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans and Environment and Climate Change Canada, that southern resident killer whales face imminent threats to their survival
Climb stairs, help whales and the environment
Squamish Chief
Jennifer Thuncher
2025 03 05 …
Canada moves to declare ‘forever chemicals’ toxic, plans nationwide phase-out
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 03 05
…The minister’s comments came after the release of the federal State of PFAS Report, a wide-ranging government analysis of a large body of science investigating the impacts of the chemicals, including
Wolves Reintroduced Themselves to America
Nautilus
Kevin Berger
2025 02 24
…I spoke to Canadian biologist Paul Paquet, who has been tracking and studying wolves since the ’70s in Canada. His many scholarly articles and books reveal him to be a pioneer in wolf research.
MERS Master’s Night
Mersociety
Ali Gladwell and Joan Moreaux
2025 02 19 …
Federal ministers sued over lack of action on endangered orcas
Prince Albert Daily Herald
Rochelle Baker
2025 02 07 …
Research illuminates growing extinction threat for southern resident orcas
The Daily World
Lynda V. Mapes
2025 02 06 …
Indigenous knowledge helps explain bird population changes in Canada’s BC
Mongabay
Jane Palmer
2025 02 03 …
Valeria Vergara: A mother’s grief, a population on the brink
Vancouver Sun
Valeria Vergara
2025 02 03
…Tahlequah is grieving. Hour after hour, day after day, she clings to the lifeless body of her newborn. She carries her calf through the cold waters of the Salish Sea, lifting it to
Research illuminates growing extinction threat for southern resident orcas
The Seattle Times
Lynda V. Mapes
2025 02 03
…The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered Species Act 20 years ago this year.
Federal ministers sued over lack of action on endangered orcas
Cortes Currents
Rochelle Baker
2025 02 01 …
Two federal cabinet ministers sued over delay in protecting B.C.’s orcas
The Globe and Mail
Ainslie Cruickshank
2025 01 31
…The conservation groups are now asking the Federal Court to order the ministers to recommend cabinet issue an emergency order under the Species At Risk Act or declare the ministers’ delay
Orca advocates sue federal ministers over lack of action on endangered whales
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News
Rochelle Baker
2025 01 31
…“We’re not doing a good job of reducing the threats to an extent that can promote their recovery.”
The southern residents are already listed as endangered under the Species at Risk
Killer Whale “John Coe”: The Loneliest Killer Whale in the World
Marine Tours
No Date
…The trouble with the pod that John Coe belongs to is that from DNA analysis of former deceased pod members [ “LuLu” in Tiree, Scotland, 2016] it appears that the West Coast Community are an isolated
Mountain sentinels in a changing world – new study describes weather and climate impacts on alpine wildlife
UVIC
2025 01 31
…“Their thick white coats are important for surviving in the mountains most times, but they can’t simply take them off on a hot summer day – heat and physiological stress are increasingly important issues”, said wildlife
Multiple conservation groups sue Feds over delay in protecting Southern Resident killer whales
Capital Daily
Robyn Bell
2025 01 30
…An assessment last fall from the ministries determined that SRKW face imminent threats for survival—a determination that would direct the ministers to recommend an emergency order to increase legal protections for the whales
Canada sued over delay in protecting endangered killer whales
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 01 28
…Six environmental groups are suing two federal ministers over a delay in issuing an emergency-order recommendation to protect B.C.’s endangered killer whale population.
The legal action, filed Monday at a Vancouver
Government failure to recommend emergency order to protect endangered orcas prompts legal challenge from conservation groups
Georgia Strait Alliance
2025 01 28
…The groups contend that after months of urging government to use the tools available under SARA to protect the Southern Residents, they had no choice but to turn to the courts for action. This
‘The whales are in crisis’: two federal ministers sued over delay in protecting B.C.’s orcas
The Narwhal
Ainslie Cruickshank
2025 01 28
…The conservation groups are now asking the Federal Court to order the ministers to recommend cabinet issue an emergency order under the Species At Risk Act or declare the ministers’ delay to be
Maureen Vo chats about her winding career route and why she has become passionate about freediving
Pink Sheep Design
Ryan Elizabeth Cope
2025 01 27 …
Myth-Busting and the Great Gray Wolf
Mountain Journal
Benjamin Alva Polley
2025 01 26
…In June 1991, Canadian researchers led by wildlife biologist Paul Paquet, captured a female wolf named Pluie — “rain” in French — near Kananaskis Country, Alberta. Fitted with a radio collar and
A geometric morphometric approach for detecting different reproductive stages of a free-ranging killer whale Orcinus orca population
Scientific Reports
Chloe V. Robinson and Brittany C. Visona-Kelly
2025 01 25
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Kate Field and Chris Darimont publish new research in the Canadian Journal of Zoology
UVIC
Kate Field and Chris Darimont
2025 01 22
…A new study led by University of Victoria Geography researcher Kate Field and professor Chris Darimont, in collaboration with the Nuxalk Nation and BC Parks, suggests that grizzly bears visiting ecotourism
’A plan for a plan?’ internal critics question Canada’s ocean noise strategy
Salmon Arm Observer
Rochelle Baker
2025 01 17
…Key Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) staff were unimpressed with the proposed framework to address the surging problem of noise pollution, internal communications obtained by Canada’s National Observer suggest.
Canadian regulators lag behind U.S. after harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in fertilizer, say experts
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 01 15
…The Canadian federal government is in the process of developing a chemical management plan for PFAS. A July 2024 updated draft state of PFAS in Canada found contamination from “forever chemicals”
Colorado to capture 15 B.C. wolves to reintroduce the population to the state
Yahoo News
CBC
2025 01 14
…Chelsea Greer, the director of the wolf conservation program at the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, says B.C. offering up wolves from its wilderness is full of unknowns.
“It’s all incredibly stressful and raises some welfare
Eco-tourism did not make these B.C. grizzly bears more prone to human conflict, study finds
Business Intelligence for B.C.
Stefan Labbé
2025 01 14
…But move 40 kilometres downstream and you start running into a number of settlements. The situation has led to a collision between humans and grizzlies in a conflict that outranks any
Federal Court upholds RBT2 Megaport expansion, in a setback to legal protection for species at risk
Georgia Strait Alliance
2025 01 13
…Cabinet approved the project despite accepting the conclusion of the independent environmental assessment that the project would have significant adverse effects on the Southern Residents and their main prey source, Chinook salmon.
The Vancouver
This Vancouver megaport expansion could harm killer whales. Approving it still didn’t breach endangered species law, court says
The Narwhal
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
2025 01 13
…“Even since this case was filed and was heard the population has declined further,” Dyna Tuytel, a lawyer with the environmental law charity Ecojustice, said. “This is a really urgent and critical
Federal Court rejects environmentalists’ bid to halt B.C. port expansion
The Canadian Press
Darryl Greer
2025 01 13
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Who Watches the Watchers?
bioGraphic
Larry Pynn
2025 01 11
…Suzie Hall heard the killer whales before she saw them. Listening through headphones from OrcaLab, an independent research station on Hanson Island in southern British Columbia, Hall could pick out the cetaceans’ distinctive calls
This Might Be the Coolest Alaska Cruise to Take in 2025
Travel Leisure
Kevin West
2025 01 04
…It was the boat that got me. Swell, run by Maple Leaf Adventures out of Victoria, British Columbia, was built in 1912 as a wooden-hulled tugboat. Refitted in 2004, it now operates as
Researchers find famous orca mother carrying body of another dead calf
Canada’s National Observer
Brieanna Charlebois
2025 01 03
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In deep mourning, famous orca mom drapes her dead calf over her head, again: experts
Vancouver Sun
Brieanna Charlebois
2025 01 02
…Hanson said researchers are concerned about Tahlequah’s welfare as she continues to carry the calf’s body, draped over the top of her head.
“That essentially results in a lot more drag, and so
Grieving orca mother Tahlequah carries dead baby for the second time
CTV News
Mina Kerr-Lazenby
2025 01 02
…As was the case with the loss of her first daughter, Tahlequah has been seen carrying the body of her deceased second daughter with her. In 2018, the mother of four carried the
Comment: Life for southern resident killer whales not getting better
Times Colonist
Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffee
2025 01 02 …
