Posts tagged with ‘biodiversity’ (34)
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, March 14, 2011
National Parks Project - Trailer from Ryan J. Noth on Vimeo.
From the peaks of Banff to the historically saturated Fort of Louisbourg, Canadian parks and historical sites easily stoke inspiration.
In them, Canadian art heavyweights Emily Carr and the Group of Seven sought to capture the Canadian wilderness in the early 1900s. Now, the National Parks Project is aiming to put a modern-day twist on creativity in the wild by inviting musicians and filmmakers to capture the spirit of parks across the country.
Starting this Saturday on Discovery World HD, ...
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Photo: brian.gratwicke/flickr
Seventy-three years ago, in the woods of northern Maine, the last confirmed eastern cougar was killed. Early last week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Services formally announced that this subspecies of puma is being added to the growing fold of officially extinct species.
Although the Canadian Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife disputes the claim, the fact remains that the demise of this cat which once prowled over 21 states is part of a growing trend in the animal kingdom. ...
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Posted by Adam Shoalts
on Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Photo: btdevil/flickr
Like the mists that hang around its towering trees, the vast Amazon rainforest remains shrouded in mystery. Scientists believe that its unexplored reaches contain literally thousands of unknown species. Just last year a new subspecies of monkey was confirmed in Columbia, and on average new species are discovered every few days. While there are no longer any blanks on the map, the rainforest’s impenetrable canopy and dense cloud cover limits satellite imagery's effectiveness as a mapping tool over ...
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Thursday, February 03, 2011
Photo: USFWS Endangered Species/flickr
I have a confession: I’ve always disliked ferrets. A childhood friend had one and I always felt like playing with it was like trying to hold a wriggling furry slinky. Which, needless to say, turned me off of the species pretty quickly.
Despite my aversion, I watched Return of the Prairie Bandit - a documentary that will be airing on The Nature of Things next week. It follows the efforts to re-introduce the black-footed ferret into Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan.
Until late 2009, ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Wednesday, February 02, 2011
First Nations and Métis people collected buffalo bones and brought them to train stations such as this one at Moose Jaw, Sask. They received five cents a ton for their efforts.
The prairies were littered with the skulls of bison during the waning days of the Buffalo hunt. There had been, at a time, some 50 to 60 million of the woolly beasts roaming the plains of North America. Even in the 1870s there were reports of herds that would take days to pass. Yet by the early 1880s the prairie bison were on the brink of extinction.Sketch by John Mix Stanley showing buffalo on the plains
In Canada, roughly 1,000 buffalo were left, most held in small herds on private land. There ...
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