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From polar bears to peregrine falcons, blue whales to bees, find out about Canada’s wildlife, habitats and conservation news.

A wolverine crawls through snow
Wolverine: Tracking the elusive trickster
The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish

Belugas swimming near Utqiagvik, Alaska, in July 2017. (Photo: Lisa Barry/NOAA Fisheries)

Photo: Lisa Barry
Beluga whistles and clicks could be silenced by an increasingly noisy Arctic Ocean
Sound is an integral part of a beluga’s life, so the quality of the underwater acoustic environment is very important for the health and survival of belugas

A female killer whale leaps from the water in Puget Sound near Seattle. (AP Photo: Elaine Thompson)

AP Photo: Elaine Thompson
Pacific killer whales are dying — new research shows why
In the 1990s, an abrupt decline in the fish-eating southern resident population dropped to 75 whales from 98
Photos: Wolverine life
He refers to them as 'snow machines.' Photographer Peter Mather has photographed wolverines in the Yukon and on Alaska's North Slope
A wolf stands on a rock

A lonesome howl at dusk. (Photo: Cheryl Alexander)

Photo: Cheryl Alexander
Excerpt from Takaya: The Lone Wolf
An enchanting and evocative look at the unique relationship between a solitary, island-dwelling wolf and a renowned wildlife photographer
Two moose stand by the side of the road

Photo: Lisa Bourgeault/Can Geo Photo Club

Photo: Lisa Bourgeault/Can Geo Photo Club
Wildlife can be saved from becoming roadkill with a new tool that finds the best locations for fences
An estimated 29 million mammals are killed each year on European roads
A bear stands in a creek with a fish in its mouth

A collaboration between wildlife ecologists at the University of Victoria and Silicon Valley software developers has led to the creation of an AI-powered software that can identify the faces of individual brown bears. (Photo: Wilma McKenzie/Can Geo Photo Club)

Photo: Wilma McKenzie/Can Geo Photo Club
Software developers and conservation biologists team up to develop a facial recognition AI for brown bears
Silicon Valley software developers and B.C. conservation biologists create a facial recognition technology with photos of bears in B.C. and Alaska
A hawk sits in the grass

This Swainson’s hawk was photographed on the Zen-Ridge property.

Photo: Jason Bantle
Key grassland habitat conserved in southern Saskatchewan
Critical property is home to a number of endangered and threatened species

More than 147,000 pine trees over eight million hectares were killed this past year by the mountain pine beetle. (Photo: Natural Resources Canada)

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Federal government commits $68.4M to fight ‘devastating’ mountain pine beetle
An interview with Natural Resources Canada Minister Seamus O’Regan on the federal government’s recent decision

Half a million sharks could be killed to make the COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons)

Photo: Albert Kok/Wikimedia Commons
COVID-19 vaccine might require compounds from shark liver
Squalene, a compound found in shark liver oil, is a common ingredient used in vaccines to boost the body’s immune response 
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