About "Wildlife"
From polar bears to peregrine falcons, blue whales to bees, find out about Canada’s wildlife, habitats and conservation news.
A herd of Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on Matveev Island, Russia. (Photo: Yulia Bogomolova/WWF-Russia)
In the Elk Valley of British Columbia, 25 per cent of elk mortalities and 30 per cent of grizzly deaths are due to vehicles. (Photo: Clayton Lamb)
Since the start of satellite records in 1979, the number of days per year that sea ice is present has declined in each subpopulation’s region. (Photo: Andreas Preußer, CC BY-ND 3.0)
Strong winds have been pushing petrels off course and into a number of coastal Newfoundland towns. (Photo: Richard Crossley, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Caribou in Northern Ontario face threats from both climate change and expanding resource development. (Photo: Susan Morse)
Newly-white snowshoe hares are no longer blending in with their snowless habitat. (Photo: Nicole Watson)
Patrick Nadeau is the new president of Birds Canada. (Photo: Martin Lipman)
A mother and baby bear curl up for sleep in a grassy meadow. Look closely and you’ll notice the cub has only three legs. “That bear was so attached to his mom,” says Gregus. (Photo: Martin Gregus)
Illustration: Kerry Hodgson/Can Geo
A model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria. (Photo: Thomas Quine/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
