On my first day in the Arctic, I woke up and discovered I had murdered a loon.
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Puffin Protectors
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve in Newfoundland is home to North America’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins, hosting over 260,000 pairs each summer. While the reserve’s islands provide a safe haven, fledglings are drawn towards the artificial lights of coastal communities where they encounter nighttime hazards like traffic and cats. […]
Conservationists of a Feather Flock Together
Last week, delegates from over 120 countries flocked to Ottawa for the BirdLife International World Congress. From June 19-22, they shared innovative ideas for tackling conservation challenges that threaten birds and ecosystems around the globe.
The Green Athlete: Running Wild Part 2
When I began my last post for The Green Athlete, I had no idea that I would actually participate in the trek I was writing about. In a rapid sequence of events, I found myself in my Prius on the way to the badlands of North Dakota.
Towards an Anarchist Ecology
Knowing the Land is Resistance (KLR) has been running nature exploration workshops in southwestern Ontario for three years, demonstrating to participants how to (re)connect with the natural world around them, in any setting. I attended a very different KLR workshop in Waterloo in March, at which they presented five starting points […]
The Green Athlete: Running Wild
It may stretch our imaginations a little to merge the worlds of marathons and fracking, but that is exactly what is happening this spring in the badlands of North Dakota. Adventure Science is currently carrying out 100 Miles of Wild: North Dakota Badlands Transect, a trek across the badlands to […]
Web Exclusive: Winning ESAC Poster
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO STUDENT Heather Andrachuk won the Environmental Studies Association of Canada’s annual poster competition. Her poster, Evaluating the Quality of Citizen Science Bee Observations, explores how volunteer observers can be organized to provide reliable data for ecologists.
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