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    Your Perfect Tree

    CWF wants to help you deck the halls…sustainably. Read on and we’ll land you your perfect Christmas tree!

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  • Operation Longtooth: Part Two

    2015-12-08

    In 2009, officials with Environment Canada were tipped to a U.S. investigation into narwhal tusk smuggling that reached across the border — and to an unlikely suspect: a retired RCMP officer. What follows is the inside story of the investigation that ensued and how it led to one of the largest punishments ever under Canadian wildlife law.

  • Our Home and Native Plants

    2025-12-05

    Canada is home to thousands of identified native plant species, but more than a quarter of them could be lost forever if we don’t play an active role in their conservation. As an essential element of our natural biodiversity, native plants provide an important source of food and shelter for many Canadian species, including at-risk and endangered wildlife. Commercial development, clear-cutting and an ever increasing human population are causing habitats across the country to disappear at an alarming rate.  

  • Pacific Problems

    2013-03-21

    Pacific populations are dwindling to a scary new low.

  • Permission to Shop

    2025-12-05

    You’ve vowed not to eat farmed salmon, but you’re not really sure how to go about buying wild. Let’s go shopping together, shall we?

  • PhotoScapes: Polar Bears are Standing on Thin Ice

    2025-12-05

    Environment Canada research scientist and guest speaker at CWF’s 2008 Issues Forum, Dr. Nick Lunn, has tracked down the effects of climate change on the Western Hudson Bay polar bear population.

  • Picky Eaters

    2015-09-09

    Which Canadian animals will happily eat the same thing for their whole lives? Keep reading to find out!

  • Plan for Obsolescence

    2025-12-05

    Shop carefully for electronics. Your landfill will thank you

  • Pledge to Protect the Ocean

    2025-12-05

    Did you know that every second breath we take is actually provided by the ocean? Oxygen is just one of the many gifts oceans give to us; they also provide us with food and regulate temperature and climate.

  • Plight of the Bumblebee

    2013-08-08

    You can make a serious difference to these pollinators!

  • Pollination 101

    2018-04-12

    How does pollination really work and what species are in charge of this important job? Keep reading and you’ll learn all that and more.

  • Protecting Procreation for Canada’s Species

    2025-12-05

    By Megan Findlay<br>As the days get longer and the nights grow warm, many animals across the country feel the tug of springtime rituals. They may have the instinct, and they may have the mate—but what happens if they don’t have the habitat?

  • Quebec News

    2025-12-05

    Wildlife news from Quebec.

  • Reptile Relief

    2014-06-23

    Canada’s turtles need some help. Find out what you can do!

  • Reviewing the Risks

    2025-12-05

    Know which species are at-risk? Keep up to date on COSEWIC’s assessments right here with CWF.

  • Right as Rain

    2015-04-09

    Grab your umbrella and put on your wellies. Let’s chat about April showers!

  • Room for Rodents

    2025-12-05

    Keep an open mind about mice and their cousins

  • Salt Of The Earth

    2025-12-05

    When snow and freezing rain descend, Canadians’ weapon of choice is rock salt. Trucks spray it on the roads, businesses toss it on the sidewalk, and homeowners sprinkle it on their driveways. You’d never know that eight years ago, Environment Canada declared salt an environmental toxin.