In The News: Connecting With Nature

2019-01-24

Photo of eagle scrambling to defend its food wins top prize from Canadian Wildlife Federation

2019-01-24

All along the California coast in fall and winter, there are places you can visit where colonies of adult Monarch butterflies overwinter.

2019-01-23

iNaturalist.ca was featured recently in the Ottawa Citizen as one of the best travel apps.

2019-01-23

Take a look below at some of Canada’s most popular scavengers and some that just may surprise you.

2019-01-15

While every action, individual and specific interest in wildlife is important to us, we are here to tell you that it can very easily be your name on the press release, awards trophy and banquet reception honouring today’s Conservation Heroes. Whether you submit your name now, or plan to enter for next year, here are a few things to keep in mind.

2019-01-11

The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s Dr. Carolyn Callaghan talks about the steep decline of the Monarch butterfly and what we can do to protect this endangered species.

2019-01-09

Cold weather activity can help boost your brain, burn more calories and help combat risks of obesity and depression that come from spending a sedentary life indoors all winter. Bears and bats need to store their fat to get through the winter: humans, not so much!

2018-12-31

Hope for Wildlife in Seaforth, N.S., hired 50 interns in 2018 from all over the world to keep up with demand - including CCC participant Kambal Bloxham.

2018-12-17

The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to announce the expansion of the Canadian Conservation Corps (CCC) with six new cohorts to be announced in 2019.<p></p><p> “We’re thrilled with the achievements of the five groups we trained in 2018 and can’t wait to bring six more groups of young adults on board in the new year,” said Rick Bates, CEO of CWF.</p><p> As part of the Canada Service Corps, the nine-month CCC program begins with a wilderness journey which is followed by several months of conservation field experience. As part of the graduation requirement, the youth design their own initiatives to build a better Canada. No experience is necessary to apply to the program and a diversity of applicants are selected. More than 20 national partners have helped to make the program a success.</p><p> “Over the last nine months I have had the opportunity to visit nine out of 10 Canadian provinces,” said Shannon Anderson, a participant from New Brunswick. “I have dogsledded and snowshoed throughout Algonquin Park. I have climbed my first real mountain. I have touched the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. I have handed out plants to teachers in Calgary. I have participated in youth service and leadership talks in Toronto. I have chaperoned a youth trip to Northern British Colombia. I have been able to see 25 km across prairie and the largest skies in the world. I have helped create over 11 million walleye and 100,000 splake trout. I have tracked northern pike with a hydrophone. I have taken density of oxygen readings. I have helped film educational videos to raise awareness of aquatic invasive species. I have visited a sharp-tailed grouse lek. I have watched bison roam on some of the last remaining native prairie in the world. I have met people and created invaluable friendships from all over Canada. I have had a lot of fun.</p>

2018-12-11

The Arctic tundra is a fascinating area between the edge of the boreal forest and the permanent ice caps closer to the North Pole.