In The News: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

2026-06-10

One of the perks of my work is that I get to help choose the wild species we are talking about! We try to show a wide variety of living things from all over Canada. So when my team and I decided we hadn’t been to film in British Columbia’s coastal rainforest is such a long time, I was stoked!

2026-05-28

What can we learn from 20,000 observations of amphibians and reptiles on roads in Canada? The first thing is that many amphibians and reptiles cross roads and perish on those roads every year.

2026-05-08

The Monarch Butterflies are back after a long winter in Mexico!

2026-04-21

B.C. Ferries says it is altering the timing of one of its main routes in northern B.C. in an effort to avoid hitting humpback whales.

2026-04-20

A company out of Victoria, B.C., has created technology that can detect marine mammals and is piloting it on a new electric passenger ferry.

2026-04-10

Community science (aka. citizen science) is transforming the way we understand and protect biodiversity.

2026-02-04

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has released its Whalesafe Fishing Gear Strategy, a five-year plan aimed at preventing whale entanglements, with an initial focus on the Atlantic provinces.

2026-01-30

The federal government has announced its decision not to list American Eel under the Species at Risk Act (SARA).

2026-01-16

A “shocking” amount of marine life is being ensnared in abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear adrift in Canada’s oceans, internal federal data reveals.

2026-01-13

Frequent users of the iNaturalist app and its online platform understand the potential for discovery inherent in its use.