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Endangered Species and Biodiversity #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: Canada is fortunate to be home to thousands of wildlife species and vast areas of land and water on which they depend. Unfortunately many of these species are in decline, due in part to human activities.
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Lakes & Rivers #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: With over two million lakes and rivers and 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, Canada has an incredible abundance of aquatic natural resources. Canadians share a deep connection to freshwater.
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Education and Leadership #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: CWF has been a leader in conservation education and leadership programming since our inception in 1962. We deliver programs to inspire conservation ethic for all and offer training that connects people with wildlife and nature through experiential learning.
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Fields and Forests #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: Canadian fields have an important role to play in supporting our communities, our economy, and our wildlife. The health of the majority of Canada’s wildlife depends on conservation actions taken in our fields.
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Coasts & Oceans #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: Few countries have histories as closely tied to the oceans as Canada. Canada’s waters are home to magnificent marine wildlife like the North Atlantic Right Whale, Beluga, Orca, and many others. It is also home to many Canadians that live in coastal communities who rely on the oceans for their livelihood, transportation, employment, food and enjoyment.
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Climate Change #DoMoreForWildlife
Description: Climate Change is a very complex and very urgent issue that affects the health and sustainability of wildlife, humans and our shared environment. Luckily there are many things that we can do as humans to mitigate many of the negative effects on our planet and wildlife. By doing more for wildlife, we are fighting climate change together.
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#DoMoreForWildlife
Description: Humans are incredibly similar to the non-human animals highlighted this week. Like other animals, humans communicate with each other, create structures, homes, families, relationships and communities.
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Conservation Science
Description: Learn more about what we do at CWF.
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Esri Canada and Canadian Wildlife Federation Announce Major Boost to Nature-based Education
Description: More students, educators and community groups will gain access to high technology mapping software and nature-based learning to enhance environmental stewardship, thanks to a new partnership between Esri Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF).
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#DoMoreForWildlife Engagement Calendar
Description: #DoMoreForWildlife Engagement Calendar
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Releases
Description: Get all the Canadian Wildlife Federation press releases on a variety of wildlife topics and issues.
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Sherwood's Forests Tree Farm
Description: Native trees and shrubs for naturaliation and reclamation. Some out of zone trees for anticipated climate change. Xeriscaping and low care trees and shrubs for landscaping.
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What is Climate Change?
Description: Have you noticed that the summers are getting longer and hotter, the winters shorter and milder? Maybe you think that's a change for the better. Think again.
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Troubled Water, Troubled Times
Description: Climate change resulting from human activities could be the greatest environmental threat facing life on this planet.
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Climate Change, Sea Change
Description: Today, the world is heating up faster than at any other time in 10,000 years. Global temperatures have risen significantly since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1700s.
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Canada's Changing North
Description: Canada's northern environment, wildlife and people are facing major changes. Global climate change, caused mainly by our urbanized activities in the south, is predicted to have its greatest impact in this region.
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Weighing the Evidence
Description: Students undertake research to gain a basic knowledge of climate change and to understand why there is debate about its validity, causes, and impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Roaming Biomes
Description: Students conduct research on the environment-monitoring capabilities of earth-observation satellites and write a report or give an oral presentation on the use of remote-sensing technology to measure the impacts of climate change on an ecological area.
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Regional Inquirer
Description: Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an aquatic ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.
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Natural Inquirer
Description: Students use interview techniques to research and write about an animal or plant affected by climate change.
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Facts and Falsehoods
Description: Students develop criteria for evaluating the quality, balance, and fairness of informational items representing views about climate change. They then review materials on the basis of their criteria, develop informational presentations, and report back to the class.
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Climate Watch
Description: Students participate in a national survey of bioindicators of climate change by gathering data on local plants and animals.
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Climate Connections
Description: Using picture cards, students play a variety of non-competitive games that explore the connections between human actions, climate change, and positive and negative impacts on wildlife habitat.
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Climate Change Challenge
Description: Students role-play caribou and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic tundra.
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Climate Change and Your Ecological Area
Description: Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.
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Support for Environmental Curriculum
Description: • Most Canadian educators agree that it is important for students to learn about environmental topics such as biodiversity loss and climate change. • 47 per cent of educators feel they have the knowledge and skills needed to teach about climate change, but only 23 per cent feel confident teaching about the behaviour changes needed to address the issue. Educators are less prepared to teach about biodiversity loss. • Despite these gaps, over 80 per cent of educators agree that environmental topics such as biodiversity loss and climate change should be integrated throughout K–12 schooling. • With strategic investment in educator training and deeper integration of nature-based education into curriculum, we can close these gaps and empower teachers to drive generational change.
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Wild About Turtles
Description: Learn more about Canada's turtles and the habitat they call home with this exciting edition to the “Wild About…” poster series.
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WILD About Pollinators
Description: This illustration shows native pollinators from all over Canada interacting with their environment and foraging among cultivated and native plants at various times of the year.
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Can You Feel the Heat?
Description: By 2100, average temperatures could rise by how many degrees?
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Friends of the Forest
Description: By Annie Langlois<br />The world’s forests cover 31 per cent of the global land area. These diverse ecosystems, which include the lush Amazonian jungle and the Canadian boreal forest, are home to about 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. It’s no wonder that the United Nations has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests.
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iNaturalist CSI: Invasive Insects
Description: Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) for a webinar on how to photograph and identify Canada’s top 10 invasive insects using iNaturalist.ca, presented by the Canadian Council on Invasive Species (CCIS). Nearly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface is at risk of plant and animal invasions. Invasive species are threatening Canada’s ecosystems, economy and communities. Climate change is also exacerbating this issue and can make ecosystems more vulnerable to invasive species, and invasive species can worsen the impacts of climate change. The good news is - you can help! Learn how to ID Canada’s top 10 invasive insects so you can report them, helping to stop their spread. Every report helps scientists track and protect Canada’s natural spaces and biodiversity from the negative impacts of invasive species. iNaturalist has become one of the world’s most popular nature apps and the Canadian Wildlife Federation has led the charge in bringing it to the forefront of Canadian citizen science. Date: June 28th, 12:00-1:00 Eastern Host: Kellie Sherman, Operations Supervisor at CCIS presenting, James Pagé to host.
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iNaturalist CSI: Invasive Plants
Description: Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) for a webinar on how to photograph and identify Canada’s top 10 invasive plants using iNaturalist.ca, presented by the Canadian Council on Invasive Species (CCIS). Nearly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface is at risk of plant and animal invasions. Invasive species are threatening Canada’s ecosystems, economy and communities. Climate change is also exacerbating this issue and can make ecosystems more vulnerable to invasive species, and invasive species can worsen the impacts of climate change. The good news is - you can help! Learn how to ID Canada’s top 10 invasive plants so you can report them, helping to stop their spread. Every report helps scientists track and protect Canada’s natural spaces and biodiversity from the negative impacts of invasive species. iNaturalist has become one of the world’s most popular nature apps and the Canadian Wildlife Federation has led the charge in bringing it to the forefront of Canadian citizen science. Date: August 30th, 12:00-1:00 Eastern
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iNaturalist CSI: Invasive Aquatics
Description: Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) July 26th, 12:00-1:00 Eastern for a webinar on how to photograph and identify Canada’s top 10 invasive aquatics using iNaturalist.ca, presented by the Canadian Council on Invasive Species (CCIS). Nearly one-fifth of the Earth’s surface is at risk of plant and animal invasions. Invasive species are threatening Canada’s ecosystems, economy and communities. Climate change is also exacerbating this issue and can make ecosystems more vulnerable to invasive species, and invasive species can worsen the impacts of climate change. The good news is - you can help! Learn how to ID Canada’s top 10 invasive aquatics so you can report them, helping to stop their spread. Every report helps scientists track and protect Canada’s natural spaces and biodiversity from the negative impacts of invasive species. iNaturalist has become one of the world’s most popular nature apps and the Canadian Wildlife Federation has led the charge in bringing it to the forefront of Canadian citizen science.
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Climate and Wildlife
Description: How is climate change impacting wildlife? Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation for an interactive webinar where we’ll discuss the four components of habitat that wildlife (and humans!) need to survive, and explore what happens when these things are impacted by climate change. We’ll also share some hands-on projects to inspire you to take action for wildlife in your own schools and communities! Nov 30, 2022 - 12:00 PM-13:00 PM (Eastern)
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Polar Bear
Description: This month we’re featuring this stunning photograph of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus).
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Polar Bear on Ice
Description: Download this wallpaper of a polar bear.
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Peary caribou
Description: This month we’re featuring this stunning photograph of a Peary caribou
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Orca
Description: Your desktop is the perfect habitat for this wild wallpaper! This month we’re featuring a pod of killer whales (Orcinus orca) gliding through the waters off of Victoria Island, British Columbia.
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Newfoundland’s Cape St. Mary
Description: Your desktop is the perfect habitat for this wild wallpaper! This month we’re featuring the serene nature of Newfoundland’s Cape St. Mary’s coastline.
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Delicate Frost Art
Description: Download this wallpaper.
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Dove
Description: Download this wallpaper of a dove.
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Butterfly
Description: Download this Butterfly wallpaper.
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Bumblebee
Description: Download this Bumblebee wallpaper.
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Autumn Colours
Description: Download this Autumn Colours wallpaper.
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2009 Reflections of Nature Photo Contest Winner/grand gagnant de 2009 de notre concours de photographie
Description: Your desktop is the perfect habitat for this wild wallpaper! This month we're featuring our grand prize 2009 Reflections of Nature Photo Contest winner from Orangeville, Ontario.
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Hinterland Who's Who Fact Sheets
Description: Check out the facts for amphibians and reptiles, birds, fish, mollusks, insects, pollinators and mammals! We’ve even got information specific to species at risk, the boreal forest species, and species affected by climate change! So why not learn a little bit more about these Canadian creatures
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The Green Party
Description: The holidays are about living large: lots of fun, food and festivities. Still, you don't have to turn into an über-consumer. If climate change is on your mind, here are a few simple ways to trim carbon emissions from your get-togethers and keep things stylish and seasonal
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Green Your Halloween
Description: CWF wants to help you get green for Halloween – and we don’t mean the ghoulish green of your costume! Climate change is scary enough on its own; let’s do what we can to reduce our impact every day.
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Dream your Dream Green Home
Description: Two former Montrealers share the trials and rewards of building their dream mountainside eco-home. Of course, not all of us can build a house on a mountain, but there's nothing stopping us from imagining what our ideal green home might look like. After all, every good greening project begins with an idea and every perfect home starts out as a dream.<br>
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Canadian and American Conservation Organizations Strengthen Partnerships to Address North American Nature Crises
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and U.S. based National Wildlife Federation (NWF) are pleased to announce that they have pledged to build upon a historic Memorandum of Understanding to address the immense and interconnected challenges facing wildlife and people.
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Southern Ontario’s native seed strategy: a regional solution to address biodiversity, climate resilience, and reconciliation
Description: New strategy maps out steps to scale up native seed supply to meet growing demand for seeds and plants.
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Wildlife biggest winner in City Nature Challenge
Description: The results are in for the 2024 City Nature Challenge, a massive international effort to track and showcase global biodiversity. In collaboration with the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF), 40 Canadian cities competed to observe wildlife with Metro Vancouver Regional District, Montreal, Cape Breton Regional Municipality and Kincardine leading the way in different categories.
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Help Raise Awareness and Support Monarch Butterfly Conservation: Join the 2024 Monarch Blitz, 26 July–4 August!
Description: The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is back for its eighth edition from 26 July to 4 August 2024! The Blitz provides a unique opportunity for individuals and organizations in Canada, Mexico and the United States to join forces across international borders to safeguard this iconic North American species.
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Green Budget Coalition presents Budget 2025 recommendations to Finance Committee
Description: The Green Budget Coalition (GBC) released a comprehensive set of strategic recommendations for the 2025 federal budget to address the climate and biodiversity crises while reducing future costs and improving affordability and quality of life for people across Canada.
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CWF Supports Expanded Efforts for Monarch Butterfly Conservation as Canada Lists Species as Endangered
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is hopeful that more Canadians will join Monarch Butterfly conservation efforts now that the species is formally listed as Endangered
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CWF Launches Great Canadian Bioblitz to Track Biodiversity Across Canada
Description: Canadians coast to coast are invited to participate in the inaugural Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) Great Canadian Bioblitz, an event designed to track and showcase biodiversity using the iNaturalist.ca platform.
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CANADA’S NEW NATURE STRATEGY SETS THE STAGE FOR ACTION
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is encouraged by the Nature Strategy and calls on the federal government to make faster progress on existing programs for biodiversity and commit to additional actions to meet the new national biodiversity goals.
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Beluga and Arctic Fox Focus of New Hinterland Who’s Who Videos
Description: The Beluga Whale and Arctic Fox are the focus of the newest Hinterland Who’s Who (HWW) public awareness campaigns launching this month. The new videos on the Beluga Whale will be released on Oceans Day June 8 while the Arctic Fox will be released on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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CWF Invites Canadians to Help Build a National Native Seed Strategy Framework
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is launching an outreach initiative to engage partners and stakeholders in developing a National Native Seed Strategy.
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New Videos Released by Hinterland Who’s Who Long-billed Curlew PSA Wins International Award
Description: The American Eel and Round-leaved Sundew are the focus of the newest Hinterland Who’s Who (HWW) public awareness campaigns. The HWW program is also celebrating the success of last year’s Grassland series as the 2022 videos on the Long-billed Curlew secured the top prize (Gold) in an international competition for Public Service Announcements (PSA).
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Canadian Youth to Attend UN Climate Conference
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to congratulate the students selected to join an international delegation going to the COP28 United Nations Climate Conference this December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation and Lanark County Co-host Native Milkweed Collection and Planting Event
Description: On Saturday, community members of Lanark County gathered to celebrate the success of a $607,400 Grow grant awarded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF). Encouraging people to support a healthy and sustainable environment, this initiative is helping conservation and restoration efforts be better planned and more sustainable and has an impact on the lives of 22,000 people in the community.
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Canada must scale up funding to meet climate and nature targets, urge 22 leading environmental organizations
Description: The impacts of the worsening climate and biodiversity crises continue to be felt across Canada and around the world. With a fall economic statement expected soon and the UN climate COP28 starting on November 30th, the Green Budget Coalition today released a comprehensive set of fiscal recommendations for how the federal government can simultaneously address these linked climate and biodiversity crises, while strengthening Canada’s economy and improving affordability and quality of life for people in Canada.
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407 ETR and the Canadian Wildlife Federation working to restore the equivalent of 22 football fields of land to enhance monarch butterfly and pollinator habitats along roadsides in the GTHA
Description: With the growing urgency of the climate crisis, 407 ETR is putting a greater emphasis on biodiversity, and supporting organizations focused on enhancing and protecting Ontario’s green spaces
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Intergenerational Gardening Blooms at Bruyère Village in Orleans
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) has received funding in part from the Government of Canada’s New Horizons for Seniors Program. The funds will be used to create a WILD Generations Gardening Club pairing tenants of Bruyère Village with Grade 8 students at Terry Fox Elementary School, Orleans, Ont.
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Habitat Loss Most Common Threat to Canada’s Biodiversity
Description: Habitat loss is the most common threat to Canada’s biodiversity and must be addressed through strong government policies and personal actions, warns the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) as world leaders prepare to meet in Montreal for the United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference.
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CWF Releases National Database of Aquatic Barriers in Canada
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to announce the full release of the Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database (CABD), the first publicly accessible inventory of its kind in Canada.
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CWF JOINS CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL GRASSLAND CONSERVATION STRATEGY
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is part of a delegation heading to an international grasslands summit in Colorado this weekend, saying there is an urgent need for co-ordinated tri-national action.
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CWF BAT CAPTURE AND TRACKING PROJECT LAUNCHES IN CUMBERLAND
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is planning a live and safe bat capture, tagging and tracking project within a 425 acre outdoor classroom east of Ottawa.
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CWF and Green Budget Coalition Urge Canada to Reverse Biodiversity Loss
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) joins the Green Budget Coalition in urging Canada to scale up funding to meet climate and nature goals.
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CWF and Canadian Nature Groups Welcome Global Deal to Reverse Nature Loss by 2030 at COP15
Description: Canadian environmental groups welcome the Kunming-Montreal Agreement at COP15 in Montreal to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030 and applaud Canada’s leadership, which was instrumental in landing the deal.
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Canadian environmental groups call for ambitious global and national action to save nature before it’s too late
Description: In the leadup to the UN’s COP15 (NatureCOP) in Montreal, 17 Canadian environmental organizations are calling on Canadian and world leaders to deliver a win for the future of people and the planet by landing a new global deal to save nature and committing to a national action plan to achieve this at home.
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CWF AND GREEN BUDGET COALITION CALL FOR AMBITIOUS ACTION ON BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE
Description: The Green Budget Coalition has released a comprehensive set of recommendations on how the next federal budget can meet the challenge of fighting the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Canada’s Budget Includes Welcome News for Wildlife
Description: The new federal budget includes several important investments in the conservation of wildlife and habitat which will support the economy and help address the biodiversity crisis, the Canadian Wildlife Federation says.
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CWF supports the federal government’s strengthened climate plan, which benefits both the environment and the economy
Description: CWF supports development of government policy and legislation, industry action and consumer actions to reduce emissions to a level that meets Canada’s commitment to the global target to not exceed a 1.5 degree increase in the average temperature of the planet.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation Welcomes Major Investments in Recovering Economy through Conservation Actions
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federationwelcomes major investments in recovering Canada’s economy through actions to conserve wildlife and habitat and reduce green house emissions. The allocation of $3.16 billion to make good on the Liberal platform promise to plant two billion trees moves this ambitious goal from planning to action. The two billion trees must strike a balance between supporting Canadians in the forestry industry whose jobs have been affected by COVID 19, and creating significant climate, biodiversity, and well-being benefits for all Canadians.
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CWF calls for National Pollinator Recovery Strategy
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is calling for the creation of a national pollinator recovery strategy featuring pollinator pathways and a comprehensive pollinator monitoring program.
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Canadian Wildlife Federation Welcomes Federal Budget
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to see an expansion of the Canada Service Corps in the 2019 federal budget.
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Fisheries Act Updates Improve Conservation of Canada’s Oceans, Lakes and Rivers
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is celebrating the passage of several updates to the Fisheries Act which improve the conservation of our oceans, lakes and rivers.
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Unique partnerships forming to restore imperiled Monarch butterfly in Ottawa and Lanark County thanks to a $58,000 OTF Grant
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is launching a new Monarch butterfly recovery project in Eastern Ontario thanks to a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) and the partnership of the National Capital Commission, Hydro One, and Lanark County. <p></p><p> “I’m proud to announce the Ontario Trillium Foundation is supporting The Canadian Wildlife Federation with this $58,000 seed grant,” said Merrilee Fullerton, MPP Kanata-Carleton. “It’s an important investment in an outstanding organization that does so much for our entire community.” </p>
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CWF thanks Canadians for helping endangered species like pollinators and turtles
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is thanking Canadians for helping endangered species including turtles and pollinators as we approach International Day of Biodiversity May 23 and World Turtle Day May 24.
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CWF Experts Available to Discuss Next Steps for Habitat Conservation as Federal Budget is Announced
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) expects to be applauding new federal investments to protect Canada's land, inland waters and oceans in tomorrow’s federal budget. Protecting key habitats are critical to the future of Canada’s terrestrial and marine wildlife and maintaining a strong connection to nature among Canadians.
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Conservationists Urge Federal Government to Protect American Eel
Description: Increased federal action to protect and recover American Eel is urgently needed, say the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and nine other partners in conservation including the Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative, the Lanark County Stewardship Council, Nature Québec, Ontario Nature, the Ontario Rivers Alliance, and Trout Unlimited Canada.
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The Canadian Wildlife Federation launches Hinterland Who’s Who videos about Pacific Salmon as researchers analyze new data
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to release a new Hinterland Who’s Who (HWW) series of videos about Pacific Salmon as research on the migration patterns of these amazing fish continues.
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LAUNCH ON PARLIAMENT HILL FOR CROSS - CANADA BIOBLITZ CANADA 150 EVENTS
Description: Discovering B iodiversity Even at the H eart of the Nation’s Capital
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CWF is encouraged by federal budget support for oceans and freshwater
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) welcomes the federal government’s investment in ocean protection, freshwater conservation and aquatic invasive species management in the budget announced today. However, CWF continues to urge governments to address and prioritize conservation issues for the health, economic, social and spiritual well-being of Canadians.
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Bats rescued for Christmas
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is thanking the community of Almonte, ON for helping to rescue 46 bats this holiday season and calling for donations to support the mammals until they can be released back into the wild in spring.
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NEW CWF CEO SEAN SOUTHEY WILL LEAD CRITICAL EFFORTS CONNECTING CANADIANS TO NATURE
Description: The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is thrilled to announce the hiring of Sean Southey as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With a strong background in conservation leadership, Southey will spearhead the organization's mission to connect Canadians with nature and restore endangered habitats. His extensive experience in international development, communications, and conservation sectors will be instrumental in advancing CWF's top priorities, including transformative education. He will officially take on his new role on Sept. 16, 2024.
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Why Whales Matter
Description: he giants in our oceans contribute significantly to the marine ecosystem, both in life and in death. While they swim across the planet’s oceans, whales’ nutrient dense excrement provide sustenance to many species. And when they stop swimming, their carcasses become rich feeding grounds for many other creatures. And as surprising as it may seem, these ocean giants might even play a part in fighting climate change. Is there anything these titans can’t do?
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To help fight climate change, give your shopping habits a makeover, advocates say
Description: Changing our relationship with stuff may be one of the most powerful ways to address a warming planet
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The Climate Exchange
Description: The Climate Exchange is a very useful database for answers to all-levels of questions about climate change.
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Surprising Heroes in the Fight Against Climate Change
Description: today, we’re taking a look at four surprising heroes in the fight against climate change! Seriously, be prepared for your jaw to drop.
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Study ties hay/pasture conversion to biodiversity loss
Description: The federal government’s climate change mitigation strategy encourages the conversion of farmland to hay and pasture but this Ontario study shows a trend in the opposite direction.
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Rewilding 101: Should We or Shouldn’t We Rewild Landscapes?
Description: Urbanization, biodiversity loss, climate change – human impact has undeniably taken its toll on the planet.
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Redrawing the Arctic’s Wildlife Map
Description: Beavers in the Arctic? That’s right, you read it correctly. When you picture the Arctic, what comes to mind? Snow, ice, frigid temperatures, and perhaps the iconic Polar Bears, seals or reindeer. But the Arctic is changing. The effects of climate change are transforming this vast tundra, opening the door for wildlife to venture into the region in ways never seen before.
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Endangered right whales have moved because of climate change — into dangerous waters
Description: At the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Christy Hudak, a researcher in the Right Whale Ecology Program, leaned over a microscope looking at a water sample, counting and categorizing different kinds of plankton.
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Living Life for Living Labs This Summer
Description: Our interest is not only in mitigating climate change, but also on how efforts to store carbon affect biodiversity. We think that there is huge potential to conserve grassland wildlife as well as store more carbon. A win-win for the environment and society.
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Key to Protecting Canada’s Wildlife and Biodiversity
Description: Of all the threats affecting the future of Canada’s wildlife and wild spaces, perhaps the greatest is apathy. Those who feel powerless in the face of mounting issues related to conservation, climate change, and the environment often wind up taking little to no action in supporting the cause. Fortunately, a wave of young Canadians across the country are taking up the fight to ensure a brighter future for our natural environments and wildlife populations.
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John Abbott, one of the first CEGEPs to launch a Climate Action Plan
Description: The Climate Action Plan is officially being launched at John Abbott's Earth Day celebration on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Students, employees, and external groups, such as the Canadian Wildlife Federation, will come together for a day filled with activities and information booths.
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How 'bat boxes’ could help revive the depleting bat population
Description: The Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, launched the Canadian Bat Box Project this year to help bat populations recover with the assistance of community scientists