by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Dec 18, 2018 | Loggerhead Shrike, Species at Risk
A look inside a shrike biologist’s toolkit By Hazel Wheeler There are many tools that are useful to a shrike biologist during the fi eld season: a good pair of binoculars to spot birds in large tracts of open alvar or pastureland; a spotting scope to get a...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Dec 7, 2018 | In the news, Species at Risk
The return from the brink of extinction: conservation success stories from New Zealand By Lisa Horn The environmental news is often a depressing onslaught of story after story about record-setting fires, killer storms, and the unprecedented loss of biodiversity around...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Nov 25, 2018 | Fraser Valley Wetlands Wildlife, Western Painted Turtle
During recent field monitoring of wild, juvenile western painted turtles, biologists from the Coastal Painted Turtle Project noticed an adult female turtle on shore. They continued their radio-telemetry work and when they were done, the turtle was still there. At this...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Nov 10, 2018 | Canada's New Noahs
By: Bridget Stutchbury, President of Wildlife Preservation Canada This October, Wildlife Preservation Canada welcomed Lance Woolaver Jr. into the executive director role following the retirement of previous executive director Randal Heide. Lance may be new to this...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Oct 27, 2018 | In the news, Species at Risk
Teaching the Life-Saving Art of Eavesdropping: Implications for Conserving Endangered Species By Lisa Horn Eavesdropping. We’ve all done it.For wild animals, eavesdropping is a survival skill that can save their lives. But can teaching captive-reared animals to...
