Whither the Greenbelt?
Opening up Ontario’s protected farmland, forests and wetlands to development would be a multi-generational disaster.
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conservation
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The Pollination Bomb
Insect decline is a big—and mostly overlooked—piece of the biodiversity loss puzzle. Les Anthony investigates.
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Hear the Whales
Just as the COVID pandemic arrived, I followed my curiosity after a few decades of landlocked living and moved to the ocean. I’d heard the whales had begun chatting with each other in an unprecedented way. Why?
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Elements Outfitters Partners with SALTS to Protect Alberta’s Incredible Landscapes
Built upon a shared desire to enjoy, respect, and advocate for Alberta’s incredible landscapes, it was a natural fit for Elements Outfitters to work with a local conservation organization to highlight the province’s rugged beauty and outdoor apparel to match.
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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
Trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time hunters and gatherers first settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of the world would have never emerged.
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Connecting the River to the Mountains
Éco-corridors laurentiens, a non-profit nature-conservation organization working to create a network of protected areas between Oka and Mont-Tremblant...
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Good News for a Change: The Conservation Alliance Expands Membership
When governments fumble, The Conservation Alliance picks up the ball. Words :: Ned Morgan. Wilderness for the Public Good We’re in need of some good news this year.…
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Darkwoods Conservation Area: Why We Need It More Than Ever
An update on B.C.’s Darkwoods, Canada’s largest privately-owned wilderness tract. words :: Ned Morgan // photo :: David Moskowitz. As the global population expands, humans need nature as a respite…
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Yellowstone to Yukon: A New Model of Mountain Conservation
Words :: Ned Morgan. As human populations continue to grow, urban development fans in haphazard fashion ever outward from city and town centres, heedless of the habitat swallowed up and…
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On the Frontlines: Indigenous Women Protecting Sacred Places
Widely known as the Broughton Archipelago, the traditional territory of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, ‘Namgis, and Mamalilikala First Nations is a pristine stretch of ocean and islands off the northeastern coast…
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Biophiliac: Road Warriors
At less than 20 years old, road ecology is an emerging scientific discipline—albeit one that should have been birthed earlier. After all, we’ve been messing up wildlife with roads for…
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Storytelling and High-Tech Art To Transform Vancouver Bridge For Salmon Conservation
A new cinematic experience is coming to Vancouver this June, juxtaposing the city’s urban landscape with the wonders of the great Pacific salmon migration. The brainchild of acclaimed Vancouver director…
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Something Fishy: Open Net Fish Farms are Destroying BC’s Wild Salmon Populations
In our Summer 2010 issue we ran a story about foreign-owned, open net fish farms in BC waters and the harmful effects they have on wild salmon populations. Back then,…
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Embrace the Darkness: Torrance Barrens Dark-Sky Preserve
It’s pitch black. You can’t see your hand in front of your face or your feet beneath you. But when you look up you can see millions of stars, planets…
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Photographers Without Borders: Helping Not-for-Profits Forge their Visual Identities Around the Globe
“A lot of the not-for-profits I was working for were doing life-saving, amazing work, but they couldn’t justify spending money on video and photos,” says Da Silva. “I did one…
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How To: Be a Regular Joe and Photograph Animals in the Wild
The first camera was an eye, the first film memory, and their first subjects the living natural world. Since that time we’ve been trying, one way or another, to record…
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River Wide : An Uncertain Future for Salmon & the Skeena River
River Wide is a fly fishing film about the Skeena River and a current environmental issue that threatens the entire west coast salmon population; the Petronas (LNG) liquid natural gas…
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People of a Feather: Mapping a Remote Community to Help Save the Arctic Eider
The Arctic Eider isn’t just any duck. The feather of this sea-ice dweller is the warmest in the world—a marvel of nature that allows the Eider duck to spend its…
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Escaping Extinction: Calls for More Protection for BC’s Vulnerable Grizzlies
The “bear” necessities of life have not come easy for North America’s grizzly bears. The last known California grizzly, an iconic animal that used to roam free, from BC all…
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