Entries for June 2018

A big fish story - in maps!

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A big fish story - in maps!
(June 20, 2018) Freshwater fish are swimming upstream in a battle against everything from climate change to increased fishing pressure as new roads reach remote lakes.  Our new story map, The Water We Share, explains how we are studying the major challenges facing fish in Ontario’s Far North, including how we are identifying which watersheds should be priorities for conservation in this vast and largely untouched region. One of the biggest challenges for understanding the more than 50 fish species th...

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Seven Winters and 70,000 Kilometers

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Seven Winters and 70,000 Kilometers
(June 08, 2018) It took seven winters and 70,000 kilometres of flying over the vast forests and lowlands of far northern Ontario to build a picture of where wolverines are – and aren’t – in their easternmost North American outpost.  Our goal was to develop a method for accurately predicting where these elusive creatures were likely to be found in order to be able to track changes in their range in the face of climate change and resource development. We flew low and slow for hundreds of ho...

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Searching for Wolverines in a Vast Northern Wilderness

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Searching for Wolverines in a Vast Northern Wilderness
(June 08, 2018) It was truly like searching for a needle in a haystack: finding an average-dog-size mammal in a vast expanse of boreal forest larger than the state of California. Yet our seven-year effort at the conservation organization WCS Canada to survey the elusive wolverine in the province of Ontario has provided us with a much clearer picture of how this threatened species is faring in its easternmost North American outpost.Wolverines, especially males, have home ranges as large as 1,000 square...

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Photo credits: Banner | William Halliday © WCS Canada