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Entries for January 2024

What we all lose as more of Canada’s wildlife disappears

(January 30, 2024) By Dan Kraus, Director of National Conservation Canada officially has less biodiversity than one year ago. Without much fanfare, the meter that measures the number of extinct wild species in Canada ticked down. Twice. You’ve probably never heard of the Enos Lake Stickleback pairs. Over the last few thousand years they evolved in an isolated lake on Vancouver Island north of Nanaimo BC. They were an example of evolution in action and were becoming two di...

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We can be the generation that holds on tight to our natural wealth

(January 05, 2024) This article was published in the National Observer. We have literally been watching global temperatures climb to new heights this fall in chart after chart of global temperature trends. It’s an easy way for us to grasp just how fast climate change is moving, but it also makes me wish we could present an equally clear and simple picture of biodiversity trends. Looking back over the past few years in biodiversity, there is one measure that stands out: the decline and extin...

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