Extinction Crisis
October 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Endangered Species
A study just publicized by the IUCN confirms that there is a current global extinction crisis with one-fifth of our world’s vertebrate (backboned) animal species threatened. The study used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to investigate how the populations of mammals, birds, amphibia...
Tags: biodiversity, black footed ferret, Conservation, crisis, E O Wilson, extinction, IUCN, Nagoya, Red List
December 14th, 2009 by Alison Wheatley in Fun Stuff
A winner has been selected for the WWF Canada black-footed ferret adoption kit contest. Congratulations to Tim L. Walker of Barrie, Ontario, who has been noti...
November 30th, 2009 by Alison Wheatley in Fun Stuff
To help celebrate this historic Canadian wildlife conservation event/success story (see article below), WWF Canada has joined with VoicesForOurPlanet.com to offe...
November 30th, 2009 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Black-footed ferrets, once thought to be extinct, are turning into one of North America’s conservation success stories. History was made on October 2,...
Tags: black footed ferret, captive breeding, Conservation, Grasslands National Park, Parks Canada, reintroduction, Wildlife, WWF Canada
