Sustainable Forests

We all depend on forests. In addition to providing us with oxygen while absorbing carbon from the air, their dense vegetation and biodiversity also give us an abundant supply of resources, as well as natural tools that keep the ecosystem in balance. But despite the importance of our forests, vast areas are being wiped ou...

Endangered Ecosystems Mapping

Scientists are in the midst of creating a strategy that will help us to better understand and map threatened ecosystems. An international working group of...

UN Convention on Biological Diversity

The two-week UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference is underway in Nagoya Japan, with delegates from over 190 countries trying to agree to 20...

Europe’s Coastal Ecosystems

Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of...

Seabird Conference

More than 800 participants including world experts on penguins, puffins and albatrosses will be meeting in Victoria, BC, from September 7 to 11th as pa...

Black Rockfish Conservation

A Vancouver Aquarium conservation team led by Dr. Jeff Marliave has been trying to re-establish black rockfish along the shorelines of West Vancouver.  Once abundant in the area, the species was overfished in the mid 1900’s and virtually disappeared lo...