Species at Risk Task Force Report

Conservation groups are campaigning to get the BC government to introduce a law to protect 1,900 at-risk species. BC and Alberta are the only provinces in Canada with no endangered species legislation. Ecojustice, Sierra Club BC and the Wilderness Committee recently stated  that the BC government’s Species at Risk...

Invasive Species Handled, Naturally

Instead of using pesticides and herbicides that cause extensive environmental damage, conservationists are now using goats and sheep to clear away invasive pl...

Eating Invasive Species

Florida fishing derbies have a new target – to catch the invasive lionfish which threaten the Keys’ ecosystem, reports the New York Times.  The lionfi...

Costly Invasive Species

Invasive (non native) species are an ecological and financial burden. According to a recent study by the international scientific organisation CABI, in...

200 New Species

While finding 200 new species is amazing, what the Conservation International research team and the local researchers had to do to get to the new land says something about the state of our world....

Georgia Strait

“The last time anybody did a survey in the Puget Sound/Georgia Strait region, there were over 60 species that were considered at risk”, Christianne Wilhelmson, Georgia Strait Alliance’s Executive Director, told me yesterday. “At risk is a legal term base...

European Alien Invasion

Recently, invasive species experts have insisted Europe-wide legislation be established to protect indigenous species from the invaders, reports the BBC.  Researchers advise installing legislation as soon as next year, to try to decrease the 12 billion e...

BC Endangered Species

The Wilderness Committee is working with other leading environmental groups to establish some endangered species legislation in BC. Currently, BC and Alberta are the only two Canadian Provinces that lack such legislation. As the Wilderness Committee suggests ...

BC’s Endangered Species

British Columbia is the most biologically diverse province in Canada, with two dozen unique mammal species in an array of habitats, according to the Sierra Club.  While this is worthy of celebration, the fact that the province has hundreds of species...

Alberta Parks Management

The Alberta government  is reviewing and updating their parks system legislation.  They intend to compile and streamline three Acts dealing with provincial parks, wilderness areas, and heritage lands.  Highlights of the proposed legislation can be fou...

Conquering Invasive Species

Scientists are using some creative ways to get rid of invasive species that threaten other animals, plants, and even entire ecosystems, reports Scientific American. Hawaii has about 20 types of non-native algae, two of which are especially destructive, grow quickly, and destroy the coral and reef diversity.  When volunteers rem...