Critter Care

Starting with the video of a bobcat playing with a toy on its homepage, Critter Care Wildlife Society’s website has some fun educational sections. In the Animals section are stories of some of the wildlife that have been in Critter Care’s comfort zone. The Society has cared for bobcats, black bears, opossums, and raccoons, and each has a story of their own as to what brought them into Critter Care...

Wildlife Photography

Wildlife Photography is popular, and has become more accessible to everyone with the advent of digital cameras, suggests Good Health.  Wildlife and photography have both become more popular over the last decade or so, I would add.  Just the fact that blogs like Good Health are wr...

Europe’s Coastal Ecosystems

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

Tiger Conservation and China

There’s a glimmer of hope coming from Chinese and Indian officials meeting in Beijing to discuss business interests and wildlife conservation, according to...

Vedanta – India Mine Report

The controversy about the proposed bauxite mine in eastern India heated up today with the release of a report by the Environment Minister’s committee th...

Smithsonian Online Fun

You would hope that our world’s largest museum and zoo has a wonderful collection of online resources, and the Smithsonian delivers.  They have one of the most extensive selections of live animal web cams, e-cards, wallpaper, and other online re...

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...

Eco-Summer Fun

With children spending more time around home in the summer, it can become a challenge to keep them entertained.  Since so many kids like computers, how about helping them to learn about our planet and its wildlife while they have fun? The most compl...

African Mammals Decline

A recent study shows that populations of large mammals such as zebra, buffalo and lion in the African national parks declined by an average of 59% between 1970 and 2005, a recent Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Cambridge University, RSPB and UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre study f...

Wildlife Friendly Gardens

It’s Canada Day today, and many Canadians will be spending time in their gardens.  And, of course, there are many summer days and evenings coming up that will be ideal to spend in a garden.  If you like to see wildlife around your garden, there ar...

Wildlife Photos

The International Conservation Photography Award winners show the most incredible photos of an amazing subject – the wildlife of our planet.  Several years ago I happened to be in Alberta during the summer when the Award winner’s photos were exhibited at...

Friendly Mascots

 “Mascot”, according to Wikipedia, means any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck and that represents a group with a common public identity such as a school, professional sports team, society, non profit organization, or zoo.  For t...

Wildlife Trivia

Considering the popularity of shows like Jeopardy, it occurred to me that you might enjoy an online wildlife trivia game. The Oracle Education Foundation’s ThinkQuest has six online animal quizzes, with one for each continent.  They’re egalitarian – they ...

See Wildlife Apps & Crittercams

Wildlife apps and cams can be a fun way to learn about animals.  From the new iPhone and iPad app iGorilla that helps users watch gorillas in Virunga National Park, to crittercams showing the world as animals see it, technology is giving us new ways to tune in an...

Conservation Quotes

Have you ever looked up wildlife conservation quotes online?  Leading quotation websites include conservation and the environment.  Here are a few of my favorites from this week’s readings: From the Quote Garden  : Don’t blow it –...