What’s Peat Got To Do With It? “We are talking about the peatlands. We see them as the breathing and cooling lands for the planet, [They are] the third-largest wetland in the world and one of richest carbon storehouses on Earth.” — Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief, Jonathan Solomon Written by: […]

Game Changer Silent Spring goes Digital in Forest Catherdal Written by: Kelly Hornung Most of us started learning about environmental history in a classroom, through a mandated curriculum. We might get snippets in the news, or hear the names of scientists used in conversations to back up a point. But […]

Photo: ArctiConnexion; the late Abraham Ukuktunnuaq at Long Lake Solid Grounding How IQ – or Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, meaning traditional knowledge – is contributing to a more holistic conservation model with the Aviqtuuq IPCA in Nunavut Written by: Mélanie Ritchot Giving his son his first bite of country meat — or […]

Dollars and Sense Building a Better Conservation Model Written by Emma Bocking Some weeks it feels like all I do is have meetings about meetings. A typical spring day as a conservation biologist in 2021 involves facilitating virtual breakout rooms, compiling grant reports and composing follow-up emails. Sometimes, especially at […]

What Lies Beneath Canada’s first carbon map will help us fight the climate and biodiversity crises Written by: Siobhan Mullally Nature is already working to mitigate climate change, so protecting it is one of our best defenses. That was the message from Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, Jonathan […]

Great Auk from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon (1785 – 1851), etched by Robert Havell (1793 – 1878). Source: rawpixel.com We Called them Penguin What the Extinction of the Great Auk Tell Us About How We Manage Species-At-Risk Written by Zack Metcalfe Canada’s eastern shore is much […]

Publisher’s Note By David McConnachie A few years ago, I was having a humorous conversation with a friend who teased me that environmentalists (‘tree-huggers’ was the exact phrase) were so detached from their own humanity because they were obsessed with other things, like trees, whales and the like. I corrected […]