(September 03, 2021)   -   Follow Chrystal, Dan, Patrice and Evan to the field and see what WCS Canada's bird research team has been doing to research cumulative effects in Yukon.

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(August 05, 2021)   -   With the population declining, First Nations, environmentalists, and others are working together to safeguard boreal caribou — and their habitat — before it’s too late.

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(July 25, 2021)   -   CBC spoke to 3 scientists about impacts on animals in water, on land and in the air

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(June 21, 2021)   -   Dr. Matt Scrafford takes us through how the WCS Canada wolverine team in Northern Ontario is helping the communities near the Cascade Mountains in Washington to better identify wolverine tracks - in hopes to get more information on these elusive carnivores.

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(June 18, 2021)   -   This special webinar explored all aspects of work completed over the last two years to identify and delineate Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) in Canada, and presented plans for the next two years. 

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(May 25, 2021)   -    A presentation by Jaime Grimm for the International Association for Great Lakes Research 64th Annual Conference on KBAs for focus biodiversity conservation in Canada.

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(May 25, 2021)   -   The far north in Ontario is an aquatic haven. At least 50 species of fish can be found in the Arctic drainage basin in Ontario. Connie O'Connor and Meg Southee explain how they predicted which fish species are where,  how they identified key areas for freshwater diversity and why we should protect these habitats.

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(April 25, 2021)   -   The perfect coincidence of geothermally heated cliffs, a deciduous forest and wetlands created a unique mecca for bat species that is now being disturbed and logged to provide quarry rock for the relocation of a provincial highway for the Site C dam. An investigation by The Narwhal reveals government biologists and bat experts, like WCS Canada's Cori Lausen, fought to protect the rare hibernacula and critical habitat to no avail

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(April 21, 2021)   -   Using data extracted from underwater tape recorders,  WCS Canada's Western Arctic team concluded that that the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas bowhead whale population did not make their annual journey in 2018-2019. Dr. Stephen Insley states it is unclear whether this change was a migration anomaly and explains potential factors that could explain why this occurred. 

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(April 14, 2021)   -   The Yukon Government has embarked on a review of the rules around mining in the territory. WCS Canada weighed in with a comprehensive set of recommendations urging the government to create a framework that better acknowledges the significant ecological impacts of mining. Also featured: Punching a hole in caribou habitat - the implications of the proposed Kudz Ze Kayah mine project on the already struggling Finlayson Caribou Herd.

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