BC is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a captive breeding program to protect spotted owls. With an estimated six of the owls left in the wild in Canada, all in BC, that seems like good news. But while the program includes some habitat protection, the province is also approving logging in habitat the owl needs […]
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SCIENCE MATTERS: When does plant and animal species loss become a societal crisis?
It’s heartening, in the midst of the human-caused sixth mass extinction, to find good wildlife recovery news. As plant and animal species disappear faster than they have for millions of years, Russia’s Siberian, or Amur, tigers are making a comeback. After falling to a low of just a few dozen in the mid-20th century, the […]
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Worm finds a new fisheries hope?
Three years ago, Dalhousie marine biologist Boris Worm made international headlines when he warned that all the world’s seafood could disappear by 2048 unless drastic measures were taken to protect fisheries. Worm’s paper, “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services,” which was published in the journal Science, was hotly contested by other scientists, including […]