biodiversity

With thousands of species on the move as the climate changes, a growing number of scientists say that the dichotomy between native and alien species has become an outdated concept and that efforts must be made to help migrating species adapt to their new habitats.

Biodiversity chief calls for countries to unite to halt rapid degradation of nature

World leaders met in France on Monday, August 26, 2019, to discuss some of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity, and warming oceans. The members of the G-7 — the world’s richest nations — walked away from that meeting with a plan to release $20 million in aid to the countries battling historic blazes in the Amazon. But one leader was notably absent: Donald Trump.

The federal government is spending $15 million and offering up the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, August 26, 2019, as he wrapped up several days of meetings with G7 world leaders in France.

Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday, August 23, 2019, he might send the military to battle the massive blazes.

Switching to a whole-foods, plant-based diet can deliver a host of benefits for people and the planet we call home.

The Nova Scotia Nature Trust says it has acquired the largest parcel of coastal land for conservation in its 25-year history.

Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."

Four days after Doug Ford's government spelled out 20-pages of weakened protections for Ontario's endangered species in an omnibus housing bill, an 18,000-page report by over 450 scientists culminated in one shocking fact: over one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.

Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said on Monday, May 6, 2019, in the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity.

Another group has come out against United Conservative leader Jason Kenney's proposal to sell public land in northwestern Alberta to help balance the province's books.

Researchers who have produced a map of the world's remaining intact land and ocean areas are urging international delegates at an upcoming meeting on biodiversity to set a target and push governments to conserve what's left of the wild.

Gobal wildlife populations have fallen by 60 per cent in the last four decades.

Environment and Climate Change Canada needs to work with other government departments to determine its priorities and action plan for meeting national biodiversity targets, a new report from the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development argues.

​The Trudeau government shifted environmental gears Tuesday, putting a greater emphasis on conservation efforts, but shying away from major new financial commitments for decarbonization and climate change initiatives.