wildlife

For the first time, the COVID-19 virus has been detected in Canadian wildlife.

Billions of these tiny plastic pellets are floating in the ocean, causing as much damage as oil spills, yet they are still not classified as hazardous.

Five hereditary Wet’suwet’en chiefs insist Coastal GasLink has no right to build its proposed pipeline, which, if completed, would carry 2 billion cubic feet per day of fracked gas from northeastern B.C. to a proposed processing facility on the Pacific coast.

Canadian documentary "Nature's Big Year" catalogues what wildlife ecologist Jason Fisher and his colleagues at the University of Victoria predicted; with fewer people in nature and that animals would take back their territory.

Indigenous leaders in British Columbia have expressed concerns over the tight timeline and lack of support in the government's plan for old-growth logging deferrals, while they underscore the urgency of preserving at-risk ecosystems.

Julia Davies, a lawyer turned activist, is helping wildlife groups to buy up land — and fight back against Britain’s biodiversity crisis.

Aly Hyder Ali works with Nature Canada teaching city-dwellers how to appreciate and protect birds.

Falling oxygen levels harming already struggling wildlife and drinking water supplies, say scientists.

Nearly 59 million hectares of forest have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off.

In February, a B.C. trophy hunter made headlines after posting Instagram photos of herself holding two local wolves she had killed. Outrage at her actions was matched only by people’s disbelief when they learned she was technically working within the confines of the law.

Eugenie and her boyfriend Pepsi were caught on tape getting frisky this past week at the Mount Washington captive breeding centre for endangered Vancouver Island marmots.

Millions of pet cats are estimated to kill billions of animals a year, but grain-free food can change cat behaviour, according to a new study.

More than 80 per cent of global farmland, which chews up natural habitat, is used to raise animals for meat.

A sobering new report says the world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.