Zack Metcalfe
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About Zack Metcalfe
Zack Metcalfe is a freelance journalist, columnist and author based in Salmon Arm, BC. He specializes in biodiversity, climate change and travel writing, and enjoys running, rock climbing and chess. He can be followed on his personal website: thewanderingrook.ca. And you can follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thewanderingrook/
Empty streets during COVID-19 show how we’ve been poisoning ourselves
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a widespread lull in traffic and, along with it, notably cleaner air and lower levels of noise pollution.
One remote Fundy isle and the seabirds that claim it
This island is watched over by the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Wildlife Service. It was declared a migratory bird sanctuary in 1944 with accompanying conservation safeguards.
Bats and even trees have used "social distancing" to avoid extinction
Social distancing isn’t just a human thing. Some bats and trees dodged extinction by staying separated from deadly infections.
What happens when an endangered flower goes to Nova Scotia Supreme Court?
Nova Scotia naturalists take provincial government to court over at-risk species