biodiversity Archives - Cottage Life

Join a national science project from your cottage doorstep this weekend

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a photo of a marbled crayfish

Crayfish species found in Ontario could pose risk to other aquatic life

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Photo of Haliburton forest on a bright and sunny day, marshy lake with blue waster and trees in the distance

Haliburton forest becomes first in Canada to receive new OECM designation

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Bat populations are on a decline—this is why it matters

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Gatekeeper butterfly and two bees on pink cone-flower

Gravenhurst to adopt No Mow May campaign this spring

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Aerial panoramic sunset sunrise scene at swamps and wetlands of Big Creek National Wildlife Area near Long Point Provincial Park, Lake Erie shore.

Biodiversity loss is threatening Canada’s wetlands; here’s why it matters

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Nature Canada leads campaign to designate PEC as a National Marine Conservation Area

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Bees’ eye view: what sunflowers really look like (to pollinators)

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Holy carbon sink! League of Trees takes on climate change

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yellow spotted salamander

Wildlife populations drop by 68 per cent in 50 years

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Rondeau Provincial Park

Government proposes to extend Rondeau cottagers’ leases

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A russet-crowned Warbler (Basileuterus coronatus elatus), one of the birds with a steep decline in population at the top of the Peruvian Andes.

Why disappearing birds in Peru matters to you

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Long-time birder? This bird-tracking organization wants your records

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Large dark brown bull moose walking in a forest.

Ontario’s moose population in serious trouble according to new report

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Silhouette of migrating geese travelling in a V formation at sunset.

World’s wildlife population has declined by more than 50 percent since 1970

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Close-up of the green leaves and nuts of a butternut tree.

Could this endangered tree be the next Dutch Elm?

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