The federal government is rejecting the recommendations of two of its own ministers and refusing to issue an emergency order protecting southern resident killer whales from "imminent threats" to their survival.

Polar Bear postdoc!!! 🦑

The federal government will recognize Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off B.C.'s northern coast in a historic agreement with the Haida First Nation.

Call & write to the Alberta Minister of energy & mines to SAY NO TO COAL MINING:

780-427-3740

🔘 My name is __.
🔘 I am against coal mining in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes.
🔘 Water, fish, climate, wildlife, ranching, recreation etc more important than coal.

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I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!

Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!

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A Federal Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge by environmental groups that claimed allowing the expansion of a massive container facility on British Columbia's waterfront would threaten the survival of southern resident killer whales and salmon. 

Indigenous fishermen on the Atlantic Coast have spent centuries—and millions of dollars—trying to get the government to uphold treaties made in the 1700s. And younger generations aren’t giving up.
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This is a fitting last piece for me to edit for @hakaimagazine.com—fish, First Nations, and DFO. Over 10 years ago, I wrote a piece about herring, First Nations, and fishing policy failures, which put me on the radar of the org that funded the magazine! hakaimagazine.com/features/the...

❗An Alberta logging group wants to change laws protecting at-risk species so it can log old-growth forests.

@phillipmeintzer.bsky.social explains how that would hurt the declining caribou populations.

Does the forest industry truly #loveABforests?

#conservation

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While researching a book for kids about language, I learned from a Yupʼik elder how climate change was affecting their language, b/c it was so tied to the landscape. A fascinating piece in @hakaimagazine.com about the Māori language revival and the natural world: hakaimagazine.com/features/to-...

Alberta’s lifting of restrictions on wolverine trapping could spell disaster for a declining population, writes Jason Fisher.

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"As climate change accelerates in the modern era, the story of Doggerland becomes a story of our future," writes Tristan McConnell of the submerged landscape beneath the North Sea.

Such a pleasure to fact-check one of the last features for @hakaimagazine.com:

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We’re hiring — this is a great job!

JOB: Director of Conservation (Ontario), @ncccnc.bsky.social

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"Over the past 70 years, fin whales have gone from being the most whaled whale to the most struck whale in the world."

Alarming @hakaimagazine.com story. Not even living in the ocean & being really fast is adequate protection from vehicles. #roadecology

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We’re hiring for NINE jobs at Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC): www.natureconservancy.ca/en/who-we-ar...

Some have flexible location anywhere in 🇨🇦.

Reading NCC’s website (esp. strategic plan, geographic & thematic work, recent annual reports) always helps to prepare.

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