http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/ en isabelle.groc@gmail.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-01T20:15:53+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/where_have_all_the_barn_swallows_gone/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/where_have_all_the_barn_swallows_gone/#When:19:15:53Z In the last 20 years, the once-common barn swallow has declined by 70 percent. Watch our latest video to learn more about this amazing tiny bird and what we can do to protect it. 2012-02-01T19:15:53+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/searching_for_the_elusive_western_skink/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/searching_for_the_elusive_western_skink/#When:18:16:49Z Watch our latest video and learn about the story of the western skink, one in only two lizard species in British Columbia. 2011-09-01T18:16:49+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/spirit_bear_at_film_fest/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/spirit_bear_at_film_fest/#When:00:26:28Z The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest in the world. At 6.4 million hectares in size, it is larger than Switzerland, it has a dense web of natural life including towering ancient trees, grizzly bears, wolves, eagles, and streams that are the spawning ground for a fifth of the world’s wild salmon. It is the traditional territory of First Nations who have lived in the rainforest for thousands of years. It is also the home of the rare Kermode bear, also called the Spirit Bear. 2011-02-10T00:26:28+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/planning_to_protect_bcs_grizzlies/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/planning_to_protect_bcs_grizzlies/#When:02:34:51Z Only a few hundred years ago, North America’s iconic grizzly bears would feed, breed and roam as far south as Mexico. But decades of habitat loss and fragmentation, coupled with human-caused mortality caused by overhunting, poaching and collisions with trains and vehicles, have driven these bears out of most of their once-expansive historical range. 2011-02-04T02:34:51+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/home_run/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/home_run/#When:19:56:10Z This year the Adams River turned red when millions of sockeye salmon returned to their home river to spawn and die. People followed the salmon. 2010-10-25T19:56:10+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/grizzly_details_salmon_collapse_could_be_bad_news_for_bear/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/grizzly_details_salmon_collapse_could_be_bad_news_for_bear/#When:00:13:00Z Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of decreases in a principal food source: salmon 2010-02-03T00:13:00+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/grizzlies_starve_as_salmon_disappear/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/grizzlies_starve_as_salmon_disappear/#When:00:07:00Z As salmon numbers drop, bears are also few and far between along B.C.‘s wild central coast - signalling what conservationists say is an unfolding ecological disaster 2010-02-03T00:07:00+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/program_is_working_why_cut_marmot_cash/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/program_is_working_why_cut_marmot_cash/#When:00:01:00Z If the province doesn’t change its decision to cut funding to protect the Vancouver Island marmot, there may be very few around when Mukmuk, the mascot for the 2010 Games, steps into the spotlight. The Marmot Recovery Foundation is battling a $133,000 shortfall following a decision by the Ministry of Environment to cut its annual funding. 2010-02-02T00:01:00+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/species_at_risk_task_force/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/species_at_risk_task_force/#When:14:06:00Z Vancouver, BC - Environmental groups were greatly encouraged to see the provincial government move forward with their campaign promise of increased protection for species at risk in Monday’s throne speech.  The throne speech heralded the creation of a Species at Risk Task Force charged with suggesting a “new defining vision…that British Columbian’s can work together to achieve…” 2010-01-29T14:06:00+00:00 http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/the_burrowing_owl_10_things_to_you_ought_to_know/ http://www.protectbiodiversity.ca/blog/article/the_burrowing_owl_10_things_to_you_ought_to_know/#When:15:43:00Z Photo Credit: Paul Colangelo The poor Burrowing Owl doesn’t know what to do. He’s reached endangered status, but British Columbia has no endangered species act to protect him. What’s going on?! 2009-10-15T15:43:00+00:00