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Category: Species at Risk

Conservation intern responds to ESA ruling

June 4, 2015–Guest blogger

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Reptiles and Amphibians•Species at Risk

Blanding's turtle hatchlings © Scott Gillingwater

Last month, Ontario’s Divisional Court upheld the provincial regulation 176/13 which provides major industries, such as forestry, energy transmission and mining, extensive exemptions from prohibitions outlined in the once “gold ...

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ESA Regulation Legal Challenge

January 21, 2015–John Hassell

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Species at Risk

Woodland caribou

It is not easy to sit quietly in court while the opposing side takes a sledgehammer to your core values. For instance, as long as an endangered species doesn’t disappear ...

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Saving the Shrike

November 24, 2014–Guest blogger

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Birds•Species at Risk

Loggerhead shrike © Laurie L Snidow

I frequently visit the Carden Plain Important Bird Area in the Kawarthas to photograph the many birds that pass through there during spring and fall migration. Having read that it ...

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A quiet dismantling of environmental protection

October 20, 2013–Caroline Schultz

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Species at Risk

Boreal caribou © Paul Tessier

Don’t look now; the Ontario government is quietly doing a hatchet job on environmental protection. Under the guise of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) “transformation” and achieving a “balance” we ...

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Trouble in the Bat Cave

October 1, 2013–Guest blogger

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Species at Risk

It’s almost Halloween. Pumpkins abound and spooky decorations are showing-up everywhere. As a bat biologist, I enjoy seeing bats hanging from front yard trees and porch lights this time of ...

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