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Into the bear pit: Conservation officer who refused to kill cubs leaping into...
Right now, in the dense rainforest of northern Vancouver Island, two juvenile black bears are doing what bears do naturally in the wild — thanks to Bryce Casavant. Casavant is the former B.C....
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Vancouver blogger’s campaign for Pacific Salmon Foundation shows new media...
There was a time when the three most influential people in this city, or pretty well any city for that matter, were the mayor, the police chief and the editor of the local paper. The editor made the...
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David Suzuki and Faisal Moola: Hunting animals for sport is ‘unethical and...
Throughout much of Canada, Indigenous peoples and non-aboriginal Canadians hunt and eat elk, moose, seal, caribou, geese and other wild game. Hunting is more than just a recreational activity in rural...
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Wayne Moriarty: What to do when wildlife comes in through your window
I live on the second floor of an old building with a tree of considerable vintage on the front lawn. At times, it feels like I live in the tree. Squirrels occasionally hang out on the sill of my...
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Robin Ganzert: We need to protect Canada’s endangered whale populations
Canadians can feel proud knowing that the Vancouver Aquarium, one of the country’s most popular and beloved attractions, is leading crucial new efforts to protect wild beluga whales at a time when...
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Cougar commute: Big cats caught strolling through SkyTrain station (with video)
A pair of cougars strolled through the Inlet Centre SkyTrain station in Port Moody early Saturday morning. Security camera footage released online by The Buzzer, TransLink’s free newsletter, shows the...
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Jan Hoole: Ancient DNA reveals how cats conquered world
Humans may have had pet cats for as long as 9,500 years. In 2004, archaeologists in Cyprus found a cat skeleton buried in a Stone Age village. Given that Cyprus has no native wildcats, the animal must...
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Mike Smyth: NDP does an about-face on grizzly-bear hunting
One week after angering environmentalists by approving the Site C dam, B.C.’s NDP government gave them an early Christmas present on Monday with a surprise ban on grizzly-bear hunting. The opposition...
View ArticleKelowna resident increases reward in case of beaver shot by arrows
Wildlife advocates are offering a $2,500 reward for information that leads to the conviction of whoever emptied a quiver of arrows into a West Kelowna beaver. The beaver still had four arrows embedded...
View ArticleBen Parfitt: Recovery plan for B.C.’s threatened boreal caribou only window...
At its most charitable, B.C.’s “recovery” plan for boreal caribou, one of our province’s most-threatened wildlife species, amounts to window dressing. At its worst, it looks a lot like annihilation....
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