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Wildlife Conservation Society Canada 🇨🇦 Dedicated conservation scientists in action to bring about a world where wildlife thrives 🌎 #WeStandForWildlife 🔗 wcscanada.org

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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 2h
PAUSE. LISTEN. LEARN. REFLECT #NDTR26 On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we invite you to pause, listen, learn & reflect on the truths of Canada’s history of residential schools, the impacts of colonialism & how we move forward to build a foundation of mutual respect & partnership (1/4)
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 29/09/2026
(1/2) From scientists in the field to community members protecting local habitats, conservation is about people 💚   The People & Conservation category of the #2026KBAPhotoContest celebrates stories of connection, care & stewardship across Canada’s KBAs 🧵
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 28/09/2026
What makes a great photograph stand out? Last year’s KBA Photo Contest Grand Prize winner, Jérémy, has some advice: bring a unique point of view! In part two of our chat, he shares tips for finding your unique way of seeing and telling a story. Entries are open until Oct. 15!
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 27/09/2026
(1/3) Why should we care about Canada's rivers? #worldriversday
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 25/09/2026
$25M committed to Quebec for caribou, but still no strategy. WCS Canada’s Justina Ray spoke with The Guardian about maternity pens & habitat loss. More ↓
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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
The Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 23/09/2026
1/2 Have a landscape photo you love? 📸 The Landscapes & Ecosystems category of the #2026KBAPhotoContest is for you. Swipe through last year’s entries for inspiration! Submit by Oct 15 🦋 kbacanada.org/2026/08/19/capturing-…
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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 21/09/2026
Can Quebec save its caribou from extinction? “The introduction back into the wild is less of a success story if you haven’t repaired the things that are driving population decline to begin with,” says Justina Ray of @wcscanada.org. 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
The Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 21/09/2026
(1/2) Want to know what it takes to capture a winning shot in the KBA Photo Contest? We caught up with 2025 Grand Prize winner Jérémy Mathieu to discuss the contest, Canada's wildlife, and his winning image Herring Spawn.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 15/09/2026
📣 Calling all nature photographers! The Flora & Fungi category of the #2026KBAPhotoContest is your chance to showcase the incredible diversity of plant and fungal life across Canada's Key Biodiversity Areas, and help spotlight these vital places in the process 1/2
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 14/09/2026
"The Bear Clan is represented, symbolizing healers, protectors, medicine carriers & leaders." Across many Indigenous cultures, bears carry important teachings. Grizzly bears are also an umbrella species. Protecting the vast landscapes they need alo helps other species thrive. 🎨 by Grace Swain
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 11/09/2026
WCS Canada President Justina Ray will be joining The Better Ideas Show - details below ↓
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 10/09/2026
(1/3) Why didn’t the caribou cross the road?  🛣️ New research from WCS Canada, supported by the Caribou Conservation Stewardship Program, shows that roads create travel corridors that can remain long after they're abandoned/decommissioned, reshaping predator-prey dynamics & putting caribou at risk.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 09/09/2026
Fur, feathers, scales, shells… and a few very good poses 📸 #2026KBAPhotoContest The Fauna category celebrates the incredible animal life found in Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas. Swipe through for a look at some of last year’s entries - and maybe a little inspiration for your own 👀 1/2
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We aren't the only team at @wcscanada.org that uses bioacoustics! Much like our bat detectors record "bat sounds" our arctic team is busy recording ocean sounds with recorders installed on the seafloor. Great episode featuring our colleague Bill Halliday. #ListeningForWildlife (and boats)
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 04/09/2026
Rounding out our 2026 judging panel! #2026KBAPhotoContest  We're thrilled to welcome Julian Victor, wildlife filmmaker, educator, and Explorers Club Fellow, as a guest judge for the 4th annual KBA Canada Photo Contest! 🧵
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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 03/09/2026
🎧 LISTEN: On a new #WCSWildAudio episode, hear how artificial intelligence is helping @wcscanada.org scientists study underwater noise that can affect whales, seals, and other marine life. apple.co/4x98Cai
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 03/09/2026
Meet our next 2026 judge! #2026KBAPhotoContest We're thrilled to welcome Jacquie Matechuk, Canon Canada Ambassador and certified bear guide, as a guest judge for the 4th annual KBA Canada Photo Contest! 🧵
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 02/09/2026
This week, meet the judges deciding this #2026KBAPhotoContest's winners! 📸 First up: we're thrilled to welcome @damiansiqueirosart.bsky.social, founder and creative director of Terra Sapiens Collective, as a guest judge for the 4th annual KBA Canada Photo Contest! 🧵
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tools of a Bat Biologist: Bat Detectors 🦇 Bats navigate and hunt using ultrasonic calls—sounds too high for us to hear. Bat detectors bring those calls into our hearing range and allow biologists to record and examine them. What can we learn by listening to bats? A thread… 1/2
Image of a Little Brown Myotis in flight with a radio-tag on its back and a numbered split ring band on its wing. Image has bat with mouth open and there are lines indicating that it is echolocating. Text reads tools of a bat biologist: bat detectors. How do scientists listen to the night? Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Photo by Charles FrancisImage of Dr Cori Lausen, our director of bat research, setting up a bat detector for long-term monitoring at the edge of a wetland in a remote setting (grasslands and wet vegetation are seen in the background along with low mountains). Text reads Bat detectors - used by our Western Bat Team to record migrating bats and to determine the composition of bat communities. Deployed for months at a time. Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Photo of a red car with a roof-mounted microphone on top and cables leading to the car interior. Text reads roof-mounted microphones - used by our Western Bat Team as part of the North American Bat Monitoring Program - mobile transects. Logo WCS Canada Western Bat Program. Dimly lit photo of a masked bat biologist holding a bat bag in one hand and a detector in the other. Labels read "Bat in bag" pointing at bag (shown with lines indicating an echolocating bat inside vocalizing) and the labels Yuma? Little Brown? around the detector. Text reads Hand-held detectors- Used by our Western Bat Team along with morphological measurements to distinguish Little Brown Myotis from Yuma Myotis Photo by Jordi Segers
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 26/08/2026
1/2 What makes for a winning image in the KBA Photo Contest? Here's what our judges look for: ✨Creativity & Originality: fresh, personal, imaginative shots that make us stop scrolling ✨Composition & Technical Quality: how you use light, angles, and focus to guide the eye and tell a story
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 25/08/2026
(1/2) Conservation isn't only about science. It's also about the stories we tell, the relationships we honour & the ways we understand our place in the world. This commissioned artwork by Anishinaabe artist Grace Swain celebrates the connections between lands, waters, wildlife & people.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 19/08/2026
The 2026 KBA Photo Contest is back 📸  Share your best photos from Canada's KBAs & win up to $600 CAD. New this year: our Indigenous Storytellers category. 🗓️ Closes Oct 15 🔗 kbacanada.org/2026/08/19/capturing-… #2026KBAPhotoContest 1/2
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 14/08/2026
When do ringed seals haul out on the ice? WCS Canada researchers used camera traps to find out! We found a >50% chance of haul-outs when temperatures were above -4.3°C and winds below 20 km/h. These thresholds could help improve population estimates.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 13/08/2026
1/2 The Eastern Wolf is one of Canada's rarest and most unique species, and it's only found here 🐺   Genetically distinct from the Gray Wolf and more closely related to coyotes, the Eastern Wolf (Canis sp. cf. lycaon) has a global population of fewer than 1,000 individuals, most of them in Ontario.
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The Energy Mix @theenergymix.com · 10/08/2026
Reforms to Canada's impact assessment process for approving major projects would improve efficiency if they identified ecological risk and cumulative effects early in the process, Wildlife Conservation Authority Canada's Victoria Goodday says. www.theenergymix.com/better-decis... @wcscanada.org
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Aim For 'Better Decisions Earlier, Not Weaker Decisions Faster'
Proposed changes to Canada’s major projects permitting process could speed up approvals at the expense of protections for the environment and First Nations, critics warn.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 10/08/2026
When it comes to major projects, “the goal should be better decisions earlier, not weaker decisions faster.” Important reflections from our Public Policy Specialist @victoriagoodday.bsky.social in @theenergymix.com (1/2)
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 10/08/2026
There's still time to register for tomorrow's webinar with WCS Canada President & Senior Scientist Justina Ray exploring how the One Canadian Economy agenda is reshaping major project decision-making. Date: August 11, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM MST Register: www.actws.ca/webinars
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 06/08/2026
1/2 We're excited to introduce a brand-new interactive tool for exploring Canada's KBAs! Explore 23 data vignettes information about KBAs, including everything from information on species and ecosystems meeting KBA criteria to conservation actions, protected area coverage, and threats.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 31/07/2026
How are proposed federal regulatory reforms reshaping major project approvals & what does this mean for biodiversity and species at risk? Join WCS Canada’s Dr. Justina Ray for this timely webinar! Date: August 11, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM MST Learn more & register: www.actws.ca/webinars
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 29/07/2026
For this year's Monarch blitz, try visiting a Key Biodiversity Area! KBAs are fantastic places to spot these butterflies, with many in southern Ontario & Québec providing habitat during breeding & migration. You may also have sightings in some parts of the Maritimes, the Prairies, & southern BC.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 22/07/2026
1/2 Beluga Whales are known as the "canaries of the sea" - early mariners could hear their clicks, whistles and squeals right through the hulls of their ships. Born dark grey, they slowly turn white as they mature, a process that takes about seven years 🐳
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 20/07/2026
Canada's first high-speed rail project shouldn't come at the expense of the 18 Key Biodiversity Areas along proposed routes. Avoiding harm to KBAs must be a hard planning constraint. Learn more below 👇 
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Canada cannot afford to miss the biodiversity train
KBA Canada Technical Coordinator Chloé Debyser outlines the risks posed to 18 Key Biodiversity Areas by the proposed Alto high speed rail line, and how Canada's recently announced Nature Strategy already has the tools for common sense solutions
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 09/07/2026
The Arctic is at the forefront of climate change. WCS Canada's Arctic team is monitoring Ringed seals, Bearded seals & other marine mammals across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region using hydrophones, aerial surveys, and drones. Because ecological change here doesn't stay here ❄️ youtu.be/VeyVbr7-_-c
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Listening to the Arctic
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 08/07/2026
"Is this thing on?" 🦌 This curious moose wants to know why you're not subscribed to our newsletter yet - don't leave him hanging! 📩 Subscribe today: f.mtr.cool/llnxyaicph
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 07/07/2026
A 7-year land use plan for 39,854 km² of north-central Yukon, developed by the Dawson Regional Planning Commission with the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in Nation & the Yukon government. WCS Canada's Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle on why it stands apart ↓ www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/03/o...
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The Yukon is on its own path to keep its vast, sought-after landscape safe
The territory has a far more sophisticated and nuanced approach than the “economic zone” and fast-track development models now being advanced federally and in provinces such as Ontario.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 01/07/2026
A must-read open letter from Director of Bat Conservation Cori Lausen laying bare a long‑standing problem: federal conservation funding in Canada is arriving after the season when species need help 👇
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An Open Letter to Canada’s Wildlife
By Cori Lausen, WCS Canada Director of Bat Conservation Dear Canadian Species at Risk, We hope this letter finds you well. Spring is now officially behind us.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 30/06/2026
1/3 We close out this round of #2025KBAPhotoContest Honourable Mentions in three very different corners of Canada 🪽 Tundra flora pushing through the Arctic ground in Wapusk National Park and Area candidate KBA, MB - small, stubborn, and worth every bit of protection.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 29/06/2026
(1/2) Twenty‑five sites, spanning over 2,500 km² in Nova Scotia, have been nationally recognized as Key Biodiversity Areas - home to species like the Piping Plover, Blanding’s Turtle, and rare lichens 🌎 @birdscanada.bsky.social 📸 Oliver Prowse/Dwayne Sabine
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 29/06/2026
(1/4) The final part of our mini‑series on Canadian law & Indigenous rights returns to BC and the Yahey Decision (2021) #IndigenousHistoryMonth
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 26/06/2026
(1/2) Yesterday, the Webequie Supply Road was approved despite evidence of significant adverse effects, little evidence of technical feasibility, no clear examples of maintenance requirements or costs, and a poorly developed plan to mitigate environmental impact.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 25/06/2026
(1/3) Part three of our mini-series on Canadian law to mark National Indigenous History Month focuses on the Haida Decision of 2004 #IndigenousHistoryMonth
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 23/06/2026
(1/2) It's a delight to hear Taylor Galvin and Mary‑Jo Michell reflect on how the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellowship shaped their work and strengthened their connection to community & stewardship.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 23/06/2026
1/2 Some places stop you before you even raise your camera 🌌 #2025KBAPhotoContest Mount Monolith breaking through cloud on a clear fall morning in Tombstone Territorial Park KBA, YK. The Milky Way rising above a home in Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula, ON - currently being assessed for KBA designation.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 21/06/2026
June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day - a day to honour & celebrate First Nations, Inuit & Métis peoples. Visit our website for a list of resources to support your learning journey, including events, podcasts, films, and more! 📸 Peter Soroye 🎨 Grace Swain
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 18/06/2026
1/2 Rattlesnakes, scoters, a fox, and polar bears 🐻‍❄️ This round of #2025KBAPhotoContest Honourable Mentions captures unexpected encounters - a fox and young woodland caribou face-to-face in northern Newfoundland, and a Prairie Rattlesnake basking roadside in Grasslands National Park KBA (SK).
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 17/06/2026
There's still time to submit your application for the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellowship!  Our recent information webinar, where you can learn more about the opportunity, is now available on YouTube: f.mtr.cool/zusvnzilgt
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 15/06/2026
(1/3) Part 2 of our mini-series on Canadian law & Indigenous rights takes us to Yukon circa 2012. The Ross River Dena Council case confirmed the duty to consult applies at early stages of development #IndigenousHistoryMonth
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 12/06/2026
A rare moss. Thousands of gulls. Hundreds of Bald Eagles. Salmon returning season after season 🌊 The Squamish River recently became a Key Biodiversity Area, one of Canada's most important places for nature, a site of global significance for several species - and long overdue for recognition 🧵
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 10/06/2026
1/2 This round of #2025KBAPhotoContest images take us from forest floor to ocean 🌊 Two Orcas surfacing off Vancouver Island, dorsal fins cutting through still water. In Grasslands National Park KBA (SK), two Sharp-tailed Grouse locked in a lekking standoff, all puffed chests & stamping feet.
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WCS Canada @wcscanada.org · 10/06/2026
Want to know more about the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellowship? Then join our information session on Monday!  Join leaders from the host organizations and members of the Aunties Circle to learn what makes the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellowship unique.
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