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‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/24/extinction-crisis-could-see-500-bird-species-vanish-within-a-century-report-aoe #birds #extinction #SpeciesAtRisk #ClimateChange #biodoversity #ClimateCrisis

Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/trump-administration-national-forests-logging #uspoli #trump #NationalForests #environment #biodiversity #SpeciesAtRisk #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

Just got back from protesting #bill5. Got some supportive drivers, and 1 person even signed my petition. This is not supported by the people of #Ontario. Going out again tomorrow.

#onpoli #onenvironment #endangeredspecies #speciesatrisk #OLA

New publication: The applicability of regional red list assessments for soil invertebrates: first assessment of five native #earthworm species in Canada. #speciesatrisk #soilfauna #extinctionrisk #soil #biodiversity #climatechange #landuse
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03068-z

Figure 1 in Phillips et al. (2025): "The five earthworms native to Canada that were assessed using the IUCN-based Red List Assessment. (a) Arctiostrotus fontinalis, (b) Arctiostrotus perrieri, (c) Arctiostrotus vancouverensis, (d) Sparganophilus tamesis and (e) Toutellus oregonensis (photographs from Reynolds 2022; with permission)"

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-ucp-have-successfully-doomed-albertas-caribou
#speciesatrisk #abpoli #cdnpoli

Government of Alberta prioritizing economic priorities over protecting endangered caribou.
#speciesatrisk
Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan draft presentation
I am completely disappointed in the GoA!
#abpoli #caribou

Today I went to see the rarest snails in the world. These critically endangered mollusks exist only in a little pond in Banff. Since it's a sulphur hot spring, the whole area smells of snail farts.

In other news, I sold another poem.
https://bowvalleynaturalists.org/natural-history/snails/ #snail #CriticallyEndangered #SpeciesAtRisk #molluscs #mollusk #FreshwaterSnail #WildlifePhotography #PoetryCommunity

A close-up of a water surface with green algae and several small snails scattered among pond scum and fallen leaves. The snails are about the size of orange seeds.

#NoTarrifsOnNature #Sustainability #SaveThePlanet #ClimateAction #WildlifeConservation #SaveTheTurtles #EndangeredSpecies #SpeciesAtRisk #WaterlooRegion #Cambridge #Kitchener #Waterloo #Wilmot #Woolwich #Wellesley #NorthDumfries #ExploreWR #WRAwesome

Laugh if you want, but sharks are in trouble and humans are to blame. You're more at risk of getting killed by a vending machine statistically speaking. They are fascinating and woefully misunderstood.

#sharks #speciesatrisk #marinelife

Why some scientists want to rebrand shark attacks as 'negative encounters' | CBC Radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.6111381/why-some-scientists-want-to-rebrand-shark-attacks-as-negative-encounters-1.6113259

Spotted hyena returns to Egypt after 5,000 years https://earth.com/news/spotted-hyena-returns-to-egypt-after-5000-years/
Sadly "This lone individual was caught and killed by locals in the Elba Protected Area, a remote region in southeastern Egypt about 30 km from the Sudanese border."
#Egypt #extirpatedspecies #speciesatrisk

For #insertAnInvert a print about how monarch butterflies who are fooled into laying eggs on the invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) due to its similarities to its host plant milkweed are cursed to hatch larvae which starve and die. Dog-strangling vine unlike milkweed doesn’t serve as a food source for the caterpillars, 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #sciart #monarchButterfly #urbanEcology #invasiveSpecies #speciesAtRisk #insertAnInvert2024 #MastoArt

print on 11” x 14” paper with a gel plate print in green with swirling dog-strangling vine with leaves and pods along with a flying linocut monarch butterfly in tints of orange, white and black. The monarch looks surrounded and the intent is for the green and the vine to look threatening like it is being encircled. It’s titled “European swallowwort and monarch butterfly,” signed Ele Willoughby and dated 2024.

#WarblersPodcast #BirdsCanada #Birds #speciesatrisk #Nightjars #goatsuckers #Canada #Ontario #ONBirdAtlas3 #Migration #NightSurvey #Fieldwork #frogs #pesticide
Check out our programs at https://www.birdscanada.org/you-can-help/citizen-science

A screen capture of the Birds Canada webpage for "Where we work", it states Select a province or territory to discover our programs" and shows a map of Canada and the names of several provinces.

#WarblersPodcast #BirdsCanada #Birds #speciesatrisk #Nightjars #goatsuckers #Canada #Ontario #ONBirdAtlas3 #Migration
P.S. #NightSurvey #Fieldwork for #frogs and #birds really rocks! Check out the links &try out the monitoring.
Plus remember to manage/limit your #pesticide use as herbicides decrease plants & insecticides decrease bugs & both are needed to create food for aerial insectivores.

Orange sunset over a darkening marsh, this is Kathy's first station for her annual Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program frog surveys.

A volunteer sits in a canoe with a clipboard in her hand. She is wearing a life jacket and it is pitch black outside. She is participating in the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program.

A Common Nighthawk in flight. It is a brown stripey bird with a very short head and bill. You can see the long "V" shaped wings that have a white stripe about a third of the way down. Photo by Nick Saunders.

A clipboard with data forms on it. The data forms are for the Ontario Nocturnal Owl survey and shows several stops and rows to enter data. There is also a pair of glasses, a compass and a pen.

#WarblersPodcast #BirdsCanada #Birds #speciesatrisk #Nightjars #goatsuckers #Canada #Ontario
So... please share your Nightjar observations? How? I recommend:
In #Ontario please report to the #ONBirdAtlas3 https://www.birdscanada.org/bird-science/breeding-bird-atlases. Elsewhere in #Canada join the Canadian Nightjar survey or report to https://ebird.org/home in Canada and while travelling #Migration.

Two Eastern Whip-poor-wills perched together.

#WarblersPodcast #BirdsCanada #Birds #speciesatrisk #Nightjars #goatsuckers #Canada
Natasha, from Birds Canada: “For all those listening - I would be interested to know who has actually seen or heard an Eastern Whip-poor-will".
Natasha, also notes that “The latest #Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas includes specialized surveys protocol specifically for the Nightjars so that we can get a better idea of their populations.

A technician tracking Eastern Whip-poor-wills

Tracking equipment for Eastern Whip-poor-wills.

Listen to the latest episode of #WarblersPodcast by #BirdsCanada: The Wake-up Call: Eastern Whip-poor-will
#birds #speciesatrisk #Nightjars #goatsuckers #Canada
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1784269/episodes/16134569

An Eastern Whip-poor-will perched on a branch.

#Backroads on #DididahtTerritory.
This is part of the #SanJuanRiver & forests in the valley. The #watershed area is under ongoing #ecological threats by industrial #clearcut #logging. This is near #CarmannahWalbran #BritishColumbia provincial park.
The forests here are longtime foraging, mating & birthing grounds for the #CowichanValley Roosevelt elk herd. The San Juan is an important salmon bearing river. The old growth forests here are home to several #SpeciesAtRisk & #EndangeredSpecies.
There is ongoing eco activism work to try & protect more of the forests & #waterways in this #wilderness valley on Southern #VancouverIsland.