These posts are related to wildlife and habitat conservation
Jon Mooallem is the author of Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuraing Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. It was one of my favourite books of 2014. But it also shines when done live with a little musical accompaniment…
Tavish Campbell and Pacific Wild give us a breathtaking view of the colourful life under the surface of the Great Bear Sea.
In this video National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore makes a case for using images to get people to care for endangered species.
Photo: Cheetah by Joel Sartore
Over the last two decades Bruce Kirby has paddled and hiked in some of the Earth’s most remote places. He has also guided hundreds of people on wilderness trips and written two national bestselling books about his adventures. His breathtaking wilderness images have been published widely and he is a regular columnist with the Globe and Mail.
This Canada Day he invited our Prime Minister to join him for a three day wilderness camping trip…
Last fall staff and supporters of the World Wildlife Fund traveled to British Columbia to explore the central coast aboard the Island Roamer, and I was fortunate enough to be their guide.
With the Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal looming over the coast, it is an important time to draw attention to this unique and spectacular place. WWF tries to do just that in this video, referring to this region as the Great Bear Sea…
Since the Queen of the North sank on the central coast of BC in March of 2006 people have been nervous. The ship’s massive hulk is now 1500 feet underwater, still leaking diesel into coastal waters. With that tragedy fresh in people’s mind, the looming threat of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project has people on edge…
Paul Nicklin shows off some of his impressive body of work, the unique challenges he faces and why he is obsessed by telling stories from the poles. Watch his TED talk…
One reason I have not been posting much on this blog lately is that I’ve had sporadic internet access while working in the field doing bird and amphibian surveys.
It has been a while since I’ve done some good old fashioned biology fieldwork and it is darn nice to be spending my days outdoors, away from my keyboard. Even nicer on evenings when I get sit on a beach and eat dinner while the sun sets over Lake Huron…
Check out this comic portrayal of a classic population ecology study. It brings me back to my first year ecology classes.
Seafood. The very thought of it twists my gut into a knot of conflict. My recollection of eating an exquisite teriyaki Chinook salmon on a sailboat in British Columbia, collides with my knowledge that we…
Whether you’re a foreign aid or nature conservation organization, the stories you tell are critical in creating the social change you want. Marketers are the masters of this, and in a 2009 article in Outside…
Paul Nicklen is a hard working photographer for National Geographic. I met him last fall while he was working on a Spirit Bear photo project on the BC coast. He told me that his work…
On the last page of the October 2010 issue of Canadian Geographic, Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk shares some insights from his 187 days spent as a resident of the International Space Station(ISS). Thirsk muses eloquently…
I saw a wolverine once. Once. I will count myself lucky if I see another one. Ever. I also had the pleasure of meeting Doug Chadwick a couple times. And I will count myself lucky if…
I like coffee. And I blame Sherwin for it. Before I moved to Victoria I had no idea what an Americano was, not to mention the other fancy things on coffee shop menus. Sherwin introduced me to…
