Media coverage
Yukon wetlands being studied to see how they effect climate change
WCS Canada Research Associate Caitlyn Lyons joins CBC to talk melting permafrost, greenhouse gasses, a new method for measuring methane missions and the need to understand wetland CO2 emissions in the Yukon.
2025-09-04 | CBC Radio
Canada’s 2025 wildfire season a wake-up call—more populated areas are under threat
A recent peer-reviewed study found forest degradation in northeastern Ontario far exceeds what would occur naturally.
2025-08-18 | Penticton Herald
Photo contest aimed at protecting Canada’s natural beauty open for submissions
This year marks the third annual Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Canada Photo Contest, which aims to share the importance of Canada’s natural beauty, and the urgency to protect it.
2025-08-14 | Victoria Buzz
Fossil-fuelled heat has caused tropical birds to decline by ‘up to 38%’ since 1950s
Dr Peter Soroye, said “It’s not just that the climate is getting gradually warmer every year with climate change, it’s that climate change is also driving increasingly frequent and severe extreme temperature events that are putting wildlife at risk."
2025-08-11 | CarbonBrief
Abandonment, bankruptcy, and environmental disaster, the Yukon deserves better
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada biologist Chris Addison highlights negative pattern of Yukon mine failures.
2025-08-08 | Yukon News
Integrating environmental considerations is key to Carney’s seven priorities
Housing, economic growth, national security and immigration may seem separate from climate change or biodiversity loss. But that idea is both artificial and costly.
2025-08-07 | Policy Options
As deadly fungus spreads, Alberta turns to probiotics to save dwindling bat population
A treatment for white nose syndrome has been in the works for years by scientists at Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, McMaster University and Thompson Rivers University.
2025-08-06 | CBC
Ontario’s forest management is falling short on key sustainability test
Substantial changes to forest management in Ontario are required to reverse forest degradation and safeguard the ecosystem services on which people and wildlife depend, write Justina Ray and Jay R. Malcolm in The Conversation.
2025-07-29 | The Conversation
Logging in Ontario’s boreal forest is ‘far in excess of what’s sustainable,’ study finds
Clear cutting in northeastern Ontario is depleting the forest, leaving just over 20 per cent of century-old trees standing and 12 per cent of caribou habitat intact.
2025-07-17 | The Narwhal
Manitoba researchers look at potential impact of wildfires on polar bear denning habitat
Justina Ray, President and Senior Scientist with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, outlines the impacts of higher intensity wildfires across the country on other northern wildlife, including caribou.
2025-07-14 | Global News
Doug Ford is threatening environmental stewardship, democratic norms, and Indigenous rights
In just over a month, Doug Ford’s Conservative government has rammed through perhaps its most serious attack on environmental stewardship, democratic norms and Indigenous rights.
2025-06-18 | Canada's National Observer
Up the creek without a paddle: protecting Canada's freshwater
Freshwater ecosystems sustain an extraordinary diversity of life, including 10% of all known species on Earth. Their health is inseparable from our own. The choices we make now will determine whether they remain a source of life, or conflict, in the years to come.
2025-06-17 | Canada's National Observer
Inaugural Fellows Selected for Groundbreaking Opportunity for First Nations Women Leaders in Conservation and Stewardship
The inaugural recipients of the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellowship will be announced today at the First Nations National Guardians Gathering in Victoria, BC.
2025-06-12 | NationTalk
Awards Recognize Emerging Guardians, Trailblazers, and Allies at First Nations National Guardians Gathering
WCS Canada honoured with the Indigenous Guardian Ally Award at the First Nations National Guardians Gathering 2025 in Victoria.
2025-06-11 | NationTalk
Framing the wild: images of Canada’s globally vital ecosystems
Photographs from across the country reveal why Key Biodiversity Areas are critical to the planet’s future
2025-06-04 | Canadian Geographic
