🎉 Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! 🎉 This year's theme underscores how all aspects of human wellbeing are tied to the health of the world’s wetlands. It calls on each of us to value and protect our wetlands. Every wetland matters. Every effort counts. ➡️ worldwetlandsday.org

It has now become clear why Pierre Poilievre’s MPs have spent weeks delaying a bill that addresses predatory pricing and anti-competitive behaviour — because his own deputy leader and campaign manager have a vested interest in keeping grocery prices high. #cdnpol

Environmental Net Gain is an approach to ensure that (re)development leaves the natural environment in a measurably improved state compared to prior conditions. Visit watersheds.ca/pfos-resources/ to learn more and download our free guide!

Canada officially has less biodiversity than one year ago.  Last year the number of species assessed as at risk by COSEWIC grew to 875. Ten years ago, that number was 676. Read more on the blog → loom.ly/PNQ9_O8

Tired of misinformation from Big Oil going unchallenged? Charlie Angus introduced BillC372 to outlaw advertising and promotion by the oil and gas lobby. If France can ban fossil fuel advertising, so can Canada. #cdnpoli ow.ly/hXJb50Qyz0m

How One Health Instrumentalizes Nonhuman Animals journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-on… via AMA Journal of Ethics

Unclear about ecological restoration vs rewilding? We trace the different histories of the 2 approaches, & report definitions & concepts (rather than develop yet more definitions) Discussing their combination to achieve the common goal of nature recovery onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Centre Ecol & Evol British Ecological Society CSEE_SCEE Ecological Society ESEB @GfoeSoc Behavioral Ecology SSE Yale EEB University of Exeter CEC Join us 19 Feb at 10am (UK) for the #ProcB article seminar, Dynamic evolution of locomotor performance independent of changes in extended phenotype use in spiders: author Jonas Wolff Macquarie University & chair Karl Bates University of Liverpool Library #evolution #spiders cassyni.com/events/G9RYm6e…

Bats are known for using sound to echolocate prey and navigate around objects, but now silver-haired bats have been identified as the second species in North America to be documented as singing in a study led by WCS Canada's Cori Lausen. Read here → loom.ly/5t1FY1c

kudos to colleagues for beating drum on this one! cbc.ca/news/climate/c… NRDC 🌎🏡 Nature Canada The world is relying on nature to absorb 50% of carbon emissions if we are to secure a safe climate. can’t achieve that if we degrade the very ecosystems we are relying on to save us

Scientists often lament poor public understanding of science—but the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer identifies the real gap. "Science has a communications problem that can be improved with better messaging, more transparency & an explanation of its impact on regular people."

For those promoting highway expansion in Ontario, the endangered redside dace is a most inconvenient species. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-endang…

Will we know if we have "bent the curve" of biodiversity loss? Our paper tackling this question is out today in Science Advances “Global monitoring for #biodiversity: uncertainty, risk and power analyses to support trend change detection” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

In this article, Schmidt et al share that #GeneticDiversity does not predict species #redlist status; thus, improved metrics are needed for accurate #conservation of genetic diversity.🟥🐾🌿 doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1… #science #wordoftheweek #IUCN

“museums and the scientific community can’t really afford to not be activists any more” theguardian.com/culture/2024/m…

“Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns” So why aren’t we doing so? There is something seriously wrong with how we are framing biodiversity loss as economic loss if this argument is not triggering sufficient action pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…