From scientists in the field to community members protecting local habitats - people are at the heart of conservation 💪🌱 1/2 #KBACanada #PhotoContest #conservationphotography

🎙️ Living Prairie Museum in the spotlight! Peter Soroye, our KBA Assessment & Outreach Coordinator, joined CBC Radio to talk about the new KBA designation in Manitoba & why this urban tallgrass prairie is crucial for biodiversity 🦋

Nothing beats that moment when a view stops you in your tracks 🌄 Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas hold some of the most stunning landscapes and unique ecosystems on the planet - and we want to see them through your eyes! 1/2

With five projects now designated for review by the new Major Projects Office, and hundreds more waiting in the wings, a truly strategic approach requires looking beyond project-by-project decisions (1/3)

A big step for conservation in the Yukon! The proposed new National Park along the Teetl’it Gwinjik (Peel River) highlights the vision of the Peel Watershed Planning Commission and the voice of Peter Kaye, the Teetl’it Gwich’in representative who helped guide it.

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Protecting biodiversity isn’t an either/or. Big-picture ecosystem management is essential, but species-specific protections still matter! 🌎🧵

🍄 🙋 Hands up if you're like us - stopping to snap a pic of every cool mushroom you see on your walks! #PhotoContest 🧵

One year ago, 11 Moose Cree youth paddled 200km down the Lower Mattagami River, guided by Elders, Knowledge Holders, scientists, and community mentors 🌎🧵

From foxes to frogs, every species matters 🦊🐸 #NationalWildlifeDay Show us your best wildlife photography in the Fauna category of the KBA Canada Photo Contest! 📸  Submit here: https://f.mtr.cool/qvdifalqzo

What makes for a winning image in the KBA Photo Contest? It’s no mystery – here are the four things our judges are looking for! 🧵👀

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Enter Canada's 3rd Key Biodiversity Areas 2025 Photo Contest! 📸Photographers of all skill levels are invited. For details on criteria, submission rules, prizes, and more 👉https://kbacanada.org/2025/08/13/KBAphotocontest2025/. @wcscanada.org

Eagle Gold Mine’s toxic legacy continues to pollute Yukon waters 🧪 This is just one in a pattern of failures marked by weak oversight and abandoned projects. The Yukon deserves more than piecemeal fixes. It needs a public inquiry into systemic failures to protect land, water & communities 🧵

📸 Meet our special guest judge! #KBAPhotoContest We’re thrilled to welcome Shane Gross, Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024, as a guest judge for the 3rd annual KBA Canada Photo Contest! #NaturePhotography 🌎

The 2025 KBA Photo Contest is back! Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas are home to some of the most awe-inspiring species, ecosystems, and landscapes - and we want to see them through your lens 📸🧵  #2025KBAPhotoContest #KeyBiodiversityAreas

We can’t talk housing, security, or economic growth without talking about nature and climate 🌎 Justina Ray breaks it down: real nation-building means planning with the environment from the start, not as an afterthought. Read the full article ⬇️ This shift in mindset is long overdue #NatureMatters

The probiotic treatment giving Alberta’s bats a fighting chance 🧪🦇 White-nose syndrome has devastated bat colonies across North America. For the 1st time in Alberta, the treatment tested by our team in B.C. is being used to stop the spread. Find out more from CBC - link below 👇 📸 Jason Headley

New research co-authored by WCS Canada reveals that Ontario’s forest management strategy, which claims to mimic natural disturbances like wildfire, is falling short 🌲🧪

🌓 Inside the Burns: Enter the Common Nighthawk - the most unbothered nester in the boreal.   This long-distance migrant flies up from South America to lay its eggs directly on the burned forest floor. No nest, no problem ✅🧵

"What do bats smell like?" 🦇 That was the question we received from a young supporter who donated her birthday money to bat conservation (how amazing is that?!) 🧵👇 📸 Jason Headley

It's #WorldSnakeDay and we're shining a spotlight on the Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba, a Key Biodiversity Area! Even if you're not the biggest fan of snakes, you’ve still got to admit, 40,000+ garter snakes gathering in one place every spring is pretty cool! @wcs.org 🐍🧪

The intensity of widespread wildfires across Canada is impacting wildlife like caribou, Justina Ray of @wcscanada.org tells @globalnews.ca. “Caribou are a species that need older forests or larger expanses of older forests, particularly to calve in.” 🌎 globalnews.ca/news/1128818...

🦉 Inside the Burns: A surprise owl encounter!   In July 2024, our Birds & Burns team came across a Great Horned Owl family nesting in a recently burned patch of Boreal forest. A rare and special sight - and yes, we’ve got photos!

🌎 Want to support nature? It starts with awareness. Sign up for the WCS Canada newsletter and get trusted updates on conservation science, wildlife protection, and how you can help. 📬 Subscribe here: https://wcscanada.org/newsroom/newsletter/ 📸 Susan C. Morse

This 5-minute video is balm for my environmental soul. youtu.be/VOtuiB6aiLE?... Bats are gorgeous, misunderstood, and in danger. Folks at @wcscanada.org @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social are trying to help -- and it just might work... (Also a fab example of effective storytelling!)

Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social). Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org #CSEE2025

Indigenous women have always been caretakers of land, language & life. At the 2025 First Nations National Guardians Gathering, it was evident that matriarchs are leading across the country. 🌿 Find out more: 

Carrion moss thrives in damp, shady spots and loves to grow on… well, dead stuff. It gets cozy on decaying organic matter like rotting logs and fallen leaves 🍂 Is it a little morbid? Maybe. But it's also part of nature’s clean-up crew, quietly helping to drive decomposition and soil renewal✨

A report earlier this year from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) indicated that 18% of freshwater animals are now at risk of extinction 🧪👇

Bringing Indigenous knowledge & Western science together, without forcing one to fit the other. This powerful piece by @cmantykap.bsky.social, Natasha Ayoub & Katie Fraser, spotlights our collab with Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation to centre Indigenous leadership & values in land use planning 🔗👇

🐣 Inside the Burns: It’s not just cavity nesters calling the burned boreal home. Our Birds & Burns team has also found a variety of ground and tree nesters using this post-fire landscape in the Yukon.

"This is not just about conservation. It's about the connection that we have with land, water, animals and one another. We are all equal." WCS Canada Indigenous Relations Associate Cheyenne MacDonald shares the Mi'kmaq concept of netukulimk & how it should inform species protection #NIHM2025 🌎

It was a privilege to meet our First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellows alongside our partners the Indigenous Leadership Initiative (who also provided the footage 🙏) 🎥 This National Indigenous Peoples Day, get to know the Fellows and join us in celebrating their leadership and vision

Federal Bill C-5, which would allow "national interest" projects to bypass key Canadian laws inc... 💠 The Species at Risk Act 💠The Impact Assessment Act 💠The Fisheries Act ....is expected to be fast-tracked today 🌎🧵(1/3)

A 60-year review co-authored by WCS Canada's Don Reid shows how small mammals play key roles in ecosystems & why smarter research is crucial to protect them 🐭🧪 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/hvqrjgktyv

Today we're delighted to be in Victoria to bring together our inaugural First Nations Women Transforming Conservation Fellows, Mary-Jo Michell and Talyor Galvin, and the Aunties Circle.

"You don’t just wake up and decide you’re a leader. Leadership is not a title given to one’s self, but awarded by others through the actions and responsibilities you have taken."

This #WorldOceanDay, we’re celebrating the ocean and the people who make our work in it possible, namely the Inuvialuit communities of the Western Arctic, including the Olokhaktomiut Hunters & Trappers Committee (OHTC) in Ulukhaktok 🌊 🧵

During #NationalIndigenousHistoryMonth, ‪@cangeo.bsky.social spotlights how our science supports Indigenous-led efforts to protect the Hudson Bay Lowland - a globally-important carbon store & critical region for many species on land & sea. Read all about it below 👇🌎

Today is World Environment Day - a time to come together around shared solutions to the global biodiversity crisis. Instead, Ontario has chosen this moment to pass Bill 5 🌎🧵(1/4) 📸 Susan C. Morse

Anyone for Conservation Cup Pong? 🌱🥤 Ella, Meadow and Emily, three awesome high school students from Warmen High School in Saskatchewan, interviewed our very own @cmantykap.bsky.social for their Outdoor Education course and were kind enough to share their project with us!

A powerful photo essay with stunning imagery of of Canada's most important places for biodiversity? Yes please 💚 Thanks to @cangeo.bsky.social and all the photographers for helping highlight the importance of Key Biodiversity Areas 🌎🧵

Purple False Foxglove may be pretty, but it’s sneaky - it steals nutrients from nearby plants 🌸👀 None the less, this hemiparasite plays a vital role in Eastern Canada’s wild ecosystems. Protecting its habitat is key to keeping it around 💫

Ontario’s Bill 5 would create “special economic zones” where key laws wouldn’t apply. The Ring of Fire could be one of them.  This area holds some of the world’s remaining high-integrity peatlands that store carbon, filter water, and support biodiversity #WorldPeatlandsDay 🧵

June 1st marks the beginning of National Indigenous History Month - a time to reflect on, celebrate, and learn from the deep, enduring relationships Indigenous Peoples hold with the lands, waters, and wildlife they continue to steward 🧵

🌎 Inside the Burns: Who else is using cavities in the burned boreal? 🔥 Our Birds & Burns team has documented more than just woodpeckers!

Say hello to North America's smallest & cutest wild canid, the Swift Fox 🦊 While this fox disappeared from Canada by the 1930s, it's back in parts of Alberta & Saskatchewan thanks to conservation efforts. Though with grasslands disappearing fast, we’re not out of the woods (or the prairie) yet 🌾🧵

🌿 Ojibway Prairie is now a KBA!   This designation reflects the ecological importance of the tall-grass prairies, oak savannahs & wetlands that make up this unique landscape in Windsor-LaSalle, and was proposed in collaboration with Wildlife Preservation Canada, Caldwell First Nation & WCS Canada 🧵

Once native to southern British Columbia, the Western Pond Turtle has vanished from Canada 💔 These turtles have olive-brown shells with yellowish markings, grow up to about 25 cm long, and love to bask in sunny, shallow ponds and wetlands 🐢🧵 📸 Rayyan Ibrahim