The Alberta Coalition for Watershed Security is working to restore and protect Alberta’s watersheds through coordinated advocacy, capacity-building, and long-term systems change www.albertawatershedsecurity.ca

EcoWest News highlights: 1) Embedding wildlife corridors in community plans; 2) A national energy grid; 3) Hospitality industry cuts waste; and 4) Burrowing Owl Alliance

Herring Gulls are loud and competitive scavengers. They drop clams and other shellfish on exposed rocks or parking lots in order to break the shells and get at the soft interior www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/herrgu... #NatureCompanion

Strata: Stories from Deep Time, Laura Poppick: “Strata are, in a certain way, love letters left behind by an aging Earth … Reminders that we are the product of a system that has been humming for 4.54 billion years, and that we carry its beginnings in our bones.” laurapoppick.com

"This isn’t nation-building—it’s nation betraying: A betrayal of our children’s future, a betrayal of Indigenous Peoples, and a betrayal of Canadians who overwhelmingly continue to support climate action" #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.wcel.org/media-releas...

The City of Kamloops has embedded mapped wildlife corridors into its Official Community Plan. This will help to ensure that linkages between ecosystems remain intact even as the city grows

People living on the BC’s coast are hosting technology that can detect whales, in hopes of safeguarding the marine mammals that pass through

Climate Action Team Manitoba says the province can meet growing peak energy demand by investing in grid-scale battery energy storage and wind power rather than the proposed fossil gas-fired power plant near Brandon

Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future by Vince Beiser is the 2025 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy winner

PCAP-SK’s Dec. 4 webinar is on North America’s Grassland Birds: Past Declines, Current Challenges, and Future Solutions www.pcap-sk.org/upcoming-eve...

EcoWest News highlights: 1) Beaver-engineered wetlands attract pollinators; 2) Benefits from solar arrays on farmland; 3) Electric fishing boats; and 4) Herbicide ban in northern BC

Studies in the US show similar benefits...win, win, win

Three years of results from farm operations combined with solar arrays in France indicate microclimate control, increased crop yields, animal comfort, and reduced evaporation

Double-crested Cormorants are often seen sitting on a perch with their wings spread out to dry. They have less preen oil than other birds so their feathers get waterlogged www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/doubco... #NatureCompanion

In Tiptoe to Last Lake, Ken Friesen and friends travel more than 2400 km in challenging conditions in a quest to reach all 236 named lakes in Manitoba’s Whiteshell Provincial Park. books.friesenpress.com/store/title/...

The Wild Wise Society spreads awareness and education to reduce human-wildlife conflict in various communities on Vancouver Island www.wildwisesociety.org

EcoWest News highlights: 1) Harvesting trees & herring; 2) Data centres in MB; 3) Energy cooperatives; and 4) MB plants & SK butterflies

A study stresses the importance of considering the cumulative impacts of a proposed ski and recreation development in BC’s Interior, noting it would exceed the carrying capacity of the landscape.

Mallards feed by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants (dabbling). They also eat grasses and grains on land. During breeding season, they eat mainly animal matter www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/mallard/ #NatureCompanion

Do Plants Know Math: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals “will lead you on a journey into the wild world where nature meets numbers. You will discover that your life is surrounded by botanical sequences and spirals, and that they are very beautiful" press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

CPAWS Manitoba’s Nature Club hosts monthly hikes, from snowshoeing and skiing in January and February to Stone Mountain Quarry in October and Whittier Park in December cpawsmb.org/new-year-new...

EcoWest News highlights: 1) Building climate literacy in Manitoba; 2) EVs are mobile energy units; 3) Agricultural wetlands may help protect crops from heatwaves and droughts; and 4) Bees and pollinator meadows

The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Valhalla Wilderness Society, a BC-based wilderness conservation organization, specializing in the creation of parks and protected areas for wildlife and ecosystems www.vws.org

Ring-billed Gulls are the most common inland gull. Nesting colonies normally include a few two-female couples, both of whom lay a clutch of eggs www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/ringgu... #NatureCompanion

Understory: An Ecologist’s Memoir of Love and Hope, Kevin van Tighem: “The long quiet pauses during the evening birdsong chorus weren’t there before; they announce to me that I am a diminished person in a diminished world.” rmbooks.com/products/und...

Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers

Join Calgary Climate Hub/Green Calgary on Nov. 20, 12-1:30 pm, to find out how you can help green your community using nature-based solutions www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/sig_nbs_gree...

EcoWest News highlights: 1) Technology and trees; 2) Orchestras and environmental sustainability; 3) Polar bears feed their neighbours; and 4) Manifestos for bugs

“We don’t always think about cheeseburgers when we think about the climate crisis … we can get meat and dairy off our plates and onto our agendas” – here’s how. westcoastclimateaction.ca/reconsiderin...

The Ontario government’s ads implying mining is already underway in the Ring of Fire is a clever marketing ploy. If people believe the region has already been altered by roads and mines, they’ll be more ready to accept further industrialization

Ontario's Highway 413 and Roberts Bank Terminal 2 in B.C. are among 17 projects on an internal list of priorities for the Carney government, @meyer.bsky.social has learned. Several on the list have already been deemed in the ‘national interest’ for fast-tracking. thenarwhal.ca/carney-major...

California Gulls have a long yellow bill with a black band and a red spot near the tip. The young birds learn how to catch food by dropping a stick in mid-air and swooping down to catch it www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/calgull/ #NatureCompanion

Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash, Alexander Clapp: “How did we get to a world in which a plastic bag placed in a recycling bin in the United Kingdom becomes the bane of a Kurdish farmer three thousand miles away in Turkey?” www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...

Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 could lead to a massive increase in e-waste with up to 240 million old devices ending up in landfills. Right-to-repair laws and open operating systems challenge this type of planned obsolescence. www.futurity.org/end-of-windo...

When polar bears kill their prey, they’re not only feeding themselves. In a single year, one polar bear provides scavengers, from ravens to Arctic foxes, with 300 kg of food.

Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas are hosting two upcoming webinars on Sustainable Human-Animal Interactions (Nov. 3) and The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Resilience (Nov. 20) friendsareas.ca/Webinar.html

Orchestra Canada’s Environmental Sustainability Guide for Canadian Orchestras is designed to help orchestras of all sizes reduce their environmental impact and embrace sustainability as a source of innovation, community engagement, and artistic vitality

Manitoba Environment and Climate Change is inviting public feedback on a revised environmental license request from Sio Silica involving fewer wells and removing less sand in southeast Manitoba.

EcoWest News highlights: 1) SK’s first breeding bird atlas; 2) Restoring wetlands; 3) Sustainable solar farms; and 4) award-winning photographs to make you laugh - and cry ecofriendlywest.ca/ecowest-news...

10 restored wetlands in Illinois, designed to capture nutrient runoff from farms, are permitting researchers to identify best practices for capturing nutrients, evaluate the role of native plants in nutrient capture, and study how wetlands develop over time. insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...

Painted Turtles use horny plates in place of teeth to grasp their food - aquatic plants, insects, small fish or snails, and dead animal matter www.naturecompanion.ca/herps/paintu... #NatureCompanion

A group of young adults from the Syilx Okanagan Nation are restoring salmon habitat. “For the first time in nearly a century, sockeye salmon are freely returning to Okanagan Lake and its tributaries to spawn.”

Saskatchewan’s first breeding bird atlas is now available online. The Atlas is one of the largest volunteer-based initiatives in Saskatchewan’s history and a major new resource for conservation. sk.birdatlas.ca

Bringing Up Beaver, John Aberth: “Why do I rehab beavers? Because you save a beaver, and you save the world – a whole world of wildlife that thrives in a beaver-managed ecosystem unlike any other.” www.simonandschuster.com/authors/John...

Insect hotels for sale at the market in Arles, France

Wildwood EcoForest, Vancouver Island, is home to selective tree harvesting, intact ecosystems, old growth trees & wildlife thediscourse.ca/cowichan-val...

Western Toads walk rather than hop. When threatened, they inflate themselves with air and rise up on their legs www.naturecompanion.ca/herps/westto... #NatureCompanion

It’s informative. It’s funny, and it recognizes human weaknesses. Perhaps it can save the planet: World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis by Jean-Marc Jancovici & Christophe Blain www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814681...

The winning entries in a microphotography competition capture the world beyond the human eye, from algae in a drop of water to pollen in a garden spider web.

A carbon capture plant proposed for MB has yet to settle on a technology or a source of electricity. Experts believe there are more effective ways to reduce GHG emissions