The warming weather can bring with it the appearance of some less-than-desirable species, including invasive species. Spring is an excellent time to survey your yards and local parks for potential invasive species.

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Each week, countless inspiring and informative stories are published about conservation successes or discoveries in nature and wildlife around the world. Here are some of the conservation and nature stories that caught our attention the week of May 11, 2020:

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Every nation has a unique role in saving our planet’s endangered species. As Canadians, it’s important that we know about the plight and prospects of wildlife from around the world. But it is most critical that Canadians know about the fellow species that share our lands and waters.

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In Mark Stabb's early years as an budding biologist, he watched loons in the heart of the city of Toronto. Loons can and do migrate at great heights, but at dawn along the lakeshore they are just gaining altitude.

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The Canadian range of the greater short-horned lizard is limited to southern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Greater short-horned lizards have always had a restricted range in Canada, preferring dry open sites with little vegetation and loose soils.

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Learn how to identify lesser scaup from greater scaup.

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A poem about the return of bluebirds in Alberta. Poem by Norm Elford ©, as recited by Leta Pezderic.

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Each week, countless inspiring and informative stories are published about conservation successes or discoveries in nature and wildlife around the world. Here are some of the conservation and nature stories that caught our attention the week of May 4, 2020:

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There is perhaps no other bird that has endeared itself into our popular culture as the bluebird. It’s the helpful feathered friend in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.

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On the last weekend in April, I joined the City Nature Challenge 2020, an international effort to document nature in cities around the world, by taking pictures of plants and animals in my neighbourhood in Halifax.

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