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Five ways to become a swallow steward this season

Barn swallow in the rain
July 3, 2025

While our avian friends have some pretty impressive qualities in common – forget flying, try building a nest sturdy enough to hold tiny hatchlings without using your hands! – birds belonging to the group of aerial insectivores are particularly impressive. Birds like swallows, swifts, martins, and nighthawks have a diet that consists almost entirely of …

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Six ways to be a responsible wildlife tourist

Visitors taking selfies with an elephant in a zoo
July 2, 2025

Is it bad to ride elephants in Thailand? Swim with the dolphins? Buy a shell necklace? Take photos with tigers? Drink civet cat coffee? Or generally attempt to get close to wildlife for a close-up view or photo? Experiences with wild, exotic or endangered animals seem exciting, but travellers can harm animals without even knowing …

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Keeping the coast clear

Sea turtle swimming with plastic bag in mouth
June 6, 2025

World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on June 8 to spread awareness about risks to aquatic environments and how you can prevent them. World Ocean Day commemorates and acknowledges all that the ocean provides us with. The ocean, which covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface, produces at least 50 percent of the planet’s …

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Celebrate World Otter Day May 28 with these ‘otterly’ awesome otter facts

River otter eating crab legs on rock
May 26, 2025

British Columbia is home to two species of otters – river otters and sea otters. Sea otters spend their lives in the ocean. They mate, sleep, groom, hunt, and give birth in the water. River otters are often confused for sea otters when they’re spotted in or near the ocean, but river otters are also …

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Bee kind: Plant a bee-friendly garden for Earth Day

April 16, 2025

Looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day? Why not plant bee-friendly plants and flowers in your backyard and flower boxes? Your garden will flourish, and you’ll be helping to combat a growing global concern – diminishing bee colonies. Bees are responsible for pollinating 30 per cent of the world’s crops and 90 per cent …

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Help! Crows are attacking me!

Portrait of a crow up close, looking into the camera
April 8, 2025

Have you ever been swooped or dive-bombed by a crow? Although it is intimidating, crows aren’t attacking you, they’re just being protective parents. Rather than “attacking”, this behaviour is simply a warning to stay away from their young. They will swoop down from trees, fly close and may even brush against you. The first time …

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