Subject: RE: Ontario Receives Failing Grade in Conservation Conservation policy usually focuses on preserving the young or endangered, but fails exceptional animals like centenarians, those remarkable individuals old even for their own species. Greenland sharks can live 400 years, lobsters over 100, and ocean quahogs 500. Protecting centenarians is crucial. If an animal is found […]
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Fall 2022
38 | Last Word Piping Plovers Prevail By Lisa Richardson 34 | Our Member Groups Naturalists Expand a Reserve. By Lisa Richardson 36 | Our Community Environmental Champions Recognized. By Zachary Pothier ON Nature magazine is an award-winning quarterly that brings readers closer to nature by exploring Ontario’s natural species and spaces, and providing insight […]
Butcher of the Alvar
Re: “Butcher of the Alvar“. I like how it reveals the vulnerability of all species by highlighting the personality and decline of one of Canada’s most ferocious songbirds, the eastern loggerhead shrike. If a carnivorous avian warrior who sings while impaling its prey on thorns can become endangered, then we should be concerned about the […]