Featured research
Featured research stories are from Land Lines, the Nature Conservancy of Canada blog.
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Don’t forget to brake for snakes
Stephanie Winston and her colleagues at BC’s Thompson Rivers University and Environment and Climate Change Canada have been studying roadkill...Read more »
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Small but mighty — Migrating green darner dragonflies
Led by Prof. Ryan Norris, Grace Pitman and Sam Knight investigate common green darner dragonfly migration across southern Ontario.Read more »
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Weston Family Conservation Science Fellowship Program
Learn about the Weston Family Conservation Science Fellowship Program and Nature Conservancy of Canada's priority research topics.Read more »
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Hummingbirds: The forgotten pollinator when it comes to pesticides
From early April through May, rufous hummingbirds arrive in the Fraser Valley, BC, where they briefly court, nest and raise their young before...Read more »
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Native grassland is important habitat for grassland birds
Saying that native grassland is important habitat for grassland birds seems quite obvious. So what are native grasslands, and what makes them...Read more »
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Antlers of the East: Tracking the decline of the Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou (part two)
Learn more about the decline of the Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou in part two of Antlers of the East.Read more »
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Antlers of the East: Tracking the decline of the Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou (part one)
Learn about the decline of the Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou subpopulation.Read more »
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Carbon and wetlands: So what's the big deal?
Wetlands can support a lot of plants and vegetation that take up carbon from the atmosphere. What's unique about wetlands is that they enable...Read more »