Today is pub day for my new book, Signs of Life! It dives into elaborate & expensive things we're doing to try to save endangered species at the 11th hour - hatching spotted owls in a lab, flying wood bison sperm on Air Canada - and looks at how to turn things around for wildlife & biodiversity.

B.C.'s election year budget has money to fight wildfires – but nothing new for old-growth forests, wildlife, biodiversity or creating protected areas. Here's my story for @thenarwhalca.bsky.socialthenarwhal.ca/bc-budget-20...

What’s in the 2024 B.C. budget — and what’s missing | The Narwhal

The 2024 B.C. budget has money for climate rebates and fighting wildfires, but lacks new funding to protect old-growth forests and biodiversity

BC's new housing legislation threatens urban forests, biodiversity & the endangered Garry Oak ecosystem. And it makes no provisions for affordable housing. My story today for @thenarwhalca.bsky.socialthenarwhal.ca/bc-ndp-bill-...

B.C. Bill 44 could trigger ‘catastrophic loss’ of urban forests | The Narwhal

B.C.’s NDP government targets housing crisis with controversial Bill 44; critics say it removes autonomy, threatens urban forests

What's a biologist to do when the old-growth trees are gone and a tiny endangered bat needs places to roost? My latest story for @thenarwhalca.bsky.socialthenarwhal.ca/endangered-b...

Can fake old-growth trees save endangered bats? | The Narwhal

As logging destroys B.C.’s inland temperate rainforests, biologists get creative to protect the northern myotis bat’s vanishing habitat

I've got a new book coming out! It's called Signs of Life: Field Notes from the Frontlines of Extinction Writing this book changed how I see things. I hope you will pre-order it. You can read about it here. gooselane.com/products/sig...

Signs of Life

AboutWhat’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou, cormorants kill rare trees, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Enviro...

I followed an old-growth detective to verify BC's claims about the age of trees slated for clearcutting. The trees are in the inland temperate rainforest, a globally imperilled ecosystem with great biodiversity - and in critical habitat for an endangered caribou herd. thenarwhal.ca/bc-rainfores...

Fact-checking B.C.’s suspicious claims about the age of trees | The Narwhal

Conservationist Eddie Petryshen took to the woods to see whether or not ancient B.C. trees were being clearcut — and The Narwhal tagged along

My latest story for The Narwhal looks at a new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area - 'from mountaintop to seafloor' - on BC's mid-coast, in an area where First Nations hope to bring back salmon runs, protect village & cultural sites and safeguard biodiversity. thenarwhal.ca/bc-broughton...

New ‘mountaintop to seafloor’ Indigenous protected area in B.C. | The Narwhal

Facing biodiversity loss, Ḵwiḵwa̱sut'inux̱w Ha̱xwa’mis First Nation Chief says protected area will reclaim land once teeming with salmon and old growth

BC Hydro plans to tranquilize hibernating bears and move them to plywood and straw bale artificial dens before it floods the Peace River Valley this fall for the Site C dam. Here's my story today for The Narwhal. thenarwhal.ca?p=92983

BC Hydro rushes to move hibernating bears in Site C dam flood zone | The Narwhal

BC Hydro is rushing to move bears out of the Site C dam flood zone into artificial dens so they don’t drown

Check out this great BC Libraries on-line event tonight with Fire Weather author John Vaillant and The Narwhal's very own @fatimabsyed.bsky.socialvpl.bibliocommons.com/events/650a2...

BC Libraries Present — John Vaillant: Our New Fire Weather

Fire has changed communities across BC this year. After the most devastating wildfire season in recorded history, many are wondering how these fires got so big, what we can learn from our current resp...

BC has taken a major step towards protecting old-growth forests and biodiversity — with new $300 million fund for Indigenous conservation. More money sure to follow. I wrote about it for @thenarwhalca.blsky.social thenarwhal.ca/bc-old-growt...

B.C. announces $300M Indigenous conservation fund to protect old-growth | The Narwhal

The new funding is welcomed by conservation groups who say the province has continued to allow clearcut logging in rare ecosystems