habitat loss

Sparrows were taken into captivity after numbers dwindled – and this week experts released 1,000th bird back into wild

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About 44 per cent of migratory species worldwide are declining in population, the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by the UN are threatened with extinction.

Looking at biodiversity over the past few years, one trend stands out: the decline and extinction of wild species.

Scientists are increasingly seeing evidence of “dark extinction” in museum and botanical garden collections.

More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday.

The monarch butterfly is just the latest to be added to a growing group of wild species found in Canada that are at risk of disappearing forever. 

The migrating monarch butterfly was added last week to the “red list” of threatened species and categorized as “endangered” for the first time by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

“It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. “This is one of the most recognizable butterflies in the world.”

Vegetated areas above the treeline have increased by 77 per cent since 1984, satellite data shows.

New research shows that roads and runways quieted by COVID-19 are filling with birdsong instead.

Research measuring the effort of climate change on bees suggests they are only half as likely to be found in areas where they were once common.

As the world warms, scientists say that abrupt shifts in weather patterns — droughts followed by severe floods, or sudden and unseasonable fluctuations in temperature — are intensifying, adding yet another climate-related threat that is already affecting humans and natural world.

A Quebec government plan to kill wolves that get too close to an endangered woodland caribou herd is raising concern among environmentalists, who accuse the government of sidestepping the true problem of habitat loss.

While most homeowners are raking autumn leaves, Mike Perozak is helping his neighbours in downtown Toronto prepare their gardens to welcome guests in the spring.