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About Dan Kraus

Dan Kraus is the director of national conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada). He supports and manages WCS Canada’s portfolio of national initiatives including key biodiversity areas, One Health, biodiversity policy and natural climate solutions. Prior to WCS Canada, Kraus worked for the Nature Conservancy of Canada for more than 18 years. He has authored reports on topics ranging from Great Lakes islands to freshwater key biodiversity areas to natural capital. Most recently he led an initiative to develop Canada’s first list of nationally endemic wildlife and published papers on Canada’s “crisis” ecoregions and approaches to endangered species recovery. Kraus is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group and the Committee on Species at Risk in Ontario. He often writes about nature and conservation and his editorials, articles and interviews have appeared in media across Canada. Dan also teaches about wildlife extinction and recovery at the University of Waterloo. He lives with his family at the headwaters of Bronte Creek in the Lake Ontario watershed where he enjoys chopping wood and raising happy chickens.

5 Articles

We need to protect endangered ecosystems to protect endangered species

The outcome of the global gathering in Montreal may be our last best hope for nature, writes Dan Kraus.
Negotiating survival
Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting | December 5th 2022

More species are at risk than ever in Canada. Who will save them?

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. 
Opinion | August 10th 2022

Edge of extinction: 10 Canadian species to know — and save

Canada has hundreds of endangered species at risk of disappearing from our country and from our planet.
Opinion | May 26th 2022

Ecological distancing and why knowing nature matters

The pandemic has given many of us a chance to make stronger connections with the natural world.
Opinion | May 6th 2022

Let's come out of COVID-19 with a new relationship for nature and people

At the root of the current crisis, and fundamental to the solution, is our relationships with the other species that share our planet.
Coronavirus in Canada
Opinion | April 27th 2020

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