Zack Metcalfe

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About Zack Metcalfe

Zack Metcalfe is a freelance conservation and travel journalist, columnist and author covering stories across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island for multiple publications. His writing career began with the community papers of his Ontario hometown and later led him to western PEI were he served as the sole reporter of the West Prince Graphic. After a brief tenure with Halifax’s environmental movement in 2014 he returned to journalism with his present focus on endangered species, climate change and natural history. You can find more about Zack's work on his website: zackmetcalfe.com

15 Articles

In Sackville, N.B., students demanded climate change solutions, and they got what they asked for

Residents of Sackville, N.B., demanded a voice in their community's climate conversation — and the town listened. Now, a group of concerned citizens and experts is helping to steer the municipality toward a sustainable future.

Sustainable Cities

Funding and red tape take the wind out of St. John's climate plans

Cities in Newfoundland and Labrador face big challenges in finding small-scale climate change solutions for their communities thanks to the province's offshore oil industry and "mega projects" like the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam.

Sustainable Cities

The little Canadian city that became an inadvertent climate leader

Summerside, P.E.I., may be small, but it's made big moves in finding climate change solutions.

Sustainable Cities

A person holding a yellow snaked around their shoulders stands in front of caged animals

The wildlife trade and the next global pandemic

Global wildlife trade a health and moral crisis, even in Canada, experts say

Take two hikes and call me in the morning

Canada’s first large-scale nature prescription program just launched in British Columbia, empowering health-care practitioners to formally prescribe time outdoors for the physical and mental health of patients.

How factory farming could cause the next pandemic

We must dismantle the bomb that is factory farming in all its forms, whether that means returning to small herds and flocks raised outdoors on family farms or moving away from animal products altogether, Zack Metcalfe writes.

This uniquely Canadian species needs protecting

The Nature Conservancy of Canada has compiled a list of 308 species and subspecies found within our borders — and absolutely nowhere else.

How Nova Scotia naturalists forced the province to uphold its Endangered Species Act

The Nova Scotia government just lost a 16-month lawsuit to a flower, moose, turtle, two birds and a tree, which, it goes without saying, has never happened before.

Why 'apocalypse' is the wrong word when describing insect declines

A few years ago, the world was electrified when someone, somewhere, declared an “insect apocalypse,” the ignominious end of all those tiny creatures we depend on daily, pay virtually no notice, and who, all by themselves, make up the vast majority of the animal kingdom. But was the description accurate?

Empty streets during COVID-19 show how we’ve been poisoning ourselves

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a widespread lull in traffic and, along with it, notably cleaner air and lower levels of noise pollution.

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