Insights and Stories on Wildlife

Manitoba trials address livestock predation in farmyards

Oct. 25, 2024 at 9:38 am CDT

Manitoba’s Livestock Predation Prevention pilot continued its 2020-23 assessment of various predation risk mitigation practices focused on cattle and sheep populations in and around farmyards. More than 100 total trials were completed on 48 farms during the three-year project with approximately 75 per cent of the costs covered by the project. Predator-resistant penning […]

Counteracting livestock predation risks on pasture

Sep. 20, 2024 at 10:26 am CDT

By Bruce Derksen

Deer and elk take a bite out of winter feed

Nov. 24, 2023 at 10:21 am CST

By Jill Burkhardt

File photo of moose in a Saskatchewan field.

Saskatchewan expands wildlife testing to include bovine TB

Oct. 11, 2023 at 10:37 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses

Jun. 28, 2023 at 1:01 pm CDT

By Natalie Grover

Saskatchewan to top up some claims for wildlife-damaged forage

May. 17, 2023 at 8:18 pm CDT

Producers in southwestern and west-central Saskatchewan who lost stacked forage to wildlife feeding last winter may see a bump up in their compensation. The Saskatchewan and federal governments on Wednesday announced a “supplemental freight adjustment” to their wildlife damage compensation program, administered by Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. (SCIC). SCIC, the […]

By Dave Bedard

French court bans sale of two Touchdown glyphosates

May. 16, 2023 at 1:01 pm CDT

Paris | Reuters — A French court has banned the sale of two glyphosate-based herbicides produced by Swiss chemical group Syngenta because of a lack of analysis on the chemical’s potential harm to some wildlife. “The decision on Sept. 30, 2020 by French health security agency ANSES to renew the […]

By Reuters

U.S. avian flu outbreak of 2022 wipes out record number of birds

Nov. 24, 2022 at 5:31 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Avian flu has wiped out 50.54 million birds in the United States this year, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak in history, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed Thursday. The deaths of chickens, turkeys and other birds represent the worst U.S. animal-health disaster to date, topping […]

By Tom Polansek

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Jul. 12, 2022 at 1:52 am CDT

Reuters — What is the value of a river? Is it for the nutritional content of the fish it sustains? The economic benefit of the local livelihoods it supports? Or does the river have its own value which humans cannot measure? Such questions may seem removed from the issues the […]

By Mark John

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

Jun. 8, 2022 at 5:10 am CDT

Residents of Canada’s northern territories who harvest migratory wild birds and their eggs this spring are urged to take precautions as highly pathogenic avian influenza makes its way northward. The Yukon government’s animal health unit on May 27 reported confirmed cases of high-path H5N1 avian flu in two wild waterfowl […]

By Dave Bedard

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Insights and Stories on Wildlife

Manitoba trials address livestock predation in farmyards

Counteracting livestock predation risks on pasture

Deer and elk take a bite out of winter feed

Saskatchewan expands wildlife testing to include bovine TB

Scientists isolate human gene able to fend off most bird flu viruses

Saskatchewan to top up some claims for wildlife-damaged forage

French court bans sale of two Touchdown glyphosates

U.S. avian flu outbreak of 2022 wipes out record number of birds

Market value alone is selling nature short, governments told

Northern egg harvesters cautioned over avian flu

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