Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Nature Trust of B.C./Graham Osborne January 27, 2021 - 5:30 AM The Nature Trust of British Columbia is working to protect grassland near Princeton with the recent purchase of hundreds of hectares. The non-profit land conservation group is working to buy up to 1,052 hectares of land known as the Princeton Grasslands-MapleCross Meadow in three phases, according to a Nature Trust of BC media release. Phase one and two are now complete with 868 hectares acquired with 189 left to go. The property is home to important habitat for the Williamson’s sapsucker, a small woodpecker that is estimated to number less than 500 adult birds in Canada. The Princeton Grasslands are also habitat for barn swallows and olive-sided flycatchers, both threatened species, and the western screech owl. It is also adjacent to provincial winter range for mule deer.
Dan Kraus is a senior conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada / Submitted
The following column was submitted to PrinceGeorgeMatters from Dan Kraus, senior conservation biologist with the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature.
Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species.
There was a buzz about the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Congress. The World Economic Forum had made a call to stop the loss of biodiversity.
And then, everything changed.
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Dan Kraus says despite one of the most monumental crises of our generation, nature conservation has continued, and moved us closer to a more sustainable world for people and for nature.
A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature. Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species.
There was a buzz about the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Congress. The World Economic Forum had made a call to stop the loss of biodiversity.
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Trail cameras are helping reveal American marten behaviors to help inform restoration efforts.. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) continues to make strides supporting endangered species in 2020. This includes helping threatened turtles, aiding promising field trials for vaccines to save bats from white-nose syndrome and restoring a globally rare bedrock glade in the Baraboo Hills. Reports of endangered bumble bee sightings in 2020 reached record numbers, matching an upward trend of people turning to nature.
These are just a few highlights of the progress made for endangered species and State Natural Areas in 2020 shared in the 2020 Natural Heritage Conservation (NHC) Program Field Notes, which is now available online and in the 2020 Winter issue of the