On December 2 -13, 2019, leaders from almost 200 countries gathered in Madrid, Spain at the 2019 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP 25) to address the next crucial steps in the UN climate change...
By Stephanie Pawluk and Bronwyn Wydeman On the second week of October, we had the incredible opportunity of attending the Canadian Parks Conference in Quebec City. The theme of the conference was ‘Parks for...
Learn more about Canada’s mountain systems through this new infographic to get ready for International Mountain Day (IMD)! Visit the IMD section of our website to learn more, and to organize and participate in...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released their Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) highlighting the urgency to act in a timely, ambitious and coordinated action...
Mountains make up one-quarter of Canada’s land-mass and are home to unique ecosystems and iconic wildlife, such as grizzly bears, caribou, mountains goats and sheep. Mountain regions are also the traditional homelands of Indigenous...
For 10,000 years, plains bison ran wild in Alberta’s Banff area. European settlers nearly eradicated the species due to overhunting, causing the extinction of bison in Banff National Park for the past 170 years....
Mountains make up one-quarter of Canada’s land-mass, and most are in British Columbia (BC). As our population continues to grow, mountain ecosystems face unprecedented threats to their sustainability, including climate change impacts, biodiversity loss...
Canadian Mountain Network Co-Research Director Norma Kassi is helping indigenous communities ensure they are actively involved in scientific research in Canada’s North. In her recent interview in Up Here Magazine, she states, “Now our...
The Canadian Parks Collective for Innovation and Leadership (CPCIL) and the Canadian Committee for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (CCIUCN) organized a webinar on July 4th, 2019 to present the 2021-2024 IUCN Draft...
CMN Co-Research Director Dr. Stan Boutin is a true leader in the world of mammal population ecology. Dr. Boutin was presented with the 2018 Merriam Award at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American...
D'après une nouvelle étude publié dans @ScienceMagazine, les #montagnes terrestres ont mystérieusement cessé de croître pendant un milliard d'années : https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/sciences/geologie-les-montagnes-ont-mysterieusement-cesse-de-croitre-pendant-un-milliard-annees
#RechercheMontagnes #Recherche #Science @NatGeo
This new study in @ScienceMagazine shows that #mountain building has not always been as active as it is today or as it was early in Earth's history:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/728
#MountainSystems #MountainResearch #Sience
Cette étude sur les bois de #caribous rejetés au cours des dernières décennies - et, dans certains cas, des siècles - démontre une fidélité de longue date du troupeau de caribous « Porcupine » à la plaine côtière comme site de vêlage (en anglais): https://www.arctictoday.com/what-old-caribou-antlers-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-can-tell-researchers-about-historic-migrations/
Read this new #article about the study of #caribou antlers discarded over past decades — and, in some cases, centuries — shows a longstanding fidelity among the Porcupine Caribou Herd to the coastal plain as a calving site: https://www.arctictoday.com/what-old-caribou-antlers-in-alaskas-arctic-refuge-can-tell-researchers-about-historic-migrations/ #Ecology #IndigenousPeoples
Plus de 200 #chercheurs de partout au pays ont signé une lettre ouverte demandant plus de contributions #autochtones à l'initiative « Navigating the New Arctic », qui étudie les effets du changement climatique sur les #communautés #arctiques : https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/02/05/researchers-ask-for-more-indigenous-input-in-national-arctic-science-initiative/
