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Canada is legendary for its winters. Many people think it s a good time to hide out indoors by a roaring fire, but if you have a look around, you may be pleasantly surprised by the incredible number of amazing things to do. Some activities are close to home; others may involve a bit of travel, but all will leave you with rosy red cheeks and a smile on your face.
From coast to coast to coast, every region has their own spin on what makes getting out and enjoying all that winter has to offer fun. In Ottawa, you can skate for miles on a frozen canal. In the Rockies, you can rub shoulders with the jet set at Whistler; head north to the Yukon to watch the skies erupt in a kaleidoscope of colors as the northern lights dance overhead; or slip into your wetsuit, grab your surfboard, and hit the waves in Tofino, British Columbia.
These foxes have shut down an area of Lake Minnewanka to have pups
Naturalist Brian Keating joins The Homestretch to share an update on a pair of red foxes enjoying privacy in the Lake Minnewanka day-use area.
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Reporting from Baihuashan Nature Reserve, China
Wang Zhan drives three hours out of Beijing’s smog, past gray-brick towns and yellowed hills to reach a place where he can hear birds.
The Baihuashan National Nature Reserve, a rare sanctuary of pine trees and unobstructed views just west of the capital, is one of China’s more successful attempts to preserve its dwindling natural resources. Signs encourage people to stay on the trails and off the “wild mountains.” Garbage actually lands in the bin.
China has no single agency responsible for managing its overcrowded, haphazard assortment of natural areas, places that are suddenly in demand by a growing middle class looking for refuge from polluted cities.
Mountaineering and trekking is not an easy task. It is one of the outdoor adventures that may require hours of training, technical knowledge about mountaineering, and decent experience. That said, climbing Mt. Everest is probably almost every mountaineer’s dream. But only a few lucky ones turn it into a reality. The highest mountain peak in the whole wide world, Mt. Everest, is around 29,029 ft (8848 meters).
If you wonder how to gain experience in trekking before you make plans for climbing some of the gigantic and challenging mountains, we’ve got you. Here’s a list of five mountain treks that are perfect for beginner and intermediate climbers.
Short‐term recovery actions such as predator reductions and translocations will likely just delay caribou extinction, says the paper, published in the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. It is clear that unless the cumulative impacts of land uses are effectively addressed through planning and management . we will fail to achieve self‐sustaining woodland caribou populations.
Co-author Robert Serrouya of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute said he and his colleagues used years of satellite data to determine how the forest on caribou habitat in B.C. and Alberta changed between 2000 and 2018.
Over that time, they found the two provinces had a net loss of at least 33,000 square kilometres of the old-growth forest that caribou need. That s about five times the size of Banff National Park.