Informing and encouraging initiatives that support Western Canada's natural environment

Peat is a shapeshifter coming in many different forms from bogs to fens to swamps to muskeg and is home to cranberries and orchids, rare moths and butterflies, woodland caribou, and tree-climbing turtles. Explore this unfamiliar environment in Swamplands by Edward Struzik.

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) The outsized importance of isolated wetlands 2) Reusing and recycling EV batteries 3) Colourful slime molds live part of their lives like animals

Water - there's either too much or not enough so wetlands are drained and large-scale irrigation systems are implemented. But what is the impact on the natural environment? Éco dans les Prairies - Radio-Canada en Saskatchewan

We’re highlighting four of Western Canada’s wetlands in honour of World Wetlands Day: Whitewater Lake, Manitoba; Chaplin Lake, Saskatchewan; Beaver Hills/Cooking Lake Moraine, Alberta; and Tofino Mudflats, British Columbia.

This week's top stories in EcoWest News: 1) From cake sales to microrewilding - protecting urban nature 2) food conservation to prevent food waste 3) celestial nights out in 2023

CO2 emissions from buildings and construction reached an all-time high in 2021. We need to put more of an effort into conservation, retrofits, deconstruction, and circular approaches to building construction and maintenance.