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

We’re taking time on World Wildlife Day to show some love for the unlovable: spiders, mosquitoes, and leeches.

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) Protecting polar bear habitat 2) Strengthening municipal bylaws 3) Providing tax exemptions to increase energy efficiency, and 4) Substituting fungus for plastic

Artificial light is blotting out the stars, harming both wildlife and humans. We've compiled a short list of things we can do to reduce light pollution.

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) Geothermal energy systems on Manitoba First Nations; 2) Turning farmland back into grassland through a reverse auction; 3) A cougar coexistence project in Alberta; and 4) Finding a solution for disposing of 20 billion pairs of shoes annually

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) making progress in recycling wind turbine blades; 2) developing car tires from sustainable materials; 3) protecting Manitoba’s groundwater; and 4) protecting urban parks.

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.