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

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) An ecological corridor in Manitoba; 2) Preparing for extreme weather events; 3) Funding bird-safe window retrofits; and 4) Documentaries on caribou and plastics

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) Manitoba’s hydro-electric highways, 2) Re-examining BC’s forestry policy, 3) Wetland drainage in Saskatchewan, and 4) The importance of sufficiency

Whether hunting their prey, attracting a mate, or building a web, there is so much to learn about the surprising lives of spiders.

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) Deconstruction saves valuable materials, 2) Calling for a halt to commercial herring fishing, 3) Concerns about peat harvesting, and 4) Reducing nitrous oxide emissions

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) Need for a comprehensive grasslands policy in Alberta, 2) Selling Canada’s water, 3) Electric-powered yardcare, and 4) Proposal for a new uranium mine in Saskatchewan

Books and community leaders: from brash, brainy crows and righteous anger to native plant rescue and designing a hope-filled community of the future