News from Canada's Boreal Forest
Nearly 20 per cent of adults who responded to a Canadian Nature Survey in 2012 cited birding as a hobby. Conservation groups are calling for the protection of at least half of the boreal forest in North America, which are home to an estimated 3 billion birds.
With more depressing results that suggest climate change threatens half of Canada’s songbirds with significant habitat loss, you might expect one of the new study’s authors to be downcast.
But Jeff Wells isn’t.
“We need to get out of that pessimistic, completely gloomy view of all the bad things that are happening and start thinking about solutions,” said Wells, chief scientist and lead author of the study...
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