News from Canada's Boreal Forest
October 8, 2018 | Canadian Press | Published News |
An oil soaked surf scoter is treated during evaluations at the International Bird Rescue Research Center in Cordelia, Calif., in this Nov. 9. 2007 file photo. Thousands of birds have been found dead or blackened by sticky sludge since the San Francisco Bay oil spill, but no species has been hit harder than the surf scoter, a migratory sea duck that had already seen a precipitous population decline in recent decades.
AP Photo/Michael Macor
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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