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MAKING CANADA WILDER: WILDER VOICES SPEAKER SERIES KICKS OFF THIS OCTOBER

Thursday September 25, 2025
25 SEPTEMBER 2025 (Calgary, AB) – Across Canada, forests, wetlands, rivers, and grasslands are more...
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Conservation Connections: Reflections from Nigeria Thursday August 28, 2025
  This month, we caught up with Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation at the Wilder Institute, following his recent trip to Nigeria. For the past few years, the...
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Featured WILDER INSTITUTE AND MAGNETAWAN FIRST NATION UNITE TO PROTECT ONTARIO’S AT-RISK TURTLES Tuesday August 19, 2025
19 AUGUST 2025 (Calgary, AB) – In the stillness of an August day, along the shores of Magnetawan First Nation in Ontario, a small midland painted turtle hatchling slipped into...
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Featured HOPE UNDERGROUND: A PROMISING STEP FORWARD FOR ONE OF CANADA’S RAREST MAMMALS Thursday August 7, 2025
7 AUGUST 2025 (Calgary, AB) – High-pitched squeaks echo through the Vancouver Island marmot facility at the Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre (ABC) — subtle signals of something extraordinary: new...
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Conservation Connections: Reflections from Nigeria

Thursday August 28, 2025

  This month, we caught up with Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, Senior Scientist, Wildlife Conservation at the Wilder Institute, following his recent trip to Nigeria. For the past few years, the...

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WILDER INSTITUTE AND MAGNETAWAN FIRST NATION UNITE TO PROTECT ONTARIO’S AT-RISK TURTLES

Tuesday August 19, 2025

19 AUGUST 2025 (Calgary, AB) – In the stillness of an August day, along the shores of Magnetawan First Nation in Ontario, a small midland painted turtle hatchling slipped into...

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HOPE UNDERGROUND: A PROMISING STEP FORWARD FOR ONE OF CANADA’S RAREST MAMMALS

Thursday August 7, 2025

7 AUGUST 2025 (Calgary, AB) – High-pitched squeaks echo through the Vancouver Island marmot facility at the Wilder Institute’s Archibald Biodiversity Centre (ABC) — subtle signals of something extraordinary: new...

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Head-Starting Burrowing Owls for a Wild Future

Monday July 21, 2025

We sat down with Graham Dixon-MacCallum, a Conservation Research Population Ecologist at the Wilder Institute who leads our burrowing owl head-starting conservation program. Burrowing owls are small, long-legged owls that...

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FEATHERS OF THE FUTURE: FIRST WHOOPING CRANES HATCHED AT THE ARCHIBALD BIODIVERSITY CENTRE

Thursday June 12, 2025

12 JUNE 2025 (Calgary, AB) – Wonder, hope, and resilience are woven into every part of wildlife conservation— but few moments capture these emotions more powerfully than the arrival of...

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WILDER INSTITUTE LEADS CANADA’S FIRST IUCN SSC CENTRE FOR SPECIES SURVIVAL: PUTTING PEOPLE AT THE HEART OF CONSERVATION

Tuesday May 13, 2025

13 MAY 2025 (Calgary, AB) – Breaking new ground in Canada, the Wilder Institute in partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) established...

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