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2019-10-15

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles October 2019

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles October 2019 Featured story BC & Alberta Bat Action Team Meeting Summary By Leigh Anne Isaac of the Kootenay Community Bat Project and Senior Wildlife Biologist at Vast Resource Solutions...

Education / News & Announcements / Quebec / Students / Uncategorized / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2019-10-10

Changement de “garde” au RCSF-Québec

Nous souhaitons souligner la fin du programme de résidence de Benjamin Lamglait. Au cours de ce programme de formation spécialisée en médecine zoologique de trois ans, Benjamin a eu l’occasion de parfaire ses connaissances...

Education / News & Announcements / Quebec / Uncategorized / Veterinary resident Quebec Regional Center / Website Rotator

2019-10-10

Changing of the “guard” at CWHC-Quebec

We wish to highlight the completion of Benjamin Lamglait’s residency program. During this three-year training program in zoological medicine, Benjamin had the opportunity to increase his knowledge and skills on different aspects of the...

Bats / White Nose Syndrome

2019-10-04

BC & Alberta Bat Action Team Meeting Summary

Blue Lake, September 13-15, 2019 Background: The British Columbia Bat Action Team (BC BAT) is a group of professional biologists, academic researchers, veterinarians, environmental educators, students, naturalists, wildlife rehabilitators, government biologists, and other people...

Birds / Ontario/Nunavut / Poisoning / Research / Students / Surveillance / Toxicity / Urban Wildlife / Website Rotator

2019-10-04

Summer Research Project: Raptors and Rodenticides.

I love urban wildlife, those animals that refuse to let humans remove them from their habitat. Some urban environments seem totally incompatible with wildlife, yet some animals carve out a niche for themselves and...

Bat Monthly / White Nose Syndrome

2019-09-20

Bat Monthly Chauves-souris Mensuelles September 2019

Featured story BC Annual Bat Count Mandy Kellner, BC Community Bat Program Provincial Coordinator bcbats@gmail.com The BC Annual Bat Count is one component of the BC Community Bat Program. It is a summer...

Atlantic / Bats / Mammals / Rabies / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-09-09

Rogue bat: Just hanging out or a sign of disease?

Bats are important and fascinating animals. They eat tons of insect pests; keeping our crops and forests healthy and saving us billions of dollars in agricultural pest control each year. Several Canadian bat species...

Uncategorized

2019-09-04

Évidences de prédation d’un phoque gris par un requin aux Iles-de-la-Madeleine

Le Réseau québécois d’urgence des mammifères marins (RQUMM) nous a soumis une série de photos d’un phoque gris (Halichoerus grypus) échoué à la fin du mois d’août aux Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec. Ce phoque, qui se...

Mammals / News & Announcements / Quebec / Trauma / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-09-04

Evidence of predation of a grey seal by a shark in the Magdalen islands

The Réseau québécois d’urgence des mammifères marins (RQUMM)submitted a series of pictures of a grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) that was found stranded at the end of August in the Magdalen Islands, Quebec. This seal,...

Bats / White Nose Syndrome

2019-08-30

Recovery Plan for Québec’s Non-migratory Bat Species

Recovery Plan for Québec’s Non-migratory Bat Species Québec Bat recovery team, May 2019 White nose syndrome, an infection caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, arrived in the Québec province in 2010. Since then, it...

British Columbia / CWD / Surveillance / Uncategorized / Website Rotator

2019-08-22

“Bring Out Your Heads”: Hunters are the First Line of Defense Against a Deadly Disease Affecting Deer

I stare at the carefully folded package on the kitchen table. Neat straight edges in the paper wrapping protect the contents inside. Every year, my partner’s father gifts us this way with deer sausage....