Canadian Geographic launches educational project about ecological corridors

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 23, 2025 3:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

A nationalist mag is launching an acquisition run aimed astatine teaching Canadians astir the value of ecological corridors.

Canadian Geographic, which is published by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, said the inaugural is designed to amended and animate Canadians astir the captious pathways that link wildlife and ecosystems crossed the country.

The mag announced the project — called "Right of Passage" — at a league connected Wednesday successful Banff, Alta. The lawsuit featured experts from crossed Canada who discussed the extortion of wildlife by strategically connecting protected areas and spaces wherever wildlife people travel.

Ecological corridors are important for galore reasons, according to Canadian Geographic. They assistance wildlife accommodate to clime change; trim human-wildlife conflicts specified arsenic roadworthy collisions; enactment wildlife migration, breeding and question for nutrient and water; and preserve clean aerial and h2o successful ecosystems crossed Canada.

The mag said ecological corridors can beryllium alongside farms, forests and recreational lands, and are not designated oregon regulated similar nationalist parks.

Right of Passage will administer acquisition materials to much than 28,000 teachers crossed Canada, the mag said.

Meredith Brown, Canadian Geographic's manager of onshore and h2o relations and keynote talker astatine the conference, said ecological corridors are earthy lifelines for wildlife.

"Humans person made it challenging for galore animals to determination freely, and arsenic a result, animals are dying and nationalist information is astatine risk," she said. "With Right of Passage, we're inspiring radical crossed Canada — done interactive learning, storytelling and assemblage action. We each payment from protecting biodiversity, and creating ecological corridors is large for wildlife and large for assemblage gathering and collaboration."

Canadian Geographic's editor-in-chief, Alexandra Pope, said the mag volition assistance dispersed the connection astir the acquisition campaign.

"Right of Passage volition item the section heroes, Indigenous knowledge and innovative conservation efforts that are softly shaping a much connected and resilient aboriginal for Canada's wildlife," she said.

To larn much astir Right of Passage, sojourn the project's website.