Invasive species are a problem with no easy solution,
and, in my experience, are so often misunderstood by the general public, so if
you’ll bear with me, I’ll start from the top.
We live in a...
I find it exhausting when we declare problems
unsolvable, as though dedicated dollars and engineering haven’t already granted
us the gifts of flight, cell phones and space travel.
By comparison, the things we have yet to...
The harm we’ve done our atmosphere is one of the most
thoroughly studied phenomena in human history, the subject of international
scientific inquiry and consensus for decades now.
The same ironclad scientific methodology which allowed
us to...
The sanctity of Nova Scotia’s protected areas has taken
a beating in recent years, especially those of the eastern shore, their
significance dragged through either corporate or political mud in order to
justify their dismantling, a sharp contrast to the...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) comes up a lot these days, in
politics, in media, and increasingly in daily life, a trend I hope continues as
the urgency of global warming overwhelms our inaction, but just how we perceive
this CO2 and...
The Migratory
Bird Convention Act (MBCA) is a fine piece of legislation, stipulating in no
uncertain terms than an exhaustive list of our native birds - chiefly those who
come and go with the seasons - cannot be legally killed,...
Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
We often talk in terms of expunging fossil fuels from
our energy diet, which can frame the discussion in a negative and at times
contentious light. More often we should be talking in terms of adding clean
energy, and acknowledge...
The loss of wilderness to forestry, pollution,
agriculture, urban sprawl and climate change is the single most potent driver
of mass extinction.
When we say that 1 million species could go extinct in
the next few decades,...
Nature means many things to many people, some of us
drawn to the cascading rhythm of beaches or rocky shorelines, others to the
quiet dignity of ancient forests, others still to public gardens and the
ornateness of urban green space.