Nature
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Wild About Ecological Anachronism
Mammoths and other Pleistocene megafauna went extinct thousands of years ago, but if you look closely, you can see their ghosts. Within an ecosystem, many plant and animal species form symbiotic relationships where…
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Wild About Wilderness
In my early 20s, I hiked into the backcountry of the southern Canadian Rockies. With horses carrying the tents and other gear, we climbed to the Continental Divide. Seeing mountains stretch in all…
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Wild About Animal Culture
Our knowledge of animal behaviour has grown significantly over the past few decades and one of the places our understanding has shifted is around social learning and animal culture. For a long time…
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Happy Anniversary, Little Blog!
Last August, I decided I wanted to create something that would celebrate the richness of the world around us. Life feels heavy these days and news and the internet only seem to add…
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Wild About Play
As humans, we have a tendency to divide our lives into the distinct categories of work and play. Work is viewed as essential—the daily effort of earning a living, raising a family—while play…
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Wild About Ancient Forests
This week, explorers from the Ancient Forest Alliance discovered one of the largest trees ever found in British Columbia, a giant western red cedar more than 150 feet tall and likely more than…
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Wild About the Art of Hoping Well
My relationship with hope has been an uneasy one and that uneasiness is only exacerbated by the relentless onslaught of the climate crises. Without a doubt, it is hard to be hopeful when…
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Wild About Nature Apps
Downstairs on my bookshelves, I have an entire collection of well-worn field guides on everything from insects to wildflowers. Most of them, however, I haven’t opened in years. Like most people, if I…
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Wild About Biophilia
“No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.” – David Attenborough If you live in an urban environment, it can sometimes…
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Wild About Desire Paths
We’ve all done it. Stepped off the designated path to take a shortcut or check out a more interesting feature. When enough people follow in each other’s footsteps along an alternative route, that…
