National Wildlife Week - April 8 to 14, 2007

Canada’s North – ours to protect, the world’s to cherish

2007 National Wildlife Week Poster.

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What image does “Canada’s North” conjure up for you? A stark and silent land sealed in perpetual winter? Ghostly northern lights shimmering against an incredibly cold, dark sky? Perhaps you regard the North as a cold, harsh environment. Or maybe you already know that it is a fascinating world, inhabited by spectacularly resilient plants and animals adapted to some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.

This year’s National Wildlife Week theme is important and timely. First, the North, as distant as it may seem to southerners, bears the brunt of human-induced environmental change. Its amazing wildlife and unique ecosystems, established over thousands of years, are feeling the warm embrace of rapid climate change, the toxic taste of accumulating chemical pollution, and mixed blessing of escalating development of its natural resources. Changes are happening in Canada’s North, and there are things we can all do to help conserve the wildlife that lives there.

Secondly, 2007-08 is International Polar Year, sponsored by the International Council for Science and the World Meteorological Organisation. For the third time since 1882, scientists from all over the world will engage in an extravaganza of research, striving to get a better picture of conditions in the Earth’s polar regions and how they influence the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere and lands.

Join us during National Wildlife Week, April 8-14, 2007, to celebrate and protect the wildlife of Canada’s North.

Learning About Wildlife Educational Kit

As part of the National Wildlife Week program CWF produces an educational kit that includes classroom ready lesson plans featuring a different conservation theme, such as biodiversity, habitat, sustainability, climate change, invasive species, and species at risk recovery.

The NWW Learning About Wildlife kits includes a beautiful promotional poster, teacher’s guide an illustrated learning poster, with colouring component (for younger students) on the reverse side and information about CWF’s WILD School program.

Order a copy of the 2007 Learning About Wildlife kit.

If you have already received a NWW kit and wish to complete the feedback form online, please click here.

For copies of previous Learning About Wildlife units click here.