Today's topic comes from Dr. John Campbell, whose channel I have been watching since before the WHO declared the pandemic (...

No, I am not referring to the holiday season I am talking about bear bells. Due to COVID travel restrictions, many more people in urban...

Since the start of the pandemic, scarcely a quarter goes by without another mink-related story. Thought of the Day - August 2 2021 -...

Remember a couple of decades ago when farmed wild meat become a novelty on restaurant menus? Bison, ostrich, wild boar, even kangaroo...

As some of you may have seen, at the end of last week around 1,000 butterflies took flight at seniors living and care homes in BC's lower...

While this stuff does not usually make headlines there continue to be stories and issues concerning animals and COVID. We first touched...

About a year ago we first started talking about mink. It seems that they are susceptible to the same coronaviruses as humans, and the...

Vaccine Development As you know cats, apes, mink are all susceptible to COVID-19. To address these infections, scientists are...

One of the greatest assets of our neighbourhood is how close we are to nature, both Burnaby Lake and Mountain. The proximity of these...

One of the benefits of life's disruption caused but COVID-19 is you get a new insight into human nature. Here are some examples brought...

There is a news story that just keeps reemerging - Dogs That Can Detect COVID. This story came out way back in June ( Thought of the Day...

As you probably know I have had past articles discussing the dangers of mink farming ( Thought of the Day - June 12 - Mink ). Mink...

Well you learn something new every day. As some of you may have all ready seen the press is abuzz with a new story that "half a million...

The mind boggles. Three months ago I wrote that we should beware of folk taking advantage of the COVID scare (https://clifffraser0.wixsi...

If you have been down to Burnaby Lake in the past couple of months you have probably noticed the increase in Canada Geese this year. The...

Maybe you thought I was going to talk about reports of a new strain of H1N1 (swine flu) but no, this is about locusts. This plague also...

One of the many important challenges in the management of this pandemic is to trace the source of 2019-nCoV. This is important for a...

Just when you thought it could not get any worse, as you may have seen there has been significant outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in...

Hi All, As you may have seen in recent publications, Vancouver has a rat problem. With businesses closed, they are on the rampage for...

Hi All, Evolutionarily speaking, gorillas really aren’t that different from humans. As such, mountain gorillas are already known to be...