beluga whales

We loved seeing all the creative entries for the #ProtectPolarBears Colouring Contest. Thanks so much to everyone who entered.

Can we measure the stress of beluga whales using their snot? That’s what Justine Hudson and #SnotForScience aims to find out.

Here are the summer 2021 winners of the CPAWS Manitoba colouring contest and quotes about the importance of protecting beluga whales.

The Western Hudson Bay is home to some of the largest concentrations of beluga whales and polar bears in the world. And it needs protection.

The situation in western Hudson Bay is a prime example of why Canada needs to triple ocean habitat protection. Manitoba has lost a third of its polar bear population in the past two decades and beluga whales in western Hudson Bay have been on Canada’s species-at-risk list since 2004.

With the largest concentration of beluga whales and polar bears on the planet, western Hudson Bay presents a spectacular opportunity to protect these animals and a vast richness of wildlife while building our economy and maintaining a treasured way of life.

The waters that drain into these areas are sourced from roughly 1.4 million square kilometres of the North American landscape (about twice the size of Alberta), a region that includes concentrated development as well as large areas of intact Boreal forest.

Successful whale habitat stewardship will reverberate through the forest