
Government quick to cash in on beaver image, slow to protect keystone species
A beautiful new $50 coin has been unveiled by the Royal Canadian Mint. The silver coin features a picturesque design by artist Emily Damstra, showing
A beautiful new $50 coin has been unveiled by the Royal Canadian Mint. The silver coin features a picturesque design by artist Emily Damstra, showing
This holiday season we're bringing you a gift guaranteed to make the most stoic gift-receiver squeal with delight. Give the gift that keeps on giving
It’s a beautiful day in Fort Langely, British Columbia. Residents whose homes surround a local trail and creek had expressed concerns to the municipality over
It was with heavy hearts that we learned a family of beavers living at the Meadow Lakes Golf and Country Club was killed by Highway
The City of Calgary needs to work on their listening skills. Since mid-spring, we have been emailing and calling their Council, asking that they look
It's our Canada Day special! To celebrate the 147th birthday of our great nation, we’re bringing you the best of beavers from Defender Radio’s first
We’re celebrating The Beaver today – but not the one we usually write about. The Oakville Beaver, an award-winning community newspaper in the Toronto suburb
A man is being fined under hunting regulations after RCMP discovered a brutalized beaver in Watrous, Saskatchewan. The community, which is part of the Regional
We’re officially Beaver Believers! As of Monday, The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals has become a corporate sponsor of The Beaver Believers film
We’re celebrating beavers this week and asking you to become a beaver believer. We’re happy to bring you two great beaver stories. First up is
In late May of 2014, APFA's team headed to Northern Ontario to provide expertise to a landowner concerned about beavers on his property. The municipality
Our beaver tour is wrapping up today, but we wanted to share with you some of the photos we took while in Northern Ontario this
Over 2,000 kilometres. Dozens of site visits and installations. Multiple municipalities. Lives will be saved with our Ontario beaver tour next week – but only
A $1 million, four-year plan to manage beavers is on the way from the Manitoba government – but what will it mean for nature’s ultimate
For nearly 80 years, The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals has tried to find ways to stop the use of fur and end
The Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) has chosen to continue the suspension of all trapping in their parks until a committee can prepare new policies –
The term non-target catch refers to anything caught in a trap that wasn’t the intended animal. Unfortunately, traps don’t know how to tell the difference
A beaver was released near his home after a Conservation Officer found him wrapped in a snare trap in Prince George. The Conservation Officer told Global News that the beaver was caught in an illegal snare trap in a residential area. The question we must ask is: why was the trap deemed illegal?
We tell people that traps pose a risk to public safety. Trappers laugh at us. And then this happens. In the community of Coquille, Oregon,
Mom’s busy, getting some food ready. Dad’s fixing stuff around the house – patching holes, making sure everything is as it should be. And the
In the last two years, APFA has visited numerous municipalities across British Columbia, to talk about our successful beaver coexistence program. A simple device made
APFA has an opportunity to literally save the lives of beaver families – but only if we can get your help. We’ve received invitations from
Margaret Atwood once said that Canada was built on dead beavers. She couldn’t have been more right. Since the time of first contact, beavers have
The media is quickly tuning into the dire environmental situation at Stanley Park’s Beaver Lake. According to an article in the Times Colonist, the ecologically
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