April 6, 2014, 1:00pmJackie Chambers Jackie Chambers, Education and Outreach Manager of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, will reveal the ecological and cultural importance of this amazing plant. Included with museum admission or membership
March 15-30, 2014Join the Beaty Biodiversity Museum every day at 12:30 p.m. for a different hands-on activity, brought to you by volunteers, staff, curators, and special guests! Meet new friends while exploring different aspects of the biodiversity around us.
I have spent lots of time professionally and recreationally around rivers and I cherish every visit. So, I thought that I knew a lot about rivers, but I did not know this. In the 1990s, grey wolves were re-introduced into Yellowstone National Park (in the US) after an absence of about 70 years.
The Mackenzie River system, some 6,236 km long in total, has its headwaters in the Omineca Mountains of central British Columbia and is the longest river in Canada – and second only to the Missouri/Mississippi in North America. The entire river basin (1.8 million square kilometers) is one-fifth the size of Canada!
Thank you for considering a contribution to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Your support helps ensure that our mission of preserving the rich natural biodiversity not only in British Columbia, but worldwide, will continue to flourish for many more years
Roman Polanski’s classic film Chinatown (1974) depicts some of the seedier consequences of the “water wars” that have accompanied much of California’s development. More recently, the thirst for water by California’s Central Valley for the agricultural
March 6, 2014, 7:00 p.m.UBC Earth Sciences Building, Ross Beaty Lecture TheatreDick CanningsBird population trends are one of the best indicators of ecosystem health. Take flight with Dick Cannings on a Canada-wide assessment of the country’s birds, the first time this had ever been done for any major group of animals.
Looking for activities to do with your family and friends over Spring Break? The Beaty Biodiversity Museum has planned a suite of biodiversity programming from March 15-30, 2014. Every day during Spring Break, the Beaty Museum features a different acti
The conservative government of Stephen Harper introduced several profound changes to Canada’s environmental legislation in its budget bill (C-38) of June 2012. Amongst these were changes to the federal Fisheries Act (FA), Canada’s longest serving and much envied1 piece of environmental legislation. Here, I will outline the history of the Fisheries Act, how it has been changed by the passage of Bill C-38, and what it means for Canada’s freshwater fish biodiversity. I focus on freshwater fishes because the key change to the FA involves habitat protection, and habitat loss and degradation are much more series threats to freshwater fishes than for marine fishes2,3. In addition, while there is often much focus on the diversity of marine fishes which is, undoubtedly, spectacular, consider that almost 40% of all fishes (some 33,000 species and counting) occur in freshwaters yet freshwater habitats make only 0.8% of the total surface area of the Earth! Per unit area, diversity of freshwater fishes is unmatched.
March 2, 2014, 1:00pmEric TaylorDive in with Dr. Taylor for an exploration on why fishes are so diverse and an illustration on some of their truly amazing adaptations.Included with museum admission or membership
