Damien Joly

Wildlife Disease Surveillance in Saskatchewan: The Importance of Rehabilitation Facilities - Healthy Wildlife - The blog of the CWHC Monitoring wildlife health is important, as diseases can impact the abundance of species, and several can also affect domestic animals and people with significant economic and social costs. Examples o...

Our collaboration with #wildliferehab facilities is SO important to our ability to monitor #wildlifedisease in Canada.

Check out this great article on the importance of this relationship in #Saskatchewan and our fantastic partners!

healthywildlife.ca/wildlife-dis...

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Spring is coming!

#MushroomMonday
#fungi
#fungifriends
#HarewoodPlains

Prey --> Predator: Killer of Killers --> Predator: Badlands (and a couple Aliens) was a great journey for me, but Badlands stands on its own.

Calgary’s Funny Bunnies - Healthy Wildlife - The blog of the CWHC Press Release Unusual Kidney Lesions Discovered in Calgary’s Urban Jackrabbits Reveal New Insights into City Wildlife Health Calgary, Alberta – A veterinary researcher, Jamie Rothenburger, studying ur...

Calgary's "funny bunnies" ....

healthywildlife.ca/calgarys-fun...

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Will Hunting Work to Control CWD in British Columbia? Yes. - Chronic Wasting Disease in British Columbia By Jessica Russell, Response Planning Specialist

New article from Jessica Russell (www.linkedin.com/in/jess-russ...) on how hunting *can* control #CWD in British Columbia

cwdbc.ca/cwd/yes-hunt...

Bridging the gap: Multi-sector perspectives on human, domestic animal, and wildlife leptospirosis in Ontario, Canada Although leptospirosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases worldwide, limited surveillance and poor coordination between human and animal health sectors have resulted in scarce and disparate d...

Great new paper from our CWHC Ontario/Nunavut Regional Center on perspectives of #lepto from different sectors

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Note that it's 18h30 **Atlantic Standard Time**

How do you make your yard #bat friendly?

CWHC Atlantic Ecologist Darrian Washinger will be discussing this and the science behind bat #conservation in an upcoming free webinar (details below).

Je suis désolé, le webinaire sera offert uniquement en anglais.

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Seattle Seahawks: Tribal origins of NFL logo links fans to indigenous roots The Super Bowl team's logo originates with a First Nations tribe in Canada.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

As the leading global voice on the environment, UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in addressing humanity’s most pressing environmental challenges.

To achieve this, we regularly seek qualified professionals to join our team.

See current vacancies here: https://ow.ly/Gxon50Y9Qw2

A sliver moon during a light show at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore a couple weeks ago

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

So good!

Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi Prototaxites fossils are distinct from Fungi, suggesting that they represent an extinct lineage of eukaryotic life.

So cool: study shows #Prototaxites were not #fungi, " ... instead suggesting that this enigmatic organism is best assigned to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage."

9 meters tall!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#fungifriends

Finally got to read #12 today, the finale of a fantastic #StarWars comic run by @charlessoule.bsky.social and Luke Ross.

Wow - a brilliant dive into the madness of Kylo Ren. So fun.

This is figure 1, which shows global mean HDDs for three global warming scenarios.

A paper in Nature Sustainability presents a global dataset that maps global heating and cooling degree days, finding future hotspots, rising cooling demand and early shifts in energy needs with major global impacts. go.nature.com/4kn6J4U 🧪

Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first documented die-off of wildlife from the virus on the con...

The #HPAI panzootic (=pandemic in animals) continues to ravage #wildlife, including Antarctica. New study from the @onehealthinstitute.bsky.social

phys.org/news/2026-02...

Fascinating new article on Besnoitia parasitism in migratory #caribou in Canada, Alaska (USA), and Greenland.

jwd.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...

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“WOW, We’re Going to Need a Bigger Trailer!!” - Healthy Wildlife - The blog of the CWHC On October 29, 2025 a recently deceased white shark had been found on the shores of Prince Edward Island National Park and a Park’s team was being assembled to tow the fish to shore and transport it t...

Great post on a post-mortem examination of a #GreatWhiteShark !

healthywildlife.ca/wow-were-goi...

While I love the current SFF interest in all things fungi/mushroom, I am eagerly awaiting the humble slime mold’s turn to shine. ✨

It’s Groundhog Day! Vancouver Island Violet has made her prediction! Six more weeks of winter! This was confirmed by her mate Phillip who also got in the weather prediction action. Watch here:

Equitable investment in the veterinary workforce is foundational to One Health and planetary wellbeing The recently released World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)'s inaugural State of the World's Animal Health report identifies pressing animal health challenges, including zoonoses, transboundary ...

Great article on why #veterinarians matter to #GlobalHealth:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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A couple of jelly #fungi (I think?) on an arbutus in #HarewoodPlains from the other day.

#fungifriends

A very important read:

"The Economics of a Livable Planet: 5 Things Every Policymaker, CEO, and Development Practitioner Should Know"

blogs.worldbank.org/en/climatech...

Great overview of HPAI H5N1 in Europe, a review which is part of the 11th international symposium on avian influenza proceedings.
👉 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Annual epidemiological report for 2024 on zoonotic influenza. Report by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
👉 www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

So cool. I love the idea of these huge #fungl -like organisms covering our planet, but not being in any of the biological kingdoms we now recognize. It's like watching an episode of #ScavengersReign

#fungifriends

Lutrogale perspicillata

I'm in Singapore, and despite all my efforts, haven't seen any #fungi, but these #otters were so cool. I believe they're smooth coated otters. Brilliant.