In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we learn why so many people are working so hard to save the turtles, and how you can help; we get advice on what to do about invasive species in your garden; and we hear how fish waste is being used to enrich gardens in the north.
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we learn why so many people are working so hard to save the turtles, and how you can help; we get advice on what to do about invasive species in your garden; and we hear how fish waste is being used to enrich gardens in the north.Fish waste is getting transformed into local fertilizer for Yellowknife gardensRoad mortality is a threat for many turtles, including the endangered Blanding's turtle.
Many are also run over by cars, especially when they're forced to travel farther to find good nesting sites. Their nests are also decimated by predators such as raccoons, which have outsized populations thanks to household garbage for them to feed on. Brianna Sullivan, a keeper in the zoo's Americas Pavilion, where the hatchlings are on display, said at that stage, they're often eaten by raccoons and dogs. The zoo grows them up to about the size of a baked potato before release. "We want to increase the chance they will survive in the wild … and that we hope will increase our wild Blanding's population."Watch out for turtles when driving and help them cross roads.
Popular flowers such as pansies and petunias that you need to plant each year aren't considered pollinator-friendly. But a new study finds some varieties of annual flowerslent and underwrote less money for the fossil fuel industry for the second year in a row Up until recently, she would return those unwanted parts to Great Slave Lake. That meant hauling the bins back out by boat or snowmobile, dumping them on the ice or in the water, and cleaning up after.Karine Gignac, who started helping fillet Vaillancourt's catch early last year, quickly saw an opportunity to turn those fish heads, spines, scales and skin into compost for peoples' gardens.
It's about 10 metres long and a metre and half wide, with a hatch on top where the ingredients go: scraps from commercial operators Fish on the Bay and N.W.T. Fish, spent grain from N.W.T. Brewing, and wood chips. Gignac said people have told her the composter resembles the locomotive of a train.
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