The eastern loggerhead shrike is one of the fastest-declining bird species in North America. These tiny songbirds might look sweet, but they hunt like birds of prey, using their beak to impale their future meals (typically large insects) on thorns or the barbed wire of fences. It makes sense that the thorn trees on parts of Ontario's Carden Alvar are a traditional nesting area for the shrikes.

But the characteristics that make this bird special -- like their unique hunting style -- can also hurt their survival. This endangered species is an "area-sensitive species" that can't live just anywhere. And there's now only five regular breeding grounds in Canada for the eastern loggerhead shrike.

The Nature Conservancy Canada is working to make sure the eastern loggerhead shrike is around for generations to come, but they can't do it without you help. Sign this pledge to be a voice for Canada's endangered species and support the protection of animals like the eastern loggerhead shrike.

1 in 8. That's the number of kids in Canada who go hungry every day. When these kids are hungry day after day, they get sick. They are lonely and afraid. They drop out of school. No child should go hungry. We must change that number.



It's not just about giving kids food to eat -- it's about changing our collective will and political priorities. In order to make this change, we need to grow a strong movement of compassionate supporters -- like you.



Show kids you care by pledging to help end child hunger in Canada. Every pledge shows that Canadians care about kids and will work together to help fill their tummies, fill their minds.

Once hunted to the very edge of extinction, the South Australian fur seals have made a comeback, notably on Kangaroo Island. In fact, the seal population has recovered so much that certain interests are pushing for a cull.

Arguments go that the seals pose a problem for fish farms, that they are threatening the fairy penguins of Kangaroo Island and, most dubious of all, that a seal "harvest" would be profitable.

The first argument is not an excuse to kill wild animals, if the second becomes substantiated by scientific evidence then the answer is sterilisation, not slaughter, and the third is complete nonsense. Even if profit were a valid motive, which it isn’t, the economic argument holds no water.  The infamous seal cull in Canada only survives because of government subsidies - the market for seal pelts has collapsed.

Ask the State government to continue to reject these dubious calls for a seal cull.

Last week after Canadian Sen. Mac Harb announced that he would introduce a bill to end the seal slaughter, PETA immediately posted an action alert on our website asking our members to urge Canadian senators to support the bill. You responded in droves: Within two days, some 50,000 of you asked them to pass the bill and end the slaughter. Hollywood jumped in, too, and soon a link to our action alert had reached millions of people via Twitter.

Following a meeting with PETA just weeks ago, Canadian Sen. Mac Harb introduced historic legislation today to end Canada's seal slaughter, stating that the "end of the commercial sealing industry is now inevitable." Sen. Larry Campbell seconded the motion, and it received an overwhelmingly positive response from other senators who want to see it debated.

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By the late 1930s, the swift fox had disappeared from Canada, seemingly destined for the stuff of local folklore and reminiscences. Then a coalition of conservation groups joined together to give this tiny fox a shot at returning to Canada's prairies, and in 1983, captive-bred swift foxes were released. The swift fox was back!

Today, the swift fox has been upgraded to Endangered status in Canada -- but the future of the fox is fragile and still hanging on the brink.

In the southern band of Canada where 90% of us live, 85% of our terrestrial species at risk are battling for their lives, trying to coexist with us on dwindling fragments of our natural land.

We must fight to ensure that not one of the over 600 Canadians species at risk will go extinct or become extirpated like the swift fox was once. Pledge to support conservation efforts to save Canada's at-risk species like the swift fox today.