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A family says Flair Airlines nearly ruined their Christmas holiday and could have cost them their jobs after it cancelled their flight last minute, then rebooked them more than a week later. Disaster was ultimately averted after the family contacted Global News, and Flair confirmed late Friday that it would …
Read More »Bird sanctuary construction works around threatened birds’ burrows
An ongoing city restoration project at a bird sanctuary in Calgary is now working around the nesting schedule of a threatened bird species in Canada, and seeing more of the birds return. The Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Reconnection Project is making improvements to the natural environment of the sanctuary for the fish, birds and plants …
Read More »Monarch butterflies added to international list of threatened species
The migratory monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the iconic orange-and-black insect on the international endangered list because of its fast dwindling numbers. “It’s just a devastating decline,” said Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at Duke University who was not involved in the new listing. …
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