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Ecosystems and Conservation
This sub-section turns to marine, forest and desert ecosystems. It looks at ways of protecting mammals, insects and birds.
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Point Pelee National Park of Canada, Ontario
1998, production : Hannele Halm, Kenneth Hirsch, David Wilson
Point Pelee National Park is a lush Carolinian forest oasis...
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Yellow Anemone in the Northern Hemisphere
1994, production : Joseph Viszmeg
Yellow anemone (Anemone richardsonii) is a perennial herb...
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Sea Anemone
1985, production : David Denning
Some species of anemones are adapted to relatively cold...
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A National Film Board Crew in the Badlands of Alberta
1971, production : Jean-Claude Labrecque, Rex Tasker
Located northeast of Calgary in Alberta's badlands, the...
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Yellow Anemone in the Northern Hemisphere
This close-up photo shows several yellow anemones, each with six petal-like sepals. They are part of the yellow buttercup family.  Larger image
Photographer unknown, photograph

Yellow anemone (Anemone richardsonii) is a perennial herb found in the Low Arctic and on Arctic islands. The plant requires consistently moist soil and is suitable for bogs, which are a type of wetlands. Climate change resulting in drying up of these wetlands endangers the survival of anemones.

National Film Board of Canada / Karvonen Films

Did you know?
The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline was first proposed in the early 1970s to transport natural gas from the Beaufort Sea into northern Alberta. The project was halted and then resurrected in 2004 along with concerns over the impact on the sensitive Arctic tundra, home to woodland caribou and grizzly bear.

National Energy Board of Canada. "Probabilistic Estimates of Hydrocarbon Volumes in the Mackenzie Delta and Beaufort Sea Discoveries" ISBN 0-662-27455-5, 1998. Calgary, Alberta.