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Conservationists fear development will scare away birds in St-Laurent
Environmentalists and bird lovers are worried about the future of several bird species if the Technoparc Montréal industrial park in St-Laurent proceeds with a plan to develop part of a wetlands that’s...
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Kirkland questioned on policy for wildlife and stray pets
Kirkland residents highlighted concerns about keeping wild plants, animals and errant pets in check at a council meeting on Aug. 1. The city responded to a few risky incidents involving a coyote this...
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Kirkland man shaken after coyote encounter
Petro Rizos was checking the air pressure in his truck tires Wednesday when he felt something scratch his lower back. He spun around and found himself face to face with a growling coyote. “I had a...
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Victor Schukov: Let’s not lose sleep over a coyote sighting
The ado over the recent coyote sighting in Kirkland puzzles me on several levels. For one thing, to hear some people talk about it, you would think it was no less dramatic than a polar bear ripping...
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Lady the runaway ball python evades capture
Lady the slippery snake has turned into something of a social media star as she continued to evade animal-rescue experts for a seventh day Thursday. The escaped ball python was thought to have holed up...
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Missing python still missing
The Verdun borough says it hopes to locate Lady the ball python soon and indicated the search will not end until she is caught. Animal rescue teams from Animex were still looking on Friday for the...
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Search for missing python continues two weeks after its escape
A pet python is still on the lam nearly two weeks after its disappearance from its owner’s residence on 1st Ave. in Verdun. “We are waiting for someone to see it,” said Ariane Duplessis, a biologist...
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Don't feed Canada geese in Vaudreuil; you'll be fined
Vaudreuil-Dorion council on Monday outlawed the feeding of wild geese in the municipality in an attempt to clean up its shoreline. At least two city parks along the banks of Lake of Two Mountains are...
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Cougars in Quebec? No proof, ministry says
Jacques Nadeau chuckled when a reporter told him there had been a cougar sighting in St-Lazare recently. Nadeau is spokesperson for Quebec’s Ministère des forêts de la faune et des parcs. He said there...
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Rescued otters makes splashy return to Zoo-ti-ful new digs in Ste-Anne's
After a two-year absence, the hugely popular otters are back at the newly revamped Ecomuseum Zoo in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. The Ecomuseum officially unveiled its new River Otter habitat on Tuesday: a...
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