Magazines

Canadian Wildlife magazine
Stunning photography. In-depth features. Important issues. And fascinating tales. Canadian Wildlife magazine, and its French counterpart Biosphère, deliver all that and more six times per year. Subscribers explore, celebrate, enjoy and help protect this country’s wilderness. And beyond being a great read, a copy of Canadian Wildlife on the coffee table is a symbol of passion for this country’s great outdoors.

WILD magazine
WILD magazine is filled with fun stories, wacky games, awesome pictures, crazy comics and oodles more info about wildlife in Canada and around the world. Published eight times per year, the country’s premier wildlife publication is aimed at children aged six to 12. It engages kids’ imaginations and inspires an interest in nature.

Your Big Backyard magazine
Packed with wonderful images, easy-to-read stories and fun games and puzzles about wildlife in North America and around the world, Your Big Backyard magazine is sure to get the wee ones (ages three to five) hooked on nature, too. Your Big Backyard is published 10 times per year by the U.S. National Wildlife Federation and is distributed in Canada by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

Newsletters

Bulletin
The Bulletin , distributed in the spring and fall, keeps CWF’s approximately 300,000 donors and supporters up-to-date on the organization’s latest conservation, funding, education, awards and program news. In 2009, more than 600,000 copies of the Bulletin were distributed.

Wildlife Update
Delivered monthly to some 29,000 inboxes, CWF’s monthly e-newsletter, Wildlife Update, is jammed with timely wildlife news, CWF project and issue updates, amazing facts and fantastic photos. Sign up for Wildlife Update today!

Seasonal Gardening Guide
Produced through CWF’s Backyard Habitat Program, the free Seasonal Gardening Guide is a quarterly e-newsletter dedicated to wildlife-friendly gardening. It includes features on gardens, nurseries, creatures and plants, and is loaded with green-thumb gardening tips. Sign up for Seasonal Gardening Guide today!

WILD Education News
Hey, teachers! Make sure you receive your National Wildlife Week and Oceans Day packages, along with other exciting resources produced by CWF’s education experts. Sign up for the WILD Education News e-alerts.

Posters
Wild About Small Mammals , the latest poster in CWF’s Wild About…poster series, boasts full-colour illustrations of 21 of North America’s tiniest mammalian creatures, including its smallest—the pygmy shrew. Learn more about all these species’ habits and habitats, and how you can help protect them. CWF’s Wild About…poster series, which also includes posters on bats, bees, birds, butterflies, flowers and snakes, and is popular with gardeners, wildlife enthusiasts and educators.

In celebration of National Wildlife Week 2009, CWF’s education program produced the Our Home and Native Plants poster, to highlight the thousands of native plant species that provide food and shelter for other Canadian wildlife species.

Water’s worth it was the message of CWF’s education program Rivers to Oceans Week 2009 poster, which encouraged Canadians to discover this country’s watersheds and commemorate the national awareness week for Canada’s waterways.

In preparation for 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, CWF’s education program produced a Biodiversity poster to promote its programs and associated resources for educators.

A series of posters was created to help promote the Quebec-based CWF program Pollinators Habitat Challenge, which aimed to increase awareness about the decline in the number of pollinators and to encourage the creation of new pollinator habitat.

For more information on CWF’s posters, visit: www.cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/posters--handouts/posters.

Guides
CWF’s Wild About Gardening and Education programs offer a range of informational guides. In 2009, the following guide was published:

Shorelines…a festival of life
CWF’s beautifully illustrated Shorelines Habitat Guide, with information on 92 species you can find along Canadian shorelines, was made available to French-speaking Canadians.