Beyond Your Backyard — Lifestyles

Beyond Your Backyard 🍃 "Water for Wildlife Part 3 - Wildfires"

With climate change causing the earth's global temperature to rise by almost 2 degrees, we can expect more and more unprecedented storms and fires to occur in coming years

moose jawSeptember 6, 2018Kimberly J. Epp, Beyond Your Backyard, Water for Wildlife, Wildfires, MJ Independent

Beyond Your Backyard: "Water For Wildlife - Part Two - Heatwaves"

On Saturday August 11th, Moose Jaw became the hottest spot in Canada, reaching a high of 42.3 degrees. If you were melting, you were not the only ones.

moose jawAugust 20, 2018Beyond Your Backyard, Water for Wildlife, Kimberley J Epp

Beyond Your Backyard: Every Day is Family Day for Elephants

…did you know that there is another species on earth that has the most amazing family structure of any other land mammal?

moose jawAugust 6, 2018Kimberly J Epp, Beyond Your Backyard, Elephant herd, feminism

Beyond Your Backyard: Time is Running Out For Lucy

World Elephant Day is coming up on August 12th. How will Canada's loneliest elephant, at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, "celebrate"? With a small pile of mud and a hose?

Beyond Your Backyard: How Fireworks, Balloons and Litter Threaten our Wildlife.

fireworks, for their mere minutes of "Ooh's and Aah's", come at a terrible price for our wildlife, the environment - and even your pets.

moose jawJune 26, 2018How Fireworks, Threaten Wildlife, Kimberly J Epp, Beyond Your Backyard

Beyond Your Backyard. 🍃 "Animals and Their Hiding Places." 🐰

Recently a female Cottontail Rabbit was brought in to Moose Jaw's "Wild and Cared Free Wildlife Rehabilitation". She was a lactating female, shot cruelly and needlessly in the spine with a bb gun.

Beyond Your Backyard: What Rehabbers Do 🦊🐺🐰🐿🦅🐦🦆🦉🐻

Last weekend, I organized a small tour from Moose Jaw to Saskatoon, on behalf of the Moose Jaw Nature Society. We visited the Bandit Ranch Rehab, Living Sky Wildlife Rehab, Beaver Creek Conservation Area - amongst other stops - making for a long but enjoyable day.

Beyond Your Backyard: Save Our Bees! 🐝

Spring has sprung, and so has a lot of new life.

moose jawMay 8, 2018Moose Jaw, MJ Independent, Kimberly J. Epp, Beyond Your Backyard, Save our Bees

Beyond Your Backyard: A Night on Falconry

On Monday, April 23rd, the Moose Jaw Nature Society welcomed former member and falconer, Larry Going as guest speaker.

Beyond Your Backyard: "Free To Be Me" Animal Sanctuary.

This is a tour that never disappoints.