These locally designed and manufactured t-shirts are available at all Plum locations.
Two dollars of the purchase price of each Limited Edition Canadian Threatened Species T-Shirts will be donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Ursus maritimus • Polar Bear
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The polar bear lives in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth, migrating across the Arctic ice sheets and swimming the frigid polar waters. This powerful bear hunts seal along the shifting edge of sea ice, and gives birth in snowy dens dug into the ice. But this habitat is seriously threatened as sea ice shrinks due to a changing climate. Scientists are warning that two-thirds of the polar bears could disappear by 2050 if the Arctic continues to melt. Other threats include pollution, poaching, and industrial disturbances, and hunting could become a threat if populations are not well managed. |
Chordeiles minor • Common Nighthawk
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The common nighthawk is most often seen flying at dusk or dawn in search of insects to eat. Its erratic, almost bat-like flying has earned it the nickname “Bullbat”, and makes it easy to identify for anyone spending time outdoors on a warm summer evening. The common nighthawk can be found in most areas of North America, but in parts of eastern Canada this floppy-flying bird is disappearing at a dramatic rate. Likely causes for this population decline include habitat loss and the indiscriminate use of pesticide.
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Contopus cooperi • Olive-sided Flycatcher
Chaetura pelagica • Chimney Swift
Icteria virens • Yellow Breasted Chat
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Migratory songbirds make incredible journeys each year, travelling tens of thousands of kilometres between their summer breeding ground in the north and their over-wintering habitat in the south. Many songbird species are facing steep population decline as more and more of their habitat is altered by industrial development, pollution and a changing climate. |
Copablephanron fuscum • Sand Verbena Moth
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The sand verbena moth lives exclusively on coastal sand dunes on the plant after which it takes its name, the yellow sand-verbena. In Canada, this species is found only along the sandy coasts of south-western British Columbia—a habitat so heavily impacted by invasive species, development and the use of sand dunes for recreation that the sand verbena moth is teetering on the brink of extinction.
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