Loon chick counts fell significantly in most regions studied; Prairie and Atlantic populations saw among the steepest declines
The study analyzed breeding data from 3,421 lakes over roughly three decades, half from volunteer observations in the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey.
CBC reports that, in all cases, the losses are propelled by human activity.
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A continent-wide cause with region-specific damage is the hardest kind of environmental story to act on: the lever is broad, the wound is local.
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The local detail is not automatic: half the lake data came from a long-running citizen-science effort.