Across
- 3. Sleek fur-bearer with a masked face and nimble paws
- 5. A key threat to urban fur-bearers, especially at night
- 7. Common method of long-distance animal movement across territory
- 8. Nocturnal fur-bearer famous for black-and-white stripes
- 10. A type of trap The Fur-Bearers wants to ban
- 13. Canada's national animal and a builder of wetlands
- 14. Type of weasel whose fur turns white in winter
- 15. Spring blooms that attract pollinators and people alike
- 18. Act of losing winter fur as weather warms
- 19. Common backyard mammal who "chirps" to communicate
- 20. Often mistaken for beavers, these aquatic rodents have long tails
- 22. Municipal rules that can help prevent negative encounters with wildlife
- 24. Doing this with dogs can prevent negative encounters with wildlife
- 25. Critically important to an ecosystem but sometimes overlooked
- 26. Environmental movement urging less lawn, more biodiversity
- 27. Tree-dwelling fur-bearer known for hoarding nuts
Down
- 1. A safe place for wildlife to raise their young, sometimes found under decks
- 2. Warm weather brings this biting bug (and fur-bearer annoyance)
- 4. Fur-bearer with a long body and a love of sliding on snow or mud
- 6. Certified and licensed experts help injured or orphaned wildlife through this process
- 8. Planting native ____ helps fur-bearers and pollinators
- 9. Our Living With Wildlife campaign aims to improve this in communities
- 10. Animals who are active at dawn and dusk
- 11. A baby fox is called this
- 12. They "play dead" when threatened
- 16. This wild feline has ear tufts and snowshoe-like paws
- 17. Soft fur, long ears, and a major baby boom in spring
- 21. Doing this with wildlife can vastly change their behaviours and put them at risk
- 22. Pollinating insect crucial to spring blooms
- 23. Season of new growth and baby animals
- 27. These can be built to help wildlife cross roads