by MarketSmart | Feb 7, 2025
The first time I saw musk oxen was at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve just outside of Whitehorse. Impossibly shaggy and low to the ground, they looked like (and are!) something out of prehistory, when the earth was young. I was surprised at how small they are, how...
by MarketSmart | Feb 7, 2025
When I was 5 years old, my father bought me the World Wildlife Fund sticker book from the grocery store. It was a fantastic book as it not only had the sticker factor that every young kid loves, it also had tons of information about animals, the environment and even...
by MarketSmart | Feb 7, 2025
Back in the 1950s-70s, my parents’ cottage up north of Huntsville, was on Bear Lake, with not great number of cottages and one entire side of the 3 mile lake total wilderness. The wilderness educated us with the miracles of flora and fauna. We played in it and...
by MarketSmart | Feb 7, 2025
Animals, nature, is what we need to breathe, to exist. Nature has its own language with us giving us that room away from all hardships in life, an escape really. Nurtures our emotional health and mental well being. Each of us holds a special uniqueness with it making...
by MarketSmart | Feb 6, 2025
2 years after high school graduation I set out from Vancouver to sail to Australia where a zoo keeper asked me to assist him in feeding the animals. So, I got to hold a Koala and to this day 64 years later I have not forgotten the experience and that set me up to...