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Environment, Tourism

Summer with the Friends of Cortes Island

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The Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) has a very full summer calendar for 2026. 

Their  events program started Monday June 28 with Misty Isles, and the Secret Shelf Exploration. Executive Director Helen Hall recently explained, “That’s a guided visit to a really amazing intertidal area off southern Cortes. People will get the chance to explore by snorkel and learn all about the marine environment there.” It was fully booked, and unfortunately, those who might have liked to go along have now missed the opportunity.

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Animals

The Quadra Project: Biological Wonders – Part 3

Click here to access part one of this series and here for part two .

• A species of weaver ant found from India to northern Australia
(Oecophylla smaragdina) makes its nests by curling leaves into loops.
The leaves, however, are too stiff for any single ant to accomplish this feat. To solve this problem, the ants form a chain of up to 17 individuals. Using their mandibles, each ant grabs the abdomen of the previous ant, and they all pull together to bend the leaves. Using this tug-of-war strategy, the ants are able to pull up to 100 times their individual body weight (New Scientist, 23 August, 2025).

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Animals, Nature

The Quadra Project: Biological Wonders – Part 2

Below are seven biological wonders that should help to confirm the sophisticated intelligence of nature. These are merely a sample of what we are discovering about the animals and plants that share this planet with us, a reminder that is particularly appropriate since our behaviour has initiated the sixth major extinction event in Earth’s history.

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