In the December 2008 issue of Canadian Geographic, we present our annual package of wildlife stories of the year. Writer Candace Savage heads to Guelph, Ont., to get the scoop on the world's first park for bees and photographer Stephen J. Krasemann hides out in the willows in the Yukon to snap shots of a late-autumn grizzly banquet. Writer Heather Pringle reveals what scientists have discovered about a 200-year-old boy pulled from a B.C. glacier. PLUS: see the winners of our first wildlife photo contest and read about Northern Ontario's puzzling forest rings.

Grab an extra pair of mitts, pull on your boots and face Canada's snowy season with a sense of adventure. In this edition of Canadian Geographic Travel trek through the white powdered hills of British Columbia's Glacier National Park with writer Lisa Gregoire and her family on a luxury lodge vacation. Combine exploration and relaxation as you ski, snowshoe and hike along with Jerry and Alexandra Kobalenko on a trip to Quebec's Chic-Chocs Mountain Lodge. Catch the stunning northern lights show in Churchill, MB or catch a fish or two on Ontario's frozen Lake Nipissing. Plus: sample the eats and treats of Banff and Canmore and warm up on the beaches and in the forests of Costa Rica.

Get ready for a trip around the globe — in this issue Canadian Geographic explores the impacts of climate change worldwide. For the first time, we've teamed up with four sister geographic magazines to share unique perspectives on changes in each region. Lisa Gregoire visits Grise Fiord, Nunavut, Canada's most northern community. Kennedy Warne takes us to Tuvalu, a small archipelago in the South Pacific that faces extinction as the shores slowly erode away. Travel to Norway with Chris Turner to explore how carbon taxes are changing behaviour. Visit European vineyards with Charlie Furniss, see the Antarctic Peninsula with Ken Eastwood and discover the drama unfolding around Mount Kilimanjaro.

Take to the trails and discover three great Canadian bike tours. In the next issue of Canadian Geographic Travel, Allen Abel sips and cycles across Niagara, Christy Ann Conlin pedals Nova Scotia's South Shore with her family and Masa Takei rides British Columbia's decommissioned Kettle Valley Railway. Danielle Egan rustles cattle in B.C.'s Cariboo country and Mark Abley explores Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Plus: wind watching, Winnipeg's best and hunting for heritage apples.

Blossoming orchards, warm weather, sandy beaches, lush vineyards: Kelowna, B.C. has it all! Nestled in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Kelowna is becoming one of the fastest growing cities in Canada. Writer Allan Casey explores how the very things drawing people to the area are now at risk as wine, tourism and housing developments explode. In Following Farley writer and biologist Karsten Heuer, along with wife Leanne Allison and son Zev, spend five months travelling across Canada, retracing the steps of author Farley Mowat. Just in time for B.C.'s 150th anniversary, we examine the photography of Frederick Dally, a British Photographer who offered a glimpse into pre-Confederation colonial life.

Plus: Manitoba's east-west hydro debate and the Calgary Stampede caught on camera.

This year's annual environment issue will be printed on wheat straw. It's our message to magazine publishers and pulp-producers alike, that adding agricultural waste to pulp mix can offer farmers a new source of revenue and cut down on the demand of pulp from our boreal forests.

Also, writer Jeff Hull heads into B.C.'s Flathead River Valley and investigates the American discontent with a coal mine proposal near the Montana border. Writer Curtis Gillespie heads to Alberta's Tar Sands to discover what oil companies can do to preserve the area while extracting the coveted oil below. We also celebrate the work of biologists John Smol and Jules Blais, the 2008 Environmental Scientists of the year. PLUS: a pictorial of the new Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area.