Judith Lavoie
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@LavoieJudith Judith Lavoie is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia. Lavoie covered environment and First Nations stories for the Victoria Times Colonist for more than 20 years and is now working as a freelancer. She previously worked on newspapers in New Brunswick, Cyprus, England and the Middle East. Lavoie has won four Webster awards and has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award and a Michener Award.
Stories by Judith Lavoie
Life after Chinook: a West Coast fishing community looks to reinvent itself
16 min. readIn the small fishing community of Port Renfrew, B.C., people who have made their livelihoods...
UN says Canada isn’t doing enough to save Wood Buffalo National Park
'Considerably more effort' needed to combat the affects of climate change, upstream industrial developments and...
First Nations lead transition to conservation-based economy in Great Bear Rainforest, Haida Gwaii
The grizzly bears of Glendale Cove are the stars that draw international visitors to Knight...
How scientists are giving Fraser River salmon a fresh chance
A subtle transformation to century-old jetty that has made life unnaturally difficult for chinook salmon...
Imperial Metals’ plan to drill in Skagit headwaters spawns cross-border backlash
On the edge of B.C.’s popular Manning Park is an unprotected patch of land called...
Three oilsands companies surrender land for new Alberta park to be co-managed with First Nations
The newly established Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park will help buffer Canada’s endangered Wood Buffalo...
Bringing back the trees to bring back the salmon
Facing devastating declines in salmon stocks, conservationists in Clayoquot Sound are taking a ground-up approach...
B.C. community raises $50K to save a beloved forest, but it may be too little, too late
Caught off guard by a plan to log more than 600 hectares of treasured local...
Canada delays insecticide ban as study finds 40% of insects on verge of extinction
Neonics were banned in the European Union last year
