Canada’s ecosystem hotspots: Rockies, Hudson Bay among areas flagged for protection
Ottawa has big ambitions but little research when it comes to setting aside the most...
Canada is home to some of the largest and most intact wilderness in the world, yet only a very small proportion of those areas are legally protected areas. Canada recently signed on to a target to protect 17 per cent of land and 10 per cent of oceans by 2020, but hasn’t met that goal yet.
What land is protected and what isn’t has significant implications for natural resource industries, species at risk, the protection of water and the recognition of Indigenous rights and title.
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Ottawa has big ambitions but little research when it comes to setting aside the most...
The precarious state of the Jasper herds is a glaring example of what happens when...
Ottawa announced $60 million to protect Canada’s largest national park after the UN warned it...
The Alberta government now says new and existing partnerships mean 170 sites will remain protected,...
The Xenaksiala Elder survived residential school and went on to lead the battle to protect...
When zero fish showed up for a winter count in the Gold River on Vancouver...
Federal partnership to aid Indigenous-led monitoring and research of 24,000 hectares of remote Arctic islands...
The Seal River is Manitoba’s only major waterway that hasn’t been dammed — and five...
Valuable, roadless wilderness in the Dawson region could become protected under a new land use...
In a rebuke to Canada, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed regret that work continues on the Coastal GasLink...
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