Alberta makes conservation history with new protected areas in boreal forest
Total protected area is 1.3 million hectares — more than twice the size of Vancouver...
Canada is home to some of the largest and most intact wilderness in the world and yet only a very small proportion of those areas are legally protected. Canada recently signed on to a target to protect 17 per cent of land and 10 per cent of oceans by 2020 under the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
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.
Total protected area is 1.3 million hectares — more than twice the size of Vancouver...
Despite not yet receiving a final approval for drilling, BP Canada is in the process...
On a certain level, Vivian Krause and her cadre are right when they accuse Canadian...
One year ago, after scathing reports by international agencies, the federal government promised to better...
From the historic agreement that created the Great Bear Rainforest to B.C.’s Dasiqox Tribal Park...
The Trudeau government committed an unprecedented $1.3 billion in Tuesday’s Budget 2018 to protect land...
Canada’s fishery laws are back — well, on the first step to being back, at...
Time is running out for the remaining 76 orcas that make up B.C.’s Southern Resident...
Sharks, sea turtles, corals, wolffish — the 1,200 kilometre Laurentian Channel off the southwest coast...
Many of us think we know what electronic waste is because we wonder what to do with devices we no longer want or need. It’s...
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