Parks in the dark
Investigation reveals publicly funded Parks Canada staff and scientists are still not free to speak...
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.
Investigation reveals publicly funded Parks Canada staff and scientists are still not free to speak...
Plant life in the tundra may be moving slowly, but for some species it’s a...
Canada has an important issue that British land-owners and ramblers never faced — the question...
Commitment of $27.5 million for Canada's largest national park will boost staffing, but will it...
Indigenous communities living downstream of the Alberta oilsands say regulatory processes favour industry, creating a...
Progress has been slow since UNESCO monitors visited the 44,807 square kilometre park at the...
The agreement will help protect Canada’s Northern Shelf bioregion, which includes the north and central...
International officials are warning the Canadian government not enough is being done to protect the...
After almost three decades of planning, the fate of a 6000-bed luxury ski resort in...
In April 2013, a group of Guatemalan farmers, among them Adolpho Augustin Garcia, converged outside the front entrance of Vancouver-based Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine. Located...
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