Manitoban Boreal Forest
January 19th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is cheering the January 11th announcement that a large area of Manitoba’s Boreal Forest will be protected.
The vast area on the east side of Lake Winnipeg is home to the Bloodvein First Nation. They worked with the province to develop a land use plan that is now officially solidified in...
Tags: boreal forest, CPAWS, Manitoba
January 17th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
On January 16th, the World Bank and Google announced an agreement aimed at improving the ability of developing countries to access a web-based community mappin...
Tags: Google, Humanitarian, map, World Bank
January 9th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
In 1969, Vancouver Island grew 70% of its own food. Today, they grow less than 5%, according to the Wilderness Committee. And this week the Wilderness Committ...
Tags: agriculture, Food, Wilderness Committee
January 4th, 2012 by Alison Wheatley in General
One major environmental issue left over from 2011 is that Canada stepped out of the Kyoto Protocol. This might lead people to move ahead without the fe...
December 5th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Just as people sometimes adjust their tone of voice to be heard in cities, researchers have found that songbirds do as well. In a study published in No...
Tags: bird songs, Smithsonian
Nanoose Bay Forest Logging
December 1st, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
The Wilderness Committee just sent out a press release stating that Timberwest’s contract to buy logs from Nanoose Bay Forest — one of the last remaining parcels of rare, endangered Coastal Douglas-fir forests — appears to exceed ...
Tags: forest, logging, Wilderness Committee
UK and Tar Sands Oil
November 28th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Today 50 Greenpeace UK activists blocked their Department for Transport with two immobilised cars parked in front of the entrances and a giant handshake. This is because the UK government is trying to scuttle legislation that will block tar sands oil fro...
Tags: Greenpeace, tar sands, UK
Cook Inlet Beluga Whales
November 23rd, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Good news came out of Alaska recently when the Center for Biological Diversity announced that the State of Alaska’s challenge to “Endangered” status of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales had been rejected.
On November 21 of this year, a federal judge rejected ...
Fish Lake Revisited
November 8th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
The Wilderness Committee released a statement yesterday expressing deep disappointment in the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s announcement that it will agree to Taseko Mines Ltd.’s request for a new environmental review of its propose...
Tags: environmental, Fish Lake, mine, Wilderness Committee
Fish Lake Update
November 1st, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Taseko’s revised proposal for a Fish Lake gold and copper mine would be even more of “an environmental disaster” than the company’s original proposal and must be turned down for federal public review, ten environmental groups said recently, re...
Tags: environmental, Fish Lake, mine, Sierra Club
In a rare bit of good news from the environmental activism front, the Wilderness Committee recently announced that Chief Marilyn Baptiste, leader of Xeni Gwet’in community of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, would receive the 2011 Eugene Rogers Environmental Award. Chief Baptiste was a passionate activist on behal...
DSF Virtual Classroom
October 25th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
As many as 12,000 Canadian high school students and their teachers will have real-time access to renowned scientist Dr. David Suzuki on November 1 and 2 through a new virtual classroom experience. The virtual program is being delivered through a pa...
Tags: classroom, David Suzuki, virtual
Court Saves Woodland Caribou
August 10th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Court cases play an important role in wildlife conservation. When people disregard the needs of wildlife, such as Canada’s Environment Minister deciding to not recommend emergency protection for woodland caribou, court cases can right the wrong.
Thus Ecojustic...
Tags: caribou, Conservation, court, CPAWS, Ecojustice, Species at Risk
20 Years of Research
August 9th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
The Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research (IWWR) has been developing and sustaining a premier program of research for Ducks Unlimited’s conservation programs for 20 years now.
In March 1991, Ducks Unlimited (DU) scientists had realized that the organizati...
Tags: Conservation, Ducks Unlimited, research
Dirty Water Bill
August 8th, 2011 by Michelle Ly in General
Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favour of HR 2018, largely along partisan lines, by a count of 239 to 184. The Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, nicknamed the “dirty water bill” by many concerned environmental groups, rolls back many safeguards that were part of 1972’s Clean Wate...
