All Stories
We’re Moving!
We have some big news: next month CPAWS Yukon will be moving to a new home! This relocation is the culmination of several years of work from our team, and we believe it is the right move to set us up for ongoing success. But of course, we’re feeling a lot of mixed emotions about it. [Learn more]
How do we give a voice to the wilderness?
Every day our team makes decisions about what goes into our public messaging and in this post, I want to give you a peak behind the curtain, to show you how our team goes about transforming words and ideas into meaningful change. [Learn more]
Take A Journey Through The Dawson Region
For many, Dawson is synonymous with the Klondike Gold Rush, but there’s more to the Dawson Region. It’s the homeland of the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, who have stewarded the land since long before people arrived with pickaxes and gold pans. [Learn more]
Calculating the future of the Indian River
What does the future of the Indian River look like?
That question was at the front of my mind as I read the draft land use plan for the Dawson Region. One number jumped out—5%. That’s the amount of disturbance the land use plan would permit in the landscape management unit that encompasses the Indian River, and the rest of the goldfields. 5% may not sound like much disturbance, but when you look closely it’s shocking. [Learn more]
Op-Ed: Yukon at a crossroads with Fortymile caribou herd
The Fortymile caribou are one of those animals that everything else seems to revolve around. Current land use planning for the herd’s range offers an opportunity to keep the volatile population on the right path. [Learn more]
A Summer Spent at CPAWS
As I reflect on what I have gotten up to in these past few months, I am grateful for the opportunity to have had the position of conservation intern over the summer. Here you will find out how I spent my summer at CPAWS and what I was able to do. [Learn more]
Protect the Peel digital archives project – a retrospective
How many documents were created during a campaign that took more than twenty five years to complete? The answer is: enough to almost fill up the entire basement of our office! [Learn more]
A Q&A with Chris Rider on the climate crisis
Recently, Yukon’s French language newspaper L’aurore Boréale interviewed our Executive Director, Chris Rider about to discuss the Climate Crisis.
The interview was done in English, then translated to French for the newspaper. We are posting the English language version, with permission from Sophie Delaigue and L’aurore Boréale. [Learn more]
Conservation from the Couch
Even if you can’t undertake a marathon trek across the tundra, you can still support conservation. Writing letters and filling out engagement surveys are incredibly valuable. I call this “conservation from the couch”. These types of actions have advanced conservation efforts across the globe, including protection of the Porcupine caribou. [Learn more]
Thoughts & Key Recommendations on Whitehorse’s Official Community Plan
The City of Whitehorse is taking feedback on the Official Community Plan until August 31st. Here, three local environmental non-profit organizations outline their key recommendations to the City, as it plans for the next twenty years as the Wilderness City. [Learn more]