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Opportunities for a post COVID-19 world
Every day is still quite surreal for me. Every morning, there’s a split second where I think I’m about to get ready to head into the office, but then come back to reality after a quick peek at my phone. My news feed overflows with pandemic-related stories, which is helpful to stay updated but can sometimes be enough to make you frustrated. [Learn more]
We paddled through the Beaver River Watershed to see what could be lost to road development
This August, CPAWS Yukon’s Randi Newton set off on a 10-day trip with 19 others through the Beaver River Watershed. She went to experience and document the wilderness of the Beaver and Stewart Rivers and share how a road could shape this unspoiled region. [Learn more]
All candidate environmental debate 2019
On October 3rd, 2019, the Yukon Conservation Society teamed up with us at CPAWS Yukon to bring you an all-candidate forum on the environment ahead of this year’s federal election. [Learn more]
Op-Ed: This 65-kilometre resource road planned for Yukon wilderness will serve mines, not communities
Which version of the Yukon do we want to live in? Roads can exacerbate habitat fragmentation and introduce new mineral exploration. [Learn more]
The U.S. Government wants to drill into the Arctic Refuge. We drilled into its environmental review.
The U.S. Government is determined to auction the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge away to the oil industry — but must comply with its own environmental protection laws. For the past eighteen months the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has been racing to complete an environmental review, cutting corners, stifling science and limiting public involvement the whole way through. Late last week the Bureau released its Final Environmental Statement (Final EIS) on the impacts of drilling in the Arctic Refuge. There’s one huge question that remains. Is this legal? [Learn more]
What We Heard: Canadian Perspectives on Drilling in the Arctic Refuge
Over 50% of the Porcupine caribou’s migratory habitat lies within Canadian borders. Yet their critical breeding grounds on the coastal plains lie within U.S. borders and are at risk of being drilled for oil and gas. And it’s not just the caribou. [Learn more]
Op-Ed: The return of the caribou
The community of Old Crow is ecstatic at the sight of the Porcupine caribou herd — one of the last large, healthy, migratory herds. But these caribou are threatened by oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge. [Learn more]
Canada’s Nature Emergency
In Canada we are not immune to the global Nature Emergency. In 2017, WWF Canada found that since 1970 half of all monitored species in Canada have declined. Of those, half declined on average by more than 80%—a shocking collapse of birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. As species decline, the capacity for ecosystems to provide clean air, water, food, climate stabilization, and other essential services declines as well. It is in all our best interests, and in the best interests of future generations, for Canada to take swift and large-scale action to protect and restore nature. Read our 2019 Parks Report for more. [Learn more]
Op-Ed: Foreign funding for local environmental groups no conspiracy
Foreign funding doesn’t mean activism isn’t locally grown. Canada’s economy is connected to the rest of the world. [Learn more]
A History of Collaboration and its Role in Protecting the Arctic Refuge
For over 30 years, efforts by the Gwich’in Steering Committee, conservation groups, and the public have been preventing the Arctic Refuge from drilling. This past March, hundreds of Aboriginal Peoples, Yukoners, and First Nation, Territorial and Federal Government came together and wrote comments to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd. [Learn more]