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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]
Feedback Results 2019
The communication feedback survey was conducted between February 8th and February 17th, 2019. Our goal for the survey was to answer the simple question “Is our work being well received by our supporters?” [Learn more]
The Yukon urgently needs off-road vehicle regulations
The Yukon urgently needs proactive off-road vehicle (ORV) regulations to protect the territory’s wildlife, and our alpine, wetlands, and backcountry. Yukoners have been calling for such laws since the 1980s. Now we’re finally seeing regulations in the works. Until April 8th the public can comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed measures. [Learn more]
Op-Ed: Do endangered species endanger industries?
Humans have pushed so many species to the brink. Species are vanishing between 100-1000x faster than the natural rate of extinction. Dire circumstances demand bold action. [Learn more]
The ATAC Road to Rau would transform the Beaver River Watershed
Almost two years ago, a recommendation from the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board (YESAB) cracked the door open for industry to transform the unspoiled wilderness of the Beaver River Watershed, a landscape perched at the Peel Watershed’s southern doorstep. [Learn more]
I read the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on drilling in the Arctic Refuge, so you don’t have to.
Just before the Christmas holidays began, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. While the rest of my family was decorating trees I was reading about pipelines and processing facilities on the fragile Arctic tundra. While my nieces and nephew put out goodies for reindeer, I was thinking about the Porcupine caribou herd — and how they would suffer if drilling was ever allowed in their calving grounds. [Learn more]
Peel consultations are over. What’s next?
It’s taken seven years to get to this point, but we’ve finally reached the end of the consultations on the Peel Watershed Final Recommended Plan. Congratulations to everybody who submitted their comments and participated in this important democratic process! Submissions closed in November, and now many of you may be asking: “What happens next?”. [Learn more]
Stewards of the Yukon
The Wilderness Territory. It’s one of the reasons so many have travelled to the Yukon, and one of the reasons so many have stayed. With that comes the responsibility to maintain and protect the areas that we hold dear. [Learn more]
Encouraged in Anchorage
The fingerprints of the fossil fuel industry cover Anchorage, Alaska. BP logos decorate the airport and Exxon Mobil’s name is carved on the plaques beside commemorative trees. The city’s convention centre sits in the shadow of the ConocoPhillips skyscraper. That’s why I was shocked that nobody from any of the oil companies showed up to the convention centre to testify in favour of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the heart of the Porcupine caribou herd’s calving grounds. [Learn more]
Developing a much needed wetland policy
This spring the Government of Yukon started developing a policy for wetland management in the territory. While it seems long overdue, CPAWS is nonetheless excited to be contributing to the process. We hope to see a robust, conservation-focused policy that will fill a large gap in protecting Yukon’s wetlands and provide land managers with a consistent approach for making decisions. [Learn more]