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Feedback Results 2019
Written by: Adil Darvesh, Communications Coordinator
Introduction
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?” We felt it was important to ensure that in our efforts to reach new audiences, we weren’t alienating our core supporters who have helped propel us to being one of the many conservation leaders in the Yukon.
Prior to this survey, there were no records of a formalized survey for supporters to provide feedback. In-person conversations and/or emails sent to info@cpawsyukon.org were the main ways that supporters got in touch with CPAWS staff.
CPAWS Yukon is also undergoing some campaign-related changes. For many years, we focused on protecting as much of the Peel Watershed as possible. ‘Protect the Peel’ and ‘CPAWS’ has even become synonymous to some supporters. As we shift to different campaigns, specifically protecting the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and the Dawson Regional Land Use Plan, it’s crucial that we take what worked from our successful Peel Watershed campaign and improve on what didn’t.
Some points to keep in mind:
- There was a random draw for a prize from CPAWS Yukon. The winner would get to choose from some of our merchandise
- Survey was sent to CPAWS supporters and people who regularly engage with us and our work
Discussion
There is an assumption that everyone who filled out the survey is a CPAWS supporter. The questionnaire link was shared via the CPAWS Yukon Facebook page and our internal e-newsletter. While it’s safe to assume our mailing list and Facebook page is comprised of environmentally conscious people, the survey URL could have been shared beyond that to non-supporters as well. From the results, however, it’s abundantly clear that survey respondents are happy with the communication methods that are currently in place.
One of the most liked aspects of our communications are timely updates and visibility on social media. This is an important part of our advocacy work highlighted by the 2600+ submissions during final consultations on the Peel Watershed Final Recommended Plan. Ensuring that this continues is crucial for successful conservation throughout the Yukon.
Note: Our average e-mail open rate is 25.9% and click rate is 2.69%. Average open rate for non-profits is 24.11% and click rate is 2.57% according to MailChimp. (https://mailchimp.com/resources/email-marketing-benchmarks/)
There’s often a fine line between keeping supporters updated, and sending too many messages and becoming a nuisance. There were a few respondents who felt our frequency of messaging was too high, but the majority were happy. With 39 total respondents, however, another iteration of this survey should be done with a larger sample size. Of those 39 respondents, 51.3% wanted monthly newsletters with breaking news as it occurs. This falls in line with what we at CPAWS Yukon think is an appropriate amount.
The type of content is also important in how well received our messaging is. The Peel Watershed and the Porcupine caribou herd were the top ranked issues for respondents, followed closely by Climate Change. It’s a safe bet that ensuring our messaging relates to one of those topics will result in some form of action being taken. The affinity towards the Peel and the Porcupine caribou is most likely a result of the time put into sharing the importance of these issues. Future campaigns will need effort to share the stories and importance of the land and wildlife that we are campaigning for. Few people chose “Conservation at large” as an issue that mattered most to them. While this doesn’t mean that the majority of people aren’t interested in conservation at a high level, it could mean that they’re more likely to be engaged in topics that affect them or people they are close to directly (i.e. people affected by land use planning in the Peel, or people who are affected by changes in the Porcupine caribou herd.)
Based on the responses from this survey, it can be determined that supporters are generally happy with the communication we’ve done thus far. Keeping people engaged and providing an opportunity for action should continue to be a key aspect to our communication and campaign strategies overall. Ensuring we continue to find a way to communicate how specific issues will relate to people directly will also play a large role in ensuring conservation success in the Yukon.
Some supporters also don’t live in Whitehorse, where many of our events generally take place. Finding a way to include people in communities to participate to some degree in an event may be of interest in future event planning.
Going forward, it’s recommended to stay the course and continue engaging supporters as best we can. Whether it’s sharing on social media or through e-mails, supporters are interested in staying updated. It would be worthwhile to continue a trend of getting feedback from supporters after campaigns. This would give us an opportunity to continue improving, and allowing supporters an opportunity to express what works for them.
Final Recommendations
- Keep supporters updated on campaign status, especially if it’s already a hot topic
- Include opportunities for taking action as much as possible
- Share the successes and let supporters see the results of their efforts
- Use social media, emails and various other forms of communication to spread your message
- Positive messaging works better than aggressive or negative comments
- Create an option to opt-out of direct mail if desired, or create an option for opt-in digital only
- Provide ability for more options in questions, or use questions that prompt more feedback in future surveys
- If using a giveaway as incentive to complete a survey, a gift card or voucher for a local business that aligns with our values might be more of a draw than our CPAWS merchandise, especially if supporters already own CPAWS merchandise
The Yukon urgently needs off-road vehicle regulations
Written by Malkolm Boothroyd, Campaigns Coordinator
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.
The Yukon government’s proposed regulatory framework focuses on the creation of ORV Management Areas. It’s a start, but still a patchwork approach. ORV Management Areas could provide effective protections in some areas, but shouldn’t be the Yukon’s sole regulatory tool. The Yukon must find ways to protect the alpine, wetlands and backcountry — on a territory-wide scale.
CPAWS Yukon generally supports the Yukon government’s approach, but emphasizes the need for tools beyond ORV Management Areas. For example, the Yukon could use the Territorial Lands Act to address the proliferation of ORV trails, and use its wetland policy (currently being developed) to restrict the use of ORVs within sensitive wetland ecosystems. We urge the Yukon government to protect the entirety of the territory’s alpine from ORV damage, possibly by designating all alpine areas within a single elevation-based ORV Management Area.
If you agree with us, please use the space provided in the Yukon government’s ORV questionnaire to advocate for additional measures to protect our alpine, wetlands and backcountry. Have your say at: https://engageyukon.ca/en/2019/regulating-road-vehicles-yukon.
Op-Ed: Do endangered species endanger industries?
Written by Malkolm Boothroyd | Mar 21, 2019
Photo by Malkolm Boothroyd, a collared pika (a species of special concern) in the Ruby Range.
The Yukon needs species at risk legislation.
Read the full editorial as published in the Yukon News on March 21st, 2019.
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Op-Ed: Do endangered species endanger industries?
Miners and prospectors are endangered species, and there should be an open season on environmentalists. I’m paraphrasing a comment I read online after CPAWS Yukon called on the Yukon government to write species at risk legislation.
Calls for strengthening environmental laws are often met with the same reaction — that environmental protections destroy jobs and immobilize resource extraction industries in tangles of red tape. It’s a storyline that’s especially prevalent around endangered species. Logging companies can’t clear-cut forests because of spotted owls. Protecting salmon would shut down mines.
Both the U.S. government and the Ontario government are making similar arguments as they attempt to strip key protections from their respective endangered species acts. The Ontario government references “barriers to economic development” as it suggests weakening habitat protections and opening loopholes that could delay recovery actions. One proposed amendment to the U.S. Endangered Species Act would water down protections for species threatened, but not yet endangered. Another amendment would allow officials to consider economic factors when determining whether species are imperilled — potentially giving industry lobbyists influence over decisions that should be based on science.
There’s a reason for the dilemma between protecting species and protecting industries. It’s because humans have pushed so many species to the brink. We’re careening towards the earth’s sixth mass extinction. Species are vanishing between one hundred and one thousand times faster than the natural rate of extinction. Dire circumstances demand bold action.
Last week CPAWS Yukon released a report, explaining why we believe the territory should enact species at risk legislation of its own. Current federal and territorial laws aren’t sufficient to protect the Yukon’s biodiversity. Canada’s Species at Risk Act has little power outside of federal lands, meaning it does not apply on the vast majority of land in the Yukon. Meanwhile the Yukon’s Wildlife Act applies to just five percent of species. Standalone species at risk legislation would give the Yukon the tools necessary to protect our most vulnerable animals and plants.
In the Yukon we have the luxury of being proactive. Like much of the north, we have not yet experienced the breadth of biodiversity loss that much of the planet has. If the Yukon enacts laws that protect species before they are critically endangered, then industries shouldn’t fear lawsuits or stop work orders over species at risk.
It’s even possible that lack of territorial legislation could cause industries unnecessary confusion in the future. The current gaps in legislation could lead to a foreseeable situation where the Yukon government is forced to adapt an existing law beyond its intended purpose to provide emergency protection for a species, causing complications for everybody involved. Far from making miners and prospectors endangered species, territorial species at risk legislation would provide them with more certainty. Protecting species that need help — while also creating clearer sets of rules — should be something we all can agree on.
The online commenter who recommended an open season on environmentalists missed one easy critique of protecting species at risk. It’s the question: who cares? Couldn’t the world do without the spiked saxifrage and the yellow-banded bumble bee? Maybe. But there’s an adage in ecology — take one rivet out of an airplane and it will still fly. But continue removing rivets and eventually the plane will fall from the sky. Species, and the roles and relationships they carry, are the rivets that hold ecosystems together.
I’m in awe when I think of the quirky adaptations that animals and plants have found to flourish on this planet. How is it that newly-hatched semipalmated sandpipers can fly from the Arctic tundra all the way to the shores of South America — without any guidance from their parents? When caterpillars weave themselves into cocoons, do they know they’ll grow shimmering wings and emerge as butterflies? Every time a species vanishes, our planet loses part of what makes it so special.
Many of the Yukon’s ecosystems are largely intact, but we can’t take it for granted. The chance to protect our species and ecosystems while they are still relatively healthy won’t last forever. CPAWS Yukon is calling on the Government of Yukon to enact species at risk legislation. If you agree our ecological identity is worth protecting, please do so too.
Yukoners overwhelmingly support permanent protection of Peel Watershed
February 27, 2019 (Whitehorse, YT) – CPAWS Yukon and the Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) are pleased to see an overwhelming call for stronger protection in the Peel Regional Land Use Plan What We Heard Report released yesterday.
The report breaks down the 2,674 email, letter, and questionnaire submissions during the final consultations. We are pleased to see that the public has spoken and over 96.4% of people asked for at least the implementation of the Final Recommended Plan (which calls for 55% permanent protection, 25% interim protection). 64.5% of people asked for protection to be stronger than in the Final Recommended Plan.
Over the past 20 years, CPAWS Yukon and YCS have been advocating for permanent protection of this unspoiled landscape that spans over 68,000 km2 – about 14% of the entire Yukon. Home to iconic northern wildlife such as grizzly bears, wolves, moose, caribou, and lynx, the Peel Watershed provides a much needed sanctuary that is integral for plants, animals, and humans to thrive.
The landmark victory at the Supreme Court of Canada in December 2017 (by appellants First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation, CPAWS Yukon, and YCS) provided the public with this opportunity to exercise their right – as laid out in the Umbrella Final Agreement – to help decide the future of this landscape through final consultations on the Final Recommend Plan for the Peel Watershed.
Now that consultations are complete, CPAWS Yukon and YCS hope that Yukon policy- and decision-makers will act on the public desire for a protected Peel Watershed as they finalize the Peel Watershed Land Use Plan.
“We’re thrilled that so many people participated in the final consultations. It’s clear that Yukoners want to see the strongest possible protection for the Peel Watershed, and Yukon government has a great opportunity to show that they’re listening.” – Chris Rider, Executive Director, CPAWS Yukon
“Climate change and industrial development are threats to biodiversity and the health of the land in the Yukon and across the globe. Protecting wildlife and wild places like the Peel Watershed is the key to our shared future.” – Dr. Mike Walton, Executive Director, Yukon Conservation Society
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Contacts
Adil Darvesh, Communications Coordinator, CPAWS Yukon
adarvesh@cpawsyukon.org, 867-393-8080 x9
Julia Duchesne, Outreach and Communications Director, YCS
outreach@yukonconservation.org
Contacts for quotes
David Loeks, Former Chair of the Peel Commission
867-633-5470, loeks@northwestel.net
Kalin Pallett, President of Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon (WTAY)
867-335-6469, kalin@eddyline.ca
Donald Reid, Conservation Zoologist – Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
867-456-7556, dreid@wcs.org
Google Drive folder with images
https://drive.google.com/open?
The ATAC Road to Rau would transform the Beaver River Watershed
Header Image: Dusk on Hanson Lakes. The Hanson Lakes sit just west of the start point of the proposed road. Randi Newton
Written by: Randi Newton, Conservation Coordinator
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. In May 2017, YESAB recommended that Yukon Government give ATAC Resources, a mining exploration company, the go-ahead to build a 65 km mining road to access the Tiger Gold deposit on its Rau property. The region’s wild creatures, healthy landscapes, and clear waters are at risk.
ATAC’s proposed Road to Rau (dotted in black) leads to mining claims (red) that stretch to the border of the Northwest Territories, far beyond the Beaver River Watershed planning boundary. The road could transform this unspoiled wilderness.
Fortunately, the Beaver River Watershed Land Use Plan – now at the very beginning stages – is a chance to protect the wildlife, habitat, and intact ecosystems that give life to the watershed. We can still ensure that sustainability is at the heart of all decision-making. The Planning Committee is hosting a public meeting in Whitehorse on Wednesday, Feb. 6th (details below), and meetings have already taken place in Mayo and Keno. Show up to let the committee know that Yukoners care about protecting the watershed’s wildlife and wilderness.
Beaver River Watershed Land Use Plan public meeting
February 6th, 6 – 8 PM
Multi-Purpose Room, Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, 1171 First Avenue
Whitehorse
How did we get here and why is the plan so important?
YESAB’s decision to recommend approval of the 65 km Road to Rau stunned many Yukoners. The decision largely ignores the significant impacts on fish and wildlife identified by the Department of Environment and a contracted wildlife expert. Approving such a long road for a mining project still in the exploration phase was unprecedented. For context, the proposed road is only 8 km shorter than the drive from downtown Whitehorse to Carcross.
The proposed route cuts through habitat for moose, grizzly bears, salmon, and scores of other wildlife. The science of road ecology clearly shows these species will be harmed by things like habitat loss, road avoidance, and overhunting. If built, the road will cross 73 rivers and streams, including spawning and rearing grounds for salmon and Dolly Varden char. Only 8 crossings are bridged and, alarmingly, culverts or fords are proposed for the remaining 65. Sedimentation, habitat destruction and the obstruction of fish movement are big concerns.
Despite these concerns, we have a second chance to get things right and maintain a functioning wild landscape for the wildlife that depend on it. Before road construction can be authorized, Yukon Government and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun agreed that a land use plan for the Beaver River Watershed must be in place. This process is now at the very beginning stage. Getting the land use plan right is critically important because the future impacts of the road extend well beyond the road itself. Construction of the road could ultimately transform the entire watershed from unspoiled wilderness to a forever-scarred mining district.
Let me explain.
Right now, the Beaver River Watershed is largely undisturbed. However, Yukon’s mining recorder shows that the watershed is on the brink of change. A cascade of quartz claims stretch across the entire watershed and beyond, all the way to the border of the Northwest Territories. Quartz claims also extend north, and some are nestled along the Peel Watershed’s southern border. It’s only a matter of time before YESAB faces a torrent of applications to extend the road to these projects. Placer staking is sure to follow. Without a good land use plan in place to set common-sense limits on development and protect the region’s wildlife and wilderness, this single strand of road will lead to a tangled web of development.
What should the Beaver River Watershed Plan include?
While we don’t know much yet about the direction of the Beaver River Watershed land use plan, the future of the region’s wildlife and wilderness rest on a few key things:
- Using traditional knowledge, local knowledge, and conservation science to get a better baseline understanding of the region’s environment and wildlife. For example, right now there are almost no on-the-ground assessments of fish habitat at the proposed ATAC road water crossings.
- Understanding how the proposed 65 km road and future development will impact wildlife populations. For instance, studies show that grizzly bear survival decreases when roads are introduced. We can use modelling to predict how bears in the Beaver River Watershed will be impacted.
- Setting common-sense limits on development. Wildlife needs functioning habitat and we lose wildlife when we put too much development pressure on their habitat.
- Developing a robust system for wildlife monitoring and adaptive management. Decision makers need a way to understand what’s happening on the ground so they can make good decisions.
Only once all of these pieces are in place can we decide if the Road to Rau is right for the region.
How you can help
Come to the public meeting next Wednesday and stay involved throughout the process. The Planning Committee needs to know that you care about the watershed. CPAWS Yukon will stay tuned to the plan and let you know what’s happening.
I read the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on drilling in the Arctic Refuge, so you don’t have to.
Header Image: Ken Madsen
Written by: Malkolm Boothroyd, Campaigns Coordinator
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.
I’ve read (most of) the 756 page statement, so that you don’t have to. The U.S. Government is rushing to authorize oil and gas drilling, and it shows in the shoddiness of its environmental review. Now it’s time for everyone to comment on how terrible the Draft EIS is. CPAWS Yukon has made it easy — you can add your name to our open letter and send it to the Bureau of Land Management with a single click.
Our platform also makes it easy to personalize your letter. If you have time, I’d love for you to add some specifics about why the Draft EIS is so inadequate. As a pointer here are my five biggest problems with the Draft EIS.
- The Draft EIS doesn’t acknowledge Gwich’in communities within Canada when determining which communities would be “appreciably affected” by changes to Porcupine caribou populations or movements. The U.S. Government needs to comprehensively evaluate the social, cultural and health impacts on all Gwich’in communities that rely on the Porcupine caribou herd.
- The Draft EIS downplays how important the Arctic Refuge is for the Porcupine caribou herd, and doesn’t properly address the importance of the Coastal Plain for caribou after they calve. The Draft EIS states that the Porcupine caribou herd would not experience major impacts from drilling, but provides almost no evidence to back up this claim. The Draft EIS fails to provide a quantitative analysis of what could happen to the herd if drilling occurs. Tell the U.S. Government that 100% of the Coastal Plain is critical calving and post-calving habitat for the Porcupine caribou. The U.S. Government must undertake a robust, cautionary and evidence-based approach to studying the impacts of drilling on the Porcupine caribou herd.
- The Porcupine caribou herd is critical for ecosystems, communities and economies across northern Canada. Drilling in the Arctic Refuge could have serious transboundary (cross-border) impacts on Canada. The Draft EIS fails to consider transboundary impacts of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Refuge. The term ‘transboundary’ doesn’t even show up. Canadians need to tell the U.S. Government to comprehensively evaluate the transboundary impacts of drilling in the Arctic Refuge.
- The Draft EIS fails to adequately address cumulative impacts. The cumulative effects assessment on the Porcupine caribou herd is a mere five sentences long, while the polar bear assessment devotes a single sentence to climate change. Tell the U.S. Government that such superficial assessments of cumulative impacts are unacceptable.
- The scenarios offered by the Draft EIS are development, development, or development. Each scenario offered by the U.S. Government opens more of the Arctic Refuge to oil and gas leasing than the minimum required under the tax bill that originally opened the Refuge to drilling. Two scenarios open virtually the entirety of the Coastal Plain to leasing, while the third scenario offers over 1 million acres. The Arctic Refuge is too important for oil drilling, anywhere.
It’s critical that Canadians tell the U.S. Government just how flawed the Draft EIS is. Putting our concerns on the public record will help hold the U.S. accountable to its environmental laws.
Take action here: https://action.cpaws.org/page/35106/action/1
P.S. once you write your comment, you get to see a gallery of adorable baby Arctic animals called “Puffy and Fluffy” 
To learn about the Porcupine caribou herd and their journey, click here.
Peel consultations are over. What’s next?
Header Image: Peter Mather
Written by: Adil Darvesh, Communications Coordinator
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?”.
In the coming weeks, Stantec (the firm responsible for collecting and analyzing the submissions) will release a report highlighting how many submissions were received, and what was said in those submissions. The parties of Na Cho Nyak Dun, Vuntut Gwitchin, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Gwich’in Tribal Council, and the Yukon Government will use this document to help them decide whether they want to accept the Final Recommended Plan as written, make minor modifications to the Final Recommended Plan to accommodate the responses from the submissions, or reject the Final Recommended Plan (which Yukon Government has said won’t happen). CPAWS Yukon and the Yukon Conservation Society have asked that the Final Recommended Plan be improved by protecting 80% of the watershed permanently now (rather than leaving 25% of the protected region to be ‘interim protection’, revisited at a later date).
Once the Plan is finalized, it will become the Peel Watershed Land Use Plan, and work will begin on creating an implementation (management) strategy for the Peel.
CPAWS Yukon and YCS hope that the Yukon Government will also extend the current ban on development and the staking of mineral claims in the Peel Watershed, until management plans have been completed.
Stay tuned for updates from CPAWS Yukon and YCS along the way!
For more information on the Peel Watershed visit www.protectpeel.ca
Peel Watershed Photo Exhibit comes to Whitehorse
July 30, 2018, Whitehorse – The Peel Watershed Portrait Exhibit is showing at the Yukon Arts Centre from August 1-30, with an opening reception from 5-7 pm on August 1. The exhibit is a collaboration between the Yukon Conservation Society, CPAWS Yukon, the First Nation of Na Cho Nyäk Dün, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and the Teetl’it Gwich’in Council, and features some of the many people whose lives are intertwined with the Peel Watershed.
For the exhibit, interviews and photoshoots were conducted in the four communities surrounding the Peel Watershed – Mayo, Dawson City, Old Crow, and Teetl’it Zheh (Fort McPherson) – and Whitehorse. After being shown in Ottawa and the Peel communities, the exhibit is now coming to Whitehorse. It features short excerpts from individual interviews alongside photographs by Cathie Archbould and Peter Mather.
“Not many people understand the importance of the land, ecosystems, and the animals on humanity’s well-being. The people of the North live and breathe this reality,” said Cathie Archbould, the exhibit’s portrait photographer.
“It is pretty hard to go into the Peel and not come back with special images,” said Peter Mather, the exhibit’s landscape photographer. “My hope is always that my work will inspire people from all walks of life to visit and cherish the watershed, its adventures and its people.”
The Peel Watershed is within the traditional territories of the First Nation of Na Cho Nyäk Dün, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and the Teetl’it Gwich’in Council in the neighbouring Northwest Territories. For generations, these First Nations have relied on the watershed for both physical and cultural sustenance. The exhibit highlights some of the many people who care for the land and have fought to protect it.
In recent years, the watershed’s future has been at stake during a lengthy legal battle over the land use planning process. In 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Yukon government must complete meaningful final consultations on a land use plan that protects 80% of the watershed. Since that decisive ruling, the Peel Watershed Planning Commission’s Final Recommended Plan has been under review by the Yukon government. Yukoners will have the opportunity to comment on the final plan during the final consultation period, which is expected to take place in the coming months. Dates have not yet been announced.
The Whitehorse showing of the exhibit is dedicated to the memory of CPAWS Yukon’s founding Executive Director, Juri Peepre. Juri was the driving force behind the early public campaign to protect the Peel Watershed and his legacy will live on through the protection of the lands that he loved so much.
This exhibition is also meant to express eternal gratitude to everyone from the Yukon, Northwest Territories and around the world who has poured passion, time and energy into protecting the Peel Watershed – especially the people of Na Cho Nyäk Dün, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and the Teetl’it Gwich’in Council.
The Peel Watershed Portrait Exhibit is free to the public and open Monday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm, Saturdays 12 pm to 5 pm, August 1-30. Yukoners are encouraged to view the exhibit all month and share their own stories and images on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #ProtectPeel.
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Media Contacts:
Julia Duchesne, Yukon Conservation Society
Outreach & Communications Director
outreach@yukonconservation.org
867-668-5678
Adil Darvesh, CPAWS Yukon
Communications Coordinator
adarvesh@cpawsyukon.org
867-383-8080 x9