Whitehorse, Yukon – The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) announced today that it will withhold financing for oil and gas extraction in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. RBC is the first Canadian bank to enact a policy on the Arctic Refuge, following the lead of major banks in the United States and overseas. RBC’s commitment [Learn more]

Whitehorse, Yukon – Today the Government of Yukon released the Yukon Parks Strategy, to guide  the establishment and management of territorial parks. As climate change and habitat degradation threatens wildlife populations across the globe, this strategy provides a framework for lessening these impacts and ensuring that the Yukon’s plants, animals, and landscapes can stay healthy [Learn more]

The Gwich’in Steering Committee and allied groups took Trump’s Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to court today for finalizing an illegal leasing program that would hand over the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to the oil and gas industry. [Learn more]

CPAWS Yukon is the only Canadian organization in the coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups that is working to defend the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas development. CPAWS Yukon has worked with the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Gwich’in Tribal Council to encourage Canadian participation throughout the environmental review process, and to urge Canada’s largest banks to withhold funding for Arctic Refuge drilling. [Learn more]

Whitehorse, YT – New resource road projects could transform the Yukon’s wilderness and jeopardize wildlife—warns a report released today by CPAWS Yukon. Titled Eroding the Yukon’s wild character, the report describes the ecological impacts of roads and the challenges they pose to the Yukon’s environmental review system.  Ecologists have called roads a sleeping giant among [Learn more]

As part of our work, we regularly attend planning and policy meetings, where we sit across the table from people of all walks of life – and this regularly includes our colleagues from the mining sector. That is why we are disappointed to see that Vivian Krause has been invited to speak at the Yukon Geoscience Forum on November 16th. [Learn more]

Today the U.S. Bureau of Land Management released its Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This is the latest move in its push to authorize drilling in the Refuge, a process marked by rushed timelines, the silencing of scientists, and limits on public involvement.  [Learn more]

30 year campaign culminates in signing of Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan Mayo, Yukon – The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Yukon Chapter (CPAWS Yukon) and the Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) are excited for the signing of the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan, and congratulate the Yukon Government, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, First Nation [Learn more]