Media AdvisoryAug 19, 2015The fight to protect the Peel River Watershed returns to the Yukon Supreme Court of Appeal this weekWhat: The Peel River Watershed case returns to court on Thursday, with Thomas R. Berger, O.C., Q.C., and the legal team for the respondents, defending against an appeal by the Yukon Government that the Yukon Supreme Court [Learn more]

July 27, 2015WHITEHORSE, YUKON ¬- On Friday, Peel First Nation youth completed a 500-kilometre paddling journey that began on the Wind River and finished in Fort McPherson. CPAWS Yukon is thrilled to have offered this experience to five youth: Prairie Dawn Edwards, Ehdiitat Gwichin (Aklavik), Robert Neyando, Gwichya Gwichin (Tsiigehtchic), Bobbi Rose Koe, Tetlit Gwichin [Learn more]

Media ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2015 Yukon has progress to make on wilderness protection: CPAWS report Whitehorse – In its latest annual report released in advance of Canada Parks Day, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is calling Canada out for falling behind most other countries in protecting its land and fresh water.  [Learn more]

July 6, 2015 WHITEHORSE, YUKON ¬- CPAWS Yukon is excited to announce the launch of its Youth Leadership canoe trip on the Wind River. The 400-kilometre journey will take five First Nation youth from Peel communities through some of the most pristine, remote wilderness in the world, learning to navigate whitewater, live in the wilds, [Learn more]

April 28, 2015 Maude Barlow Travels to the Yukon to Share a Vision of a Blue Future Whitehorse – Former UN Senior Advisor on Water, Maude Barlow, will travel to Whitehorse on Monday, May 4th to discuss important water issues with Yukoners.  The activist, author, and policy critic will address fifty Yukoners in a morning [Learn more]

Whitehorse – CPAWS Yukon is appalled by the leaked response of Yukon Government to the January 19, 2015 Final Report of the Select Committee on the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing. The committee’s final report makes a convincing case that fracking cannot be done safely and that the Yukon public is strongly opposed to [Learn more]

Media ReleaseFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 26, 2015 Wild and Scenic Film Festival Comes to Whitehorse Whitehorse – One of the largest environmental- and outdoor-pursuit-themed film festivals in North America will be making its Yukon debut on March 5th at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.  CPAWS Yukon has secured the rights to bring the Wild and Scenic [Learn more]

January 19th, 2015 CPAWS Calls for Fracking Moratorium Based on Select Committee Report Whitehorse – CPAWS Yukon congratulates the Select Committee on the Risks and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing on their report and extensive recommendations, but is disappointed in the committee’s inability to explicitly call for a moratorium on fracking.  The committee’s final report makes [Learn more]

Media ReleaseDecember 31, 2014 The Fight Continues for the Peel Watershed The Yukon Government announced late yesterday that they would appeal Justice Veale’s decision in The First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun et. al. v The Government of Yukon, the lawsuit concerning the Peel Watershed launched by the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, Tr’ondëk [Learn more]

NEWS RELEASE December 16, 2014 Caribou under growing threat: CPAWS’ annual report Whitehorse — In its second annual review of governments’ efforts to conserve Canada’s boreal caribou, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) finds that threats from industrial development to boreal woodland caribou have continued to increase while conservation and restoration efforts have shown [Learn more]