Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

A dozen conservation and Indigenous groups have written federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson asking him to force the Alberta government to reinstate environmental monitoring in the province's oilpatch.

Seven environmental and Indigenous groups have asked the Alberta government to restart oilpatch monitoring as soon as possible given that other activities are coming out of the COVID-19 shutdown.

After 15 years of negotiations, protests and court battles, the Peel Watershed Regional Land Use Plan now protects more than 67,000 square kilometres of wilderness in the Yukon.

A United Nations body has given Canada a new deadline to repair the country's largest national park and the government is promising greater efforts to stop its deterioration.

Research into free-roaming plains bison in Saskatchewan's Prince Albert National Park says the herd could go extinct from overhunting in fields outside the protected area.

An environmental group says Canada needs to up its game on protecting its oceans.

Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have reached a deal on protecting threatened caribou.

Parks Canada says it won't go ahead with a plan to build a bike trail along the scenic Icefields Parkway that runs through Banff and Jasper national parks.

An Environment Canada report says that despite much talk on preserving caribou habitat, little progress has been made to close gaps in the protection of the threatened species.

The federal government appears poised to commit what some believe could be a significant amount of cash in next week's budget to protect more of Canada's lands, inland waters and oceans.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is being sued for failing to tell Canadians how the country's woodland caribou are being protected.

Parks Canada often promotes the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff as "one of the most scenic drives in the world," but a plan to build a bike path has hit its fair share of bumps in the road.