conservation

The billionaire's donation is being put to work right away in three ecosystems, the Falling Creek Sanctuary, Teit's Sanctuary and Bourguiba Springs.

Greenpeace activists blocked the street outside Steven Guilbeault's constituency office Friday in downtown Montreal, where the federal environment minister — once a Greenpeace activist himself — will help host the UN's biodiversity summit later this year.

Canada has a goal to protect 25 per cent of its land and freshwater by 2025, and Nature Canada says the Great Lakes need to be included in this.

At the same time, environmental groups have called for a moratorium on aquaculture expansion, pointing to the federal government’s commitment to phase out open net-pen fish farms in B.C. waters by 2025.

The monarch butterfly is just the latest to be added to a growing group of wild species found in Canada that are at risk of disappearing forever. 

Canada has hundreds of endangered species at risk of disappearing from our country and from our planet.

The province’s Department of Natural Resources and Renewables announced the decision Monday, citing the species’ precarious state as the reason for an indefinite hold on logging plans near Minamkeak Lake that include three sections of Crown land.

The Mamalilikulla First Nation's declaration of an Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area re-establishes a spiritual home for a people displaced and scattered by colonial policy.

It’s the fourth time the moratorium has been extended since it was first introduced in the late 1980s.

“Whoopers” are the world's rarest cranes. There are about 500 birds in the natural flock, which was down to 15 in 1941.

One lawyer says we should be paying attention to cases about de facto expropriation.

Life-sustaining ecosystems are disappearing very quickly due to urbanization and land-use practices.

A new conservation area on B.C.'s Galiano Island will protect cultural history, provide a pit stop for migratory birds and boost the ability of an at-risk ecosystem to withstand climate change.

Endangered turtles in Nova Scotia have secured some new habitat, thanks to a successful fundraising campaign over the holidays.

The proposed law will prevent big game hunters from bringing home body parts of 7,000 species including lions, rhinos, elephants and polar bears.