conservation

In Chile, 25 rare chinchillas sit atop 3.5 million ounces of extractable gold. Can a mining company safely move them?

Protection for big trees must be improved, writes Jens Wieting — we need a change in forest management overall, not just for old-growth trees.

Almost 50 B.C.-based groups are included in a letter telling Trudeau they “stand ready to provide staff, research and resource support” to help Canada devise a strategy to achieve its biodiversity and climate targets.

“Our stories are true,” Tyson Atleo's great-grandmother used to tell his father growing up. Tyson Atleo's father taught his son the same words. Throughout his life, Atleo came to understand what those words, "our stories are true" meant.

The group, For Our Kids Niagara, said in an open letter published earlier this week it was an “outrageous position for anyone involved in environmental conservation” to be aligned with climate denial.

A new study done in northeastern Alberta suggests habitat restoration may not be enough to save threatened woodland caribou, at least in the short term, and researchers at the University of British Columbia say their results make the case for a more rigorous analysis of conservation methods.

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.

The Nova Scotia Nature Trust says it has acquired the largest parcel of coastal land for conservation in its 25-year history.

Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou.

The federal and British Columbia governments are preparing to cast a net to find new ways of protecting wild salmon habitat and restoring stocks.

The federal and B.C. governments announced a $14 million conservation investment. People protested the federal government's support for pipelines at the event.

A new report from a group advocating for the protection and conservation of wild Atlantic salmon says the number of salmon in North American rivers has dropped for the second year in a row.

WWF-Canada president Megan Leslie says the conservation movement has historically had “some problematic ways of looking at the world,” such as failing to fully consider how its efforts to protect natural areas might intrude on communities in those areas or not respect Indigenous relationships with the land.

All of the new spending will result in an annual deficit of $18.1 billion for 2018/2019, and ongoing deficits that would continue over the next few years, going down to $12.3 billion by 2022/2023. These totals are lower than deficits that were projected by the Trudeau government in last year's budget.

​The Trudeau government shifted environmental gears Tuesday, putting a greater emphasis on conservation efforts, but shying away from major new financial commitments for decarbonization and climate change initiatives.