environment

Ottawa is getting the message voters want climate change to be a priority, environmentalist Tzeporah Berman told 500 attendees on a Zoom call hosted by National Observer last week.

In a city of pinstripes and partisan power brokers, Mike Allison sticks out like a sore thumb. He's in the wrong place — and he knows it. 

“It’s about the conservation of threatened species and recovery of threatened ecosystems,” said Gregg Howald, CEO of  FreshWater Life, an NGO that works on freshwater preservation. “Islands support a disproportionate amount of our global biodiversity. About 20 per cent [of global biodiversity] are found on these islands, and they represent just about five per cent of the Earth’s surface.”