On December 2, 2009, the Peel Watershed Planning Commission released their Recommended Plan for the Peel watershed.

Vuntut National Park was established in 1995 after extensive negotiations through the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation's Final Land Claims Agreement between the Vuntut Gwitchin of Old Crow and the Government of Canada and the Yukon.

Ottawa - CPAWS welcomes today's announcement by Environment Minister John Baird that lands comprising the headwaters of the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories have been temporarily protected to enable the creation of a new national park, to be called Nááts'ihch'oh [pronounced naah-tseen-CHO].

Whitehorse - CPAWS-Yukon won the Silver Community Award in the conservation category at the Canadian Environment Awards 2007 gala event at the Montreal Science Centre last night.

Environmental Education Resources for Northern Canada is aweb resource funding by the WWF-Canada, with help from CIBC.

The Arctic Youth Network is a grassroots organization that works to connect young Northerners to the opportunities around them, to their communities, and to the policies that affect their daily lives.

The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) educates, advocates and conducts research on Yukon environmental issues, and has been doing so since 1968.

The Raven Recycling Society is the Yukon's premier recycling facility, serving not only the general public and businesses within Whitehorse but also providing processing facilities for all Yukon communities.

The Yukon bison population is booming, a government survey shows. The Yukon government set a target population limit at 500 animals, but last week 641 examples of North America's largest land mammal were counted.

Coalbed methane exploration and development are being proposed for the Yukon. But it is not here yet. We still have time to decide whether we want it and, if so, how the industry should operate.

Gwitchin leaders from the Yukon are packing their bags for yet another trip to Washington to fight against proposals to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Whitehorse - Nine environmental Yukon projects will share close to $5 million under the Canada-Yukon Infrastructure Agreement.

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Yukon wildlife managers are counting on more hunters to help keep the territory’s bison herd in check. – CBC

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