Yellowknife – One of the most majestic and endangered birds on the continent appears to be making a slow flight to recovery, say experts who see whooping cranes returning to their Texas wintering grounds in record numbers this year. Continue reading Whooping cranes make a comeback
Trees In Trust has the perfect green gift. For a donation of $30, you can dedicate a piece of woodland … Continue reading NATURE TRUST LAUNCHES NEW GREEN GIFT IDEA
Charlottetown – Trees In Trust has the perfect green gift. For a donation of $30, you can dedicate a piece of woodland to someone special. Your donation is used by a charitable land trust to purchase and preserve endangered forest in the Maritimes. Continue reading Trees In Trust: Saving our forest one piece at a time
Manitoba Wildlands released the 2007 Protected Areas Audit November 14,
2007. The Audit is annual, documenting all Manitoba Government actions
to establish protected lands and waters.
There were both protected areas losses and gains in the 2006 – 2007
year. The land quantum gain in protected area is 6,361 ha. The amount
of land removed from protection is 13,985 ha. The net loss in land
quantum protected from development in Manitoba for the 2007 Protected
Areas Audit is 7,642 ha.
Continue reading “Manitoba Wildlands Protected Areas Audit Released”
Caribou have been a crucial food source for Canada’s northern indigenous people from time immemorial. But their population is dwindling at an alarming rate, in no small part because of improved hunting equipment — including snowmobiles — as well as exploration work for oil and gas reserves and arctic diamond mines. And now, the slow, […] Continue reading Saving the endangered caribou
CPAWS is optimistic that the future of southern Quebec’s last wild watershed will be safeguarded. The province has released a … Continue reading Quebec’s Dumoine moving towards protected status
Nunavut will hunt fewer polar bears this year COLIN CAMPBELL | October 29, 2007 | Late last month, the government … Continue reading Okay, they’re declining. Now why?
Moncton, September 19th, 2007. – Since June, the Petitcodiac Watershed Alliance (PWA) has been working towards re-greening the Fox Creek … Continue reading Public invitation : Rehabilitating the Fox Creek’s river banks by planting trees!
Municipal governments and regional districts must take action to protect fish habitat in their jurisdictions, according to the David Suzuki Foundation.
Local governments in B.C. will vote on a resolution sponsored by the City of Port Moody and based on recommendations of a Foundation handbook, Zoned RS-1 (Residential Salmon-1), at the Union of B.C. Municipalities annual convention in Vancouver September 24 to 28.
The lighthearted handbook with serious intent encourages local governments to use zoning bylaws and to work with other levels of government to protect fish habitat from numerous threats, including municipal development, climate change, water use, logging, and mining.
Continue reading “Action needed to prevent salmon homelessness”
Moncton’s fish are in luck
PATRICIA TREBLE | August 27, 2007 |
When Roly MacIntyre moved to Moncton, N.B., in 1965, the Petitcodiac River was a great place for salmon fishing. But the salmon, shad, tomcod and most other species are gone from what is now Canada’s most endangered river. The problem is a 40-year-old causeway linking Moncton with suburban Riverview. Twice a day, tides from the Bay of Fundy push up the Petitcodiac, reversing the waterway’s flow. But virtually all the sediment and the fish are stopped when the tidal bore reaches the causeway. Only a small meandering channel is left to cut through the sprawling mud flats — which can be rather odorous in the summer — that block 92 per cent of the river’s width near the causeway.
A new Leger Marketing poll commissioned by Greenpeace reveals that 86 per cent of Quebecers support the suspension of logging … Continue reading Public supports a timeout on logging in Quebec’s intact Boreal Forest
Greenpeace, Living Oceans Society, and whale watching companies today called on the Harper and Campbell governments to investigate a diesel spill that took place inside an ecological reserve, threatening a population of orca whales.
A week ago, a barge was being towed when it listed and spilled its load into the Robson Bight ecological reserve northeast of Vancouver Island. The ship was carrying a fuel truck estimated to hold 10,000 litres of diesel. While some diesel fuel has spilled into the ocean, there is the possibility of over 9000 litres remaining at the bottom of the ocean. Neither the federal nor provincial governments have made any attempt to inspect the wreckage and determine the extent of the clean up required.
