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Media Releases
National Campaigns
Nature groups give high marks for Canada’s new commitment to a high ambition action plan to halt and reverse nature loss
At a COP15 panel, Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, committed to advance a wide-ranging...
News
Opinion: Premier Eby must choose: climate commitments or fossil fuels
Opinion: To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must stop building coal, oil and gas projects Of all the...
News
Ontario
Minister rejects protection for Catchacoma forest
Against a backdrop of severe criticism of recent Ontario government cuts to wetland protection in Bill 23 and a...
Columns
British Columbia
The Victoria office has moved!
VISIT US AS OF DEC. 9! The Victoria office is moving! We have a big announcement - our Victoria office has moved! As...
Media Releases
National Campaigns
Pesticide interests must not obstruct action to protect wildlife and nature at COP15
Advocates protest CropLife event at NatureCOP, as delegates consider first global pesticide reduction target TIOHTIÀ...
Media Releases
FOI on bilateral Nature Agreement reveals concerns
Freedom of information request on the BC and federal governments’ agreement to protect nature finds dire gaps in...
News
Environmental alliance calls for end to fracking as Eby swears in new cabinet
Members staged demonstration at Government House in Victoria ahead of swearing-in ceremony People attending Premier...
Media Releases
Climate advocates greet new BC Cabinet with anti‑fracking protest
Rising gas production emerges as key challenge for new premier and cabinet. Unceded Territories of the Songhees...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Ecojustice Executive Director Wins Eugene Rogers Environmental Award
Devon Page presented with Wilderness Committee’s 2022 annual award VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND...
Protecting Biodiversity in BC ‑ Challenges and Opportunities
Media Releases
British Columbia
New data shows BC still not on track to meet climate commitments
VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — Last week’s climate accountability report...
Conserving Catchacoma screening ‑ December 13, 2022
Media Releases
British Columbia
BC’s “Dirty 30” individuals holding back climate action
Wilderness Committee names the top 30 people stopping action to protect the climate in British Columbia VANCOUVER /...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Independent audit finds legal gaps drive species in BC toward extinction
With the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) a month away, new report sounds the alarm on major provincial and federal...
Columns
Volunteer Job Description: End Fracking Petition Canvasser
The Wilderness Committee has an exciting volunteer opportunity for someone interested in playing a vital role in our...
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