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Metro Vancouver's trash incineration plans mocked in environmental group's video
Wilderness Committee: "Speak now or forever hold your breath" VANCOUVER - An environmental group is warning the public...
B.C. First Nations claim right to hunt bald eagles
First Nations leaders in B.C. said Thursday that they have the Charter right to hunt bald eagles for ceremonial...
Coal corporation's AGM sparks protest in Vancouver
Environmentalists fear a proposed coal mine in the Comox Valley could be the first of more to come on Vancouver Island...
TV News Story - Wilderness Committee calling for Eagle protection
In this June 2010 TV news story Wilderness Committee staff scientist Andy Miller calls for protection of Bald Eagles...
Raven Coal Protest
On Wednesday, June 23, 2010 activists from the Wilderness Committee and other concerned citizens gathered in front of...
Wilderness Committee goes on attack against incinerators
The Wilderness Committee hopes a light-hearted approach will get people thinking about the very serious issue of...
Wilderness Committee Releases Anti-Incineration Video
The Wilderness Committee has launched a viral video decrying Metro Vancouver’s proposal to build a new garbage...
Groups back Manitoba decision on boreal protection Announcing Heart of the Boreal action alert/website
Canadian, Manitoban and U.S. organizations have joined together in an action alert to urge the Manitoba Government to...
Coal Concerns Pack Capitol Theatre
PORT ALBERNI – About 235 people packed into the Capitol Theatre on Tuesday night to speak against becoming a coal...
Feds sued over failure to protect killer whales
Case could determine future of Canada's at-risk species Conservation groups, represented by Ecojustice, are back in...
Rally for Fish Lake
This is a 10 minute video news report from the Wilderness Committee about a protest rally that took place on June 16...
B.C. orcas lack protection, court told
Conservationists were in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday, suing the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to try and...
Environmentalists in court to extend protection for killer whales
Environmental groups will be in court this week arguing the federal government is failing to adequately protect...
Wilderness Committee’s Barlee: Environmental Justice Indivisible From Social Justice
Wrapped in a mossy green scarf, the Wilderness Committee’s Policy Director Gwen Barlee explained to the assembled...
Protection needed, but to what degree?
Editorial It appears that a decision as to whether the proposal for a national park in the South Okanagan -...
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