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Videos
Radio Interview ‑ BC's Public Hydro‑Power vs Private Hydro‑Power Debate

This is a 15 minute radio interview, with slide show photos, with Joe Foy, Campaign Director of the Wilderness...

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Turtle trouble turns nasty
Mayor Derek Corrigan is saying it's now or never for a multi-million-dollar Burnaby Lake dredging project that's been...
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Media Releases
Ministry of Environment shows strengthened commitment to endangered species
Environmental groups applaud government’s efforts to protect painted turtlesVancouver,BC– Environmental groups applaud...
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Halt perimeter road to save money: NDP
With the province slashing grants to charities and grappling with a multi-billion-dollar deficit, Delta North NDP MLA...
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Manitoba
Logging could destroy Manitoba caribou habitat: environmentalists
WINNIPEG — Two environmental groups say logging could destroy a newly discovered caribou habitat and they want the...
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Plan for 'guaranteed logging zones' riles environmentalists
Photo: Clearcut with forest reserve Provincial government and industry want fewer logging restrictions, to compensate...
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Manitoba
Caribou at risk from Manitoba logging: activists
Photo: Woodland Caribou conservation officials say population is stable Provincial logging practices in northern...
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Columns
Cleaning up Ch'uuis Beach in Clayoquot Sound

On the weekend of September 19 a team of Wilderness Committee staff and volunteers headed out to Clayoquot Sound to...

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British Columbia
Clayoquot Clean Up
This is a short couple minute video about one weekend in September 2009 when a team of Wilderness Committee staff and...
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Manitoba
News conference: stop logging in caribou habitat

On Sept. 23, the Wilderness Committee and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society co-hosted a press conference to...

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The Cleanup that Moves at a Turtle's Pace
Restoration of Lake Burnaby stalled because municipality failed to obtain permit to move rare reptile A $20-million...
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Time to Get 'Wacky' Again: The Northwest Transmission Line
Did Campbell green light an all too familiar boondoggle? Driving the deserted Highway 37 south of Dease Lake, a...
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Columns
Rally at Federal Fisheries Office Demanding Action to Protect Wild Salmon

On September 16th the Wilderness Committee attended a rally to protect wild salmon in front of Federal Fisheries...

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It's time to say enough is enough
Photo: Typical ISA signs in Atlantic salmon While an interview with Mary Ellen Walling, top lobbyist for the salmon...
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Low Salmon Returns May Be Impacting Coastal Grizzlies
Photo: Grizzly in salmon river by John Mariott VANCOUVER—A dramatic drop in British Columbia’s chum salmon population...

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