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National Campaigns
Pollinator enemy #1?

Our case Our bees and pollinators campaign focuses on Health Canada continuing to allow widespread neonicotinoid...

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British Columbia
Fears foreign‑funding propaganda will stir hatred in British Columbia
Ta’Kaiya Blaney didn’t sleep well Friday night. Blaney is one of the core organizers of the youth-lead occupation of...
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Taking down the foreign‑funded radicals conspiracy theory

B.C. Liberals call for ban on foreign money donations to B.C. environmental groups fighting pipeline. Guest: Vivian...

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Washington’s rivers, salmon and orcas need protection from Canadian mines
Good fences make good neighbors, wrote Robert Frost. Border walls aside, that remains true of Canadian mines upstream...
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MOUNTAIN CARIBOU HABITAT: EXCEEDING DISTURBANCE LIMITS

Eighty-one per cent of BC’s southern mountain caribou local populations have lost more habitat than what’s needed for...

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Ottawa, province, First Nations sign deal to protect southern mountain caribou
VANCOUVER — A historic agreement to save endangered southern mountain caribou in northeast British Columbia has been...
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OPINION: Environmental groups want healthy forests and communities
“We work to mobilize action on some of the most pressing issues facing our society today” We work for environmental...
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Manitoba
Portfolio shift raises fears for endangered species
The minister in charge of mining, forestry and agriculture in Manitoba is now also responsible for the Endangered...
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B.C. partners with First Nations to create new park in habitat for endangered caribou herds, threatened species

A new deal signed by the federal and provincial governments and West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations will see the...

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Agreement signed to set aside land for Caribou in B.C. Peace
Nearly two million acres in the B.C. Peace will be placed into protected areas as part of a caribou recovery agreement...
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Media Releases
Manitoba
ATV trail proposal an assault on Manitoba parks

Pallister’s government must stop allowing destruction of Nopiming WINNIPEG – A proposal to authorize ATV trails will...

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Manitoba
Background: ATV Trails in Nopiming Provincial Park
Images Nopiming Provincial Park, 2016, Wilderness Committee Previous coverage of ATVs in provincial parks: Wilderness...
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Environmentalists rejoice at Frontier Mine cancellation
VANCOUVER – Wilderness Committee is celebrating victory over the largest proposed tar sands project ever, the Teck...
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Ontario
Our Changing Seasons: Where trees have stood for centuries in Peterborough and the Kawarthas
The case for protections for Catchacoma old-growth woods The Wilderness Committee is an environmental charity that...
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First Nation‑led plan for the Peace gives hope for endangered caribou 
VANCOUVER – First Nations and environmental groups are celebrating the signing of a ground-breaking caribou...

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