CPAWS is pleased to welcome former subscribers to WildCanada.net. We’re a national voluntary organization working from coast to coast to coast to protect Canada’s big wilderness landscapes and defend our parks’ ecological integrity. In 40 years, we’ve grown from a handful of volunteers to 13 chapters in every region of Canada.
Our conservation work is concentrated on four large geographic systems: Canada’s Boreal, Yellowstone to Yukon, Algonquin to Adirondacks and Northern Appalachians, and marine and great freshwater lakes. We work in innovative partnerships with progressive resource companies and Aboriginal peoples; we provide advice to governments and we educate the public about conservation opportunities.
Please take a minute to read about a few of the
campaigns we’re working on, starting with the ones that you can take
action on today. In coming months, we’ll bring you updates on all of
these and more.
The U.S. Congress will vote soon on a proposal that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a fragile ecosystem in Alaska, to oil drilling. The Refuge is the primary birthing grounds for the Porcupine Caribou Herd, which migrates from Canada into the Refuge to calve. Protecting Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is extremely important to Canada, as its ecosystem is shared with the Yukon Territory and the Porcupine caribou herd sustains the Gwich’in First Nations. CPAWS-Yukon urges you to Send a letter today to key US senators asking them to vote NO to oil drilling in the Refuge.
Say no to mining before planning in Ontario
A massive, open-pit diamond mine near James Bay that would harm prime, intact, caribou habitat was recently given the go-ahead by the federal government, despite concerns raised by ecology experts. CPAWS-Wildlands League, based in Toronto and Thunder Bay, is asking the province to immediately halt the De Beers Victor mine project until a plan is in place to protect all the values of this globally significant northern boreal region.
Please Act now and send a letter to Ontario Premier McGuinty to let him know you support CPAWS-Wildlands’ call to halt the Victor mining project.
Help protect Alberta’s caribou
CPAWS Edmonton is working to convince a forestry company and the Alberta government to stop logging in an area where the Little Smoky caribou herd is at immediate risk of extirpation. Only 60 animals are left, clinging to life in the last intact part of their range. CPAWS needs your help to encourage the government and West Fraser Timber Company to defer industrial activities in their remaining intact habitat while a plan for their recovery is developed.
CPAWS Manitoba is pressing governments to establish a new national park in the Manitoba’s Lowlands -- a boreal landscape with magnificent sand beaches and spectacular limestone cliffs and where moose, elk, deer, caribou and bison share a common habitat. Click here to send the Premier of Manitoba and the federal Environment Minister a message today to urge them to keep their promise to establish a fully representative national park in the Manitoba Lowlands.
And stay tuned for more CPAWS’ campaign news about…
Yukon’s great boreal
CPAWS-Yukon is campaigning to convince decision-makers to protect the Yukon’s greater Peel Watershed, home to the majestic Wind, Snake and Bonnet Plume rivers. The Peel is one of Canada's finest, most intact, mountain boreal ecosystems – but it’s besieged by oil, gas, coal and mining development. CPAWS Yukon’s campaign will hit the road with a national touring art exhibition, and a sumptuous new book called Three Rivers: The Yukon's Great Boreal Wilderness. For details, visit www.cpawsyukon.org.
New Brunswick’s magnificent Restigouche watershed
CPAWS New Brunswick will be inviting people across Canada and
elsewhere to join Friends of Restigouche to voice support for
new protected areas in this spectacular region of north-west New
Brunswick.
If you’d like to learn more about CPAWS and the chapter nearest you, please visit www.cpaws.org, or contact us at 1-800-333-9453 (WILD).
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