With climate-fueled flood and fire seasons fast approaching and all major species groups declining across the country, Canada’s plan to restore and protect nature has fallen dangerously off track and funding is about to dry up. To close the gap between promises and progress made, WWF-Canada is calling for renewed momentum and long-term investment, including … Read more
The World Wildlife Fund Canada issued a statement welcoming the entry into force of the High Seas Treaty and urging Canada to ratify the agreement it helped champion. The organization warns that until Canada ratifies the treaty, it risks being excluded from key decisions affecting marine biodiversity, ocean health, and the economy. “This is a … Read more
Arctic communities and governments took major steps toward reducing reliance on diesel fuel at the Arctic Renewable Energy Summit in Iqaluit, including entering into discussions to establish a Nunavut Renewable Energy Partnership. The summit was organized by WWF-Canada and co-hosted by the Government of Canada, Government of Nunavut and the Qulliq Energy Corporation. David Miller, CEO … Read more
World Wildlife Fund welcomes Shell Canada’s decision to relinquish offshore oil exploration permits within the Inuit preferred boundary for the Lancaster Sound National Marine Conservation Area. An announcement of the decision is to come at WWF-Canada’s Ocean Summit, which marks World Oceans Day. The permits were granted more than 40 years ago and recently disputed in a … Read more
WWF-Canada, represented by Ecojustice lawyers, is taking legal action to quash Arctic oil and gas exploration permits that continue to obstruct conservation efforts in Lancaster Sound, Nunavut. While the federal registrar has refused to delist the permits, the lawsuit argues that Shell Canada’s permits for offshore oil and gas exploration in Lancaster Sound – issued … Read more
WWF is announcing a new alliance that has come together to help establish large-scale renewable-energy projects in at least three northern communities by 2020. This announcement comes in advance of the report we will release in April 2016 that assesses the renewable-energy potential and the associated reductions in diesel-fuel use for 13 communities in Nunavut … Read more
Reacting to the news that Canada aims to officially designate 10 per cent of its territorial waters as Marine Protected Areas by 2020, Bettina Saier, WWF-Canada’s vice president for oceans, released the following statement: “Marine protected areas are a critical part of increasing the health of Canada’s oceans on all three coasts. Protected areas limit industrial … Read more
WWF-Canada announced that Megan Leslie, former Member of Parliament for Halifax, has joined its oceans team in a senior advisory role. “At WWF-Canada, we believe that sustainable conservation gains for nature can only be secured when the economic and social needs of communities are also secured,” said David Miller, president and CEO of WWF-Canada. “Ms. … Read more
One week from today, the U.S. Department of State will host a major event in Anchorage, Alaska entitled the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER). In attendance will be foreign ministers and high-level leaders from all eight Arctic nations, as well as countries and intergovernmental bodies with strong … Read more
WWF-Canada president and CEO David Miller issued a statement following a letter written by Pope Francis on environmental issues. “WWF-Canada is pleased by the vitally important encyclical His Holiness has issued,” said Miller. “Climate change is the single biggest issue facing nature and people,” he said. “We’ve seen national governments paralyzed on this issue and … Read more
