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Biodiversity loss: urgent need for forest, ocean protection and dietary change
Toronto- The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and lead to sweeping change…
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ADVISORY: Indigenous leaders, Scientists, Doctors, Artists and Youth unite in call for The Pact for a Green New Deal
Media Advisory FOR DISTRIBUTION ON May 3rd, 2019 MONTREAL (May 3rd, 2019) – A diverse cross-section of civil society endorsers will hold a press conference in three cities across Canada…
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REACTION – Ford Government hands a rotten egg to Ontario’s wildlife just in time for Easter
Responding to today’s proposals by the Ontario government to amend the Endangered Species Act, Head of Forest Campaign with Greenpeace Canada Shane Moffatt commented: “The Ford government is proposing to…
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What if we treated our oceans like they matter?
The seas provide half of our oxygen, and food for a billion people. Let’s give them the protection they deserve. Under the restless surface of our seas, hundreds of miles…
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30×30: groundbreaking scientific study maps out how to protect a third of the world’s oceans by 2030
CANADA – As governments meet at the UN to negotiate towards an historic Global Ocean Treaty, a groundbreaking study by leading marine biologists has mapped out how to protect over a third…
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Greenpeace Winnipeg: Motivating Action Through Film
Last month, our Greenpeace Winnipeg local group volunteers organized a film screening and panel discussion to engage people on the topic of the growing plastic crisis in their community…
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Two draft agreements on BC caribou protection: One offers hope, the other falls short, says Greenpeace
22nd March, 2019 (Vancouver) - The British Columbia and Federal governments have just released two draft agreements regarding the province’s Southern Mountain Caribou. The draft agreement between the B.C. and federal government and the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations, proposes a significantly new protected area in the Peace region, with an interim moratorium area…
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Can Ontario’s Endangered Wildlife Survive Doug Ford?
Humanity has caused populations of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles to decline by 60 per cent since 1970. Now more than one third of plant and animal species are at risk of disappearing off the face of the earth. Surely leaders around the world should now be doing everything in their power to address this crisis…
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STATEMENT: B.C. negotiates caribou conservation plans while speeding up logging: Greenpeace calls out insincerity
“It is disingenuous of the B.C. government to say they’re working on caribou conservation plans while at the same time giving the go-ahead to logging in some of these very same areas, which are the habitat of the threatened southern mountain caribou. If the province was genuinely concerned about protecting and recovering caribou, they should…
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A lot of activity reported… but what does it mean for caribou?
The federal government reported on recent actions to protect boreal caribou. We took highlighter to find out what has actually been done...