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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...
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Young people from across Canada descend on Ottawa for climate summit
PowerShift Young & Rising to train & mobilize hundreds of young organizers OTTAWA / ALGONQUIN ANISHINABE TERRITORY — Hundreds of young people from across Canada began gathering in Ottawa yesterday…
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Species at risk habitat shouldn’t be open for business
TORONTO — The Government of Ontario’s review of the 2007 Endangered Species Act could put the province’s most vulnerable animals and plants at even greater risk by removing barriers to the harmful activities that are driving wildlife decline, say the David Suzuki Foundation, Ecojustice, Earthroots, Environmental Defence, Greenpeace Canada, Ontario Nature and World Wildlife Fund…
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What is happening to 100 million hectares of forests in Russia?
Right now, vast swathes of Russia are covered in “illegal” forests. 10% of all the forest in Russia (that’s an area about twice the size of Spain) lies in areas…
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Federal Court Dismisses Racketeering Counts Against Greenpeace
Federal Court Dismisses Racketeering Counts Against Greenpeace (San Francisco) – Today, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a landmark decision [1] dismissing all claims…
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La Cour fédérale américaine rejette les allégations de racket contre Greenpeace
(San Francisco) – Aujourd’hui, la cour fédérale américaine pour le district nord de la Californie a rendu une décision historique rejetant toutes les allégations au titre de la loi Racketeer…
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STATEMENT – Greenpeace: “Don’t let Ford do to endangered species what he has done to climate”
(Ottawa) – Today the Ontario government announced that it will review the province’s Endangered Species Act, which is now open for public comment. Its stated goals in this review include…
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STATEMENT: Alberta’s Boreal forest protection agreement: desperately needed during this time of mass animal extinction and forest depletion
14th December, 2018 (Vancouver) – In response to the Alberta agreement between Indigenous, federal and provincial governments as well as industry to propose a Biodiversity Stewardship Area (BSA) that will…
