The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is working hard to expand the protected areas system across Canada, with an emphasis on the most endangered ecosystems (typically in southern Canada, that are typically most heavily coveted for logging, suburban sprawl or agricultural conversion). We employ a novel approach that emphasizes the engagement of non-traditional allies (businesses, unions, faith groups, and others) to expand and strengthen the movement, ensures concrete support for land-embedded communities (eg. conservation financing to support Indigenous Protected Areas), and supports the large-scale awareness of Canadians in order to expand ecosystem literacy and engage on key nature-protection campaigns.
The EEA is currently developing several new campaigns that seek to change the "fundamentals" that will help pave the path to enable the protection of endangered ecosystems across Canada, including old-growth forests, prairie grasslands, aspen parkland, deciduous and mixed forests, and freshwater and marine ecosystems.
We realize that without transforming Canadian culture and the economy, and vastly increasing the understanding of and connection to nature among millions of more Canadians, progress for protecting nature will be stalled, particularly in the most contested ecosystems - and in fact, we will end up increasingly playing defence against the roll-back of conservation gains over time.
Over the ensuing months we will continue to campaign hard to:
Ensure the reintroduction and strengthening of the federal Nature Accountability Bill, that enshrines Canada's international protection targets (e.g. 30% protection by 2030 of Canada's lands and waters) into law.
Protect the old-growth forests and ecosystems in BC, by working for Ecosystem-Based Protection targets (via the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework), a BC Protected Areas Strategy, Solutions Space funding for First Nations old-growth logging deferrals, and closing the conservation loopholes in the conservation reserve system. A major new angle to the campaign is currently in the works here.
Continue working directly with several First Nations communities in BC to help establish Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).
Supporting local conservation groups in Canada - coming up will be campaigns to reverse the Ontario government's introduction of Bill 5 that removes endangered species protections and creates environmental deregulation zones, and against the Alberta government's move to enable open-pit coal mining in the endangered foothills and Rockies.
Help us reach our goal!
Your gift will help protect Canada’s most endangered ecosystems—Forever.
Canada has promised to protect 30% of its lands and waters by 2030 - but only a fraction is truly protected. Your support drives the movement to make those promises real and defend the forests, grasslands, and wetlands that give us clean air, safe water, and a stable climate. Together with Indigenous-led conservation and national action, you’re helping protect the natural systems that keep our communities - and all of us - healthy and thriving.
Thank you, most gratefully as always! 💚