Help us reach our goal of $75,000!
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is working to raise $75,000 by June 21st for our campaigns to protect the endangered ecosystems across Canada!
YOUR support helps make our vital work possible - and we get results (see below). Please consider making a tax-deductible donation today. Monthly donations have the greatest impact, and we also accept gifts of stocks and shares
Why we stand apart:
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is not "just another environmental group" among hundreds. We are truly special in the conservation movement in our key innovations to enhance our efficacy.
This includes prioritizing protection for the most endangered and contested ecosystems in Canada (typically the really "hard" areas to protect in Canada's south where most industry and people are...we're not just aiming to maximize hectares of land protected regardless of the ecosystem and the degree of threat they face, we're prioritizing those most at risk and the least protected thusfar); working to build a much broader, more powerful movement involving "non-traditional allies", including businesses, outdoor recreation groups, faith groups, and unions; directly working with and helping to finance First Nations communities to protect old-growth forests via our partnerships involving conservation financing initiatives; and educating the public that environmentalism is central to meeting the daily proximate needs of people in general, for our health and well-being, for a more diversified, prosperous and resilient economy, and to counteract the climate and extinction crises...
...and so much more!
What are we working on right now?
Recently, the EEA and our thousands of supporters (thank you!!) played an important role in getting the federal government to renew funding to protect nature, with $1.6 billion announced on March 31st to expand Canada’s protected areas system over five years and $3.8 billion in general for various nature conservation projects.
Now, we are focused on securing federal protected areas legislation through the reintroduction of the Nature Accountability Bill, which died when the last federal election was called before it could be passed. This legislation would mandate that the current and future federal governments meet Canada’s international protected areas commitment, which is currently to protect 30% of the country’s lands and waters by 2030. It is a vital piece of legislation that would help supercharge the expansion of nature protection across Canada and bear down pressure on the provinces to take action.
In BC, we are working hard to protect old-growth forests and endangered ecosystems by pushing for a BC Protected Areas Strategy (where the province will have to proactively pursue protection of highest conservation value areas, rather than sitting on their haunches), ecosystem-based protection targets (which is similar to a “GPS of protected areas creation” to aim for the protection of the most endangered ecosystems) via the long-promised Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health (BEH) Framework that the province is dragging its heels on, and through “Solutions Space” funding for First Nations to undertake old-growth logging deferrals without losing their major source of revenues.
At the same time, we are moving forward on a concerted push on the province to implement a BC Conservation Economy Strategy, to incentivize the sustainable diversification of industries in the communities of regions where major protected areas expansion is occurring. Part of this process would be for the province to implement an "Old-Growth to Second-Growth" Economic Transition Strategy, to get BC out of the business of old-growth logging and quickly towards a modernized, more profitable, value-added, sustainable second-growth forest industry.
We will also soon announce some new dimensions to our BC provincial campaigns.
Watch one of our more popular old-growth video clips here.
On the ground, we continue to work overtime to support and engage First Nations communities directly to establish new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) in some of the most endangered old-growth forests in BC.
We will also soon be working to help protect Prairie grasslands, halt open-pit coal mining in Alberta, advance new protected areas in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence region, and a mass public education campaign on the health and economic benefits of nature protection.
Plus a lot more!
Your support has been pivotal over the years. It has helped us secure the $1.6 billion renewal of federal protected areas funding; successfully spearhead the campaign for the BC government to commit to Canada’s 30% by 2030 protection target, secure $1.2 billion in federal-provincial funding through the BC Nature Agreement and the $300 million BC Conservation Financing Mechanism; support the development and introduction of the former federal government's Nature Accountability Bill, which we are renewing our push for; help advance the South Okanagan National Park Reserve; thwart the dismantling of more than 170 Alberta parks and recreation areas; and successfully contribute in the push against the Ontario government to reverse its removal of lands from the Greenbelt several years ago—among many other campaigns!
Watch videos of our work here and read our latest news here.
Your renewed support would be most appreciated by future generations of human and non-human lives.
And thank you as always for speaking up and supporting the protection of the diverse native ecosystems across Canada!
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.