Recent Progress and Opportunities for Nature Protection in Canada – there is Hope!

December 31, 2021 Ken Wu

EEA's Staff — The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance team - Left: Ken Wu (Executive Director) by an old-growth Ponderosa pine in the proposed South Okanagan National Park Reserve. Top Right: Celina Starnes (Outreach and Operations Director) by the Alberta badlands along the Red Deer River. Bottom Right: Nick Davis (Administrative Coordinator) in the Carolinian forest of the Rouge Valley Urban National Park.

There’s no doubt that these last couple of years have been particularly tough for most people - not only of course due to the pandemic, but also because of the ever-expanding environmental crisis partly experienced via extreme weather events, and compounded by pervasive anti-science and alternative-facts movement divorced from reality among certain segments of society .

But in this article instead of shoveling more unhappy dung your way for the New Year, I want to focus on some recent good news and progress with nature protection in Canada and some opportunities for further progress in 2022.

Video: The Great Grasslands of BC's Southern Interior

August 30, 2021 Ken Wu

See the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's new mini-documentary video on the amazing grasslands of the Interior Valleys in British Columbia, home to some of the greatest concentrations of unique and endangered wildlife in Canada with an emphasis on the South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys.

Media Release: BC Urged to Join National and International Protected Areas Movement in order to save Endangered Old-Growth Forests and Ecosystems

May 27, 2021 Ken Wu

The BC NDP government must commit to Canada’s protected areas targets and the key funding to protect 25% by 2025 and 30% by 2030 of its land and marine areas, at a minimum.

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