The recent fires raging in the Amazon have begun to focus the world’s attention on the destruction of forests in general — including the logging of B.C.’s magnificent, old-growth, temperate rainforests — the grandest forests on earth next to the U.S. redwoods.
Read morePush to Scale-up Ecosystem Protection at GlobalClimate Strike
Push to Vastly Scale-Up Nature Protection as Conservationists Join Greta Thunberg’s Global Climate Strike – the largest environmental protests in world history!
Read moreEndangered Ecosystems Alliance commends $175 million federal support for Indigenous Protected Areas and Clayoquot Sound
Endangered Ecosystems Alliance commend the Federal Government for $175 million Conservation Funding for 27 Indigenous Protected Areas.
Read moreBC Government’s announces protection for 54 of BC’s biggest trees.
July 17, 2020
BC Government’s announces protection for 54 of BC’s biggest trees.
Conservationists consider it a first small step forward, with a long way to go.
Read moreSouth Okanagan National Park Reserve Moves Forward - Canada's Greatest Conservation Opportunity
Canada’s Greatest Conservation Opportunity, the South Okanagan National Park Reserve, Takes a Major Leap Forward with a new Agreement.
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) commends the federal government, BC government, and the Osoyoos and Lower Similkameen Indian Bands for signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to negotiate the park’s establishment.
Read moreJune 5 - World Environment Day: Conservationists call for an ambitious 50% Protection Target for Canada by 2030
Today on World Environment Day (June 5), conservationists with the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are calling on the Canadian government to support an ambitious 50% protection target of all land and freshwater areas by 2030 for Canada and the world, including setting science-based targets for all ecosystem types. In November of 2020, nations around the world will gather in Beijing, China to negotiate a new international protected areas target (which is currently 17% by 2020) for Earth’s land area at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s conference.
Read moreIMAX Film Featuring Renowned Canadian Video Artist to Highlight Vancouver Island’s Endangered Old-Growth Forests
The magnificent but endangered old-growth forests of Vancouver Island are about to get a large-scale national audience on IMAX screens across Canada as the film Embers and the Giants premieres at the Images Festival in Toronto this week (Thursday, April 18) and later this fall in IMAX cinemas across Canada in Victoria, Sudbury, Edmonton and Montreal.
Read moreDefend and Strengthen Ontario's Endangered Species Act
Ontario supporters, please take just a minute by March 4 to tell the Doug Ford government to back away from trying to weaken the Endangered Species Act by making it easier for industries to circumvent protection measures, and instead to strengthen the act by closing the "exemptions" loopholes for industries threatening endangered species. There are over 230 plant and animal species that are at-risk of extinction or of disappearing from Ontario, and the province is one of the most species-rich jurisdictions in Canada. The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance is working with Ontario environmental groups to weigh-in on this issue. Go to the Ontario Nature page.
Make the South Okanagan National Park Reserve a Reality! Save BC's grasslands, "pocket desert", and Ponderosa pine forests!
Some of Canada's most unique ecosystems - jam-packed with endangered species - are the amazing grasslands, "pocket desert" and Ponderosa pine forests of BC's SOUTH OKANAGAN region by Osoyoos. There is where a new national park reserve is proposed!
Read moreSaving the Bighorn Country - Alberta NDP Government's Greatest Legacy or Squandered Opportunity?
The Alberta government recently announced a proposal to protect 380,000 hectares of the spectacular Rocky Mountains next to Banff and Jasper Parks in the Bighorn Country – after literally 50 years of deliberation by successive governments! Right now Alberta’s government is deliberating on whether or not to make a new protected area a part of their legacy, or to squander this first rate opportunity out of fear and hesitation.
Read moreMedia Release: Canada's most magnificent old-growth forest located on Vancouver Island?
Conservationists locate what may be Canada's most magnificent and photogenic old-growth forest on Vancouver Island
The “Mossome” Grove (short for “Mossy and Awesome” Grove) consists of giant, prehistoric-looking, shaggy bigleaf maples with tall, straight Sitka spruce, and is found near Port Renfrew.
Read moreA Vital Niche in the National Conservation Movement - Upcoming Projects
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is a new national conservation organization working for the science-based protection of all native ecosystems and to increase “ecosystem literacy” across Canada. The organization was founded in September of 2018 by Ken Wu, formerly the executive director and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance (2010 to 2018) and the executive director and campaign director of the Wilderness Committee in Victoria, BC (1999 to 2010).
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