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A common question that is asked is "How is the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance different than all those environmental organizations out there? Why not just support those groups that exist now?"
The answer is that our mandate has some vital differences from what is done so far by the status quo of the conservation movement - differences we believe that build on the existing necessary work of the movement, but constitute a vital niche for us that must get filled.
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If we want to see the protection of endangered forests, grasslands, wetlands, and native ecosystems across Canada on a much larger scale, it will take:
Expanding the conservation movement to really engage “non-traditional allies” (eg's. businesses, unions, diverse faith groups, scientists and academics, multi-cultural outreach, outdoor recreation groups) to build sufficient clout to change policy.
Major support for Indigenous Protected Areas proposals, policy-wise and funding.
Fighting for places, not just policies, by supporting local conservation champions.
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance was launched just over one year ago, in the fall of 2018, with an ambitious goal to scale up the protection of all native ecosystems in Canada - from coniferous to deciduous forests, from grasslands to wetlands, from freshwater to marine ecosystems - to reach a target of 50% protection of lands and waters across Canada by 2030. At the same time we aim to set an example to help transform the approach of much of the environmental movement to move beyond primarily engaging environmental activist constituencies to focus much more on “non-traditional allies” to broaden the movement.
Read moreThe following list (with links) are some of the news media coverage of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance and our campaigns since our launch over a year ago (this is not a complete list). Through the news media we have reached millions of Canadians on our campaigns, and hundreds of thousands more people via social media.
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The Times Colonist has recently printed an opinion piece by the Endangered Ecosystem Alliance’s Ken Wu. For brevity several key lines were cut. We print the original article here in its entirety followed by a link to the online article in the newspaper
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PLEASE SEND a MESSAGE BELOW to the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada to take a pivotal step to avert both the extinction and climate crises by committing to protect and restore 50% of Canada in all types of land and marine ecosystems by 2030. Currently 11.7% of Canada’s land area is protected, and 14% of Canada’s marine waters have some degree of protection.
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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 Vastly Scale-Up Nature Protection as Conservationists Join Greta Thunberg’s Global Climate Strike – the largest environmental protests in world history!
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Endangered Ecosystems Alliance commend the Federal Government for $175 million Conservation Funding for 27 Indigenous Protected Areas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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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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