“The Manitoba government is paying a company to bulldoze a provincial park and bulldoze boreal caribou habitat,” said Eric Reder, director of The Wilderness Committee’s Manitoba field office.
The dreaded arrival of chronic wasting disease in B.C. requires a big cash injection and rapid action by the province for any hope of stemming a widespread plague, say wildlife experts.
On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Ottawa announced an expansion to the Indigenous Guardians program, which funds moccasins on the ground to support Indigenous-led conservation efforts and environmental monitoring through a First Nations lens.
Inuit-led conservation received a boost on Wednesday, with the federal government announcing about $3 million towards programs that will fund data collection efforts on how climate change is affecting land, water and sea ice.
Canada is promising to establish 10 new Indigenous-led federal marine protected areas as IMPAC5, a global summit on ocean conservation, kicks off Friday in Vancouver.
Habitats, natural resources and recreational greenspace are not as replaceable or moveable as the Doug Ford government's new policies make them out to be, according to conservation experts.