We’ll achieve these goals by:

• Leading and contributing to ground-breaking projects and analysis to ensure the right actions are taken in the right places, driving the most powerful conservation outcomes.
• Supporting Indigenous-led conservation.
• Leveraging and advocating for nature-based climate solutions that have strong co-benefits for wildlife.
• Working with industry, businesses and governments to reduce impacts on wildlife and habitat.
• Engaging individuals and communities to take measurable actions for nature.

Our latest Living Planet Report Canada revealed widespread and dramatic declines in wildlife across the country, with populations of at-risk species dropping by 59 per cent on average since 1970. Short-eared owls, barren-ground caribou, chinook salmon and wood turtles are just a few of the at-risk species critically affected by habitat loss and fragmentation. Disruptions are often linked to current and historic land-use changes such as draining wetlands, deforestation, development of coastal regions, growth of cities and agriculture, and impacts from industrial sector activities, such as energy production and mining. All of these threats are accelerated by climate change.   

By 2030, Regenerate Canada will restore at least one million hectares of lost or degraded habitats for wildlife. These efforts are focused on ecosystems in priority regions — areas identified, through systematic analysis, to have the greatest need and potential for recovering biodiversity and increasing carbon stored in nature. Our actions include:

• Supporting Indigenous-led conservation actions in regions recovering from natural disruptions such as wildfires and industrial stressors, including in the Lower Fraser Watershed and the central interior of B.C.
• Restoring ecologically important regions such as the Wolastoq (Saint John River) watershed in New Brunswick, where we are using an innovative decision-making tool to prioritize restoration efforts that benefit the entire ecosystem and reverse the decline of 40 species.
• Rebuilding nature in high-density areas, including throughout a thousand-kilometre corridor across southern Ontario and Quebec, using native seeds, plants and trees.

Restoring one million hectares to reverse wildlife loss

• Supporting Indigenous-led conservation actions in regions recovering from natural disruptions such as wildfires and industrial stressors, including in the Lower Fraser Watershed and the central interior of B.C.
• Restoring ecologically important regions such as the Wolastoq (Saint John River) watershed in New Brunswick, where we are using an innovative decision-making tool to prioritize restoration efforts that benefit the entire ecosystem and reverse the decline of 40 species.
• Rebuilding nature in high-density areas, including throughout a thousand-kilometre corridor across southern Ontario and Quebec, using native seeds, plants and trees.

Our latest Living Planet Report Canada revealed widespread and dramatic declines in wildlife across the country, with populations of at-risk species dropping by 59 per cent on average since 1970. Short-eared owls, barren-ground caribou, chinook salmon and wood turtles are just a few of the at-risk species critically affected by habitat loss and fragmentation. Disruptions are often linked to current and historic land-use changes such as draining wetlands, deforestation, development of coastal regions, growth of cities and agriculture, and impacts from industrial sector activities, such as energy production and mining. All of these threats are accelerated by climate change.   

By 2030, Regenerate Canada will restore at least one million hectares of lost or degraded habitats for wildlife. These efforts are focused on ecosystems in priority regions — areas identified, through systematic analysis, to have the greatest need and potential for recovering biodiversity and increasing carbon stored in nature. Our actions include:  

Restoring one million hectares to reverse wildlife loss

Nature-based climate solutions are strategies that use the unique powers of nature to both capture and store carbon. When implemented alongside other decarbonizing efforts, they can be extremely effective at keeping climate change in check, and offer strong co-benefits for wildlife.

Globally, the release of carbon from land and sea has been estimated to contribute one-third of all greenhouse gases emitted annually. Canada is home to some of the world’s largest carbon stores including the Boreal forest, the peatlands of the Hudson and James Bay region and the Arctic tundra. When habitats that help store carbon are degraded, we risk releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. Identifying large carbon stores and protecting them from development is vital to helping Canada meet its international emissions targets.

By 2030, WWF-Canada will reduce carbon emissions by 30 million tonnes, by supporting and implementing innovate nature-based climate solutions, including:

• Using state-of-the-art technologies to assess and monitor Canada’s carbon stores, so they can be protected from development and continue to lock carbon in nature.
• Implementing a Blue Carbon Action Plan with Indigenous and local communities, businesses and government to protect coastal zones, which can absorb more carbon per unit area than terrestrial forests.
• Providing resources to help Indigenous and local communities and organizations restore degraded lands and shorelines to improve habitats and store carbon.

Nature-based climate solutions

• Using state-of-the-art technologies to assess and monitor Canada’s carbon stores, so they can be protected from development and continue to lock carbon in nature.
• Implementing a Blue Carbon Action Plan with Indigenous and local communities, businesses and government to protect coastal zones, which can absorb more carbon per unit area than terrestrial forests.
• Providing resources to help Indigenous and local communities and organizations restore degraded lands and shorelines to improve habitats and store carbon.

Nature-based climate solutions are strategies that use the unique powers of nature to both capture and store carbon. When implemented alongside other decarbonizing efforts, they can be extremely effective at keeping climate change in check, and offer strong co-benefits for wildlife.

Globally, the release of carbon from land and sea has been estimated to contribute one-third of all greenhouse gases emitted annually. Canada is home to some of the world’s largest carbon stores including the Boreal forest, the peatlands of the Hudson and James Bay region and the Arctic tundra. When habitats that help store carbon are degraded, we risk releasing vast amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change. Identifying large carbon stores and protecting them from development is vital to helping Canada meet its international emissions targets.

By 2030, WWF-Canada will reduce carbon emissions by 30 million tonnes, by supporting and implementing innovate nature-based climate solutions, including:

Nature-based climate solutions