Media Releases

TORONTO, June 7, 2019 – The Ontario government’s just-passed More Homes, More Choice Act threatens the province’s at-risk wildlife and their habitats by gutting protections in the interest of urban expansion, industrial development and resource extraction.

OTTAWA, June 4, 2019 — Over 90 per cent of Canadians support the call to protect 30 per cent of the country’s oceans by 2030, according to a survey released today by Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, West Coast Environmental Law and World Wildlife Fund Canada....

The community-based event was founded in 2015 by Jasmine de Pencier and Jett Jardeleza-Toole, then aged 10, who were determined to protect Canada’s nature and wildlife. Since then, it has grown to include 27 runs from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia and raised nearly $200,000 for WWF-Canada’s conservation...

ST. JOHN'S, May 24, 2019 - World Wildlife Fund Canada welcomes the decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to reduce the total allowable catch (TAC) of Atlantic mackerel, an important forage fish species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the coast of Nova Scotia, the Bay of Fundy...

HALIFAX, May 21, 2019 - World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) are pleased to recognize the outstanding conservation collaboration and accomplishments of Nova Scotia’s Raymond Plourde with the Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize. Thanks to decades of dedication, Plourde and a team of...

VANCOUVER, May 10, 2019 — A coalition of six conservation groups commend the federal government’s new measures to support southern resident killer whale recovery. The measures are the boldest yet; greater whale-watching restrictions, expanded voluntary slow downs for international shipping and the creation of no-vessel zones in feeding areas....