Josh Ostroff

Joshua Ostroff

Posts count: 44

Panel of one man and three women in front of a crowd

WWF-Canada’s Masterclass: When carbon tech met Indigenous-led conservation

August 11, 2023

WWF-Canada launched our Nature x Carbon Tech Challenge in 2021, calling on academics, entrepreneurs and inventors to pitch their most cost-effective, innovative and user-friendly technologies to measure carbon in nature. Why? So, we can... Read More

WWF-Canada launched our Nature x Carbon Tech Challenge in 2021, calling on academics, entrepreneurs and inventors to pitch their...
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‘We survived off our resources for millennia’: Paul Okalik, WWF-Canada’s lead Arctic specialist

February 1, 2023

During last month’s COP15 biodiversity summit, WWF-Canada’s lead Arctic specialist, Paul Okalik, moderated an Arctic marine conservation panel with guest speakers hailing from Alaska to Nunavut. Before returning home to Iqaluit, Paul spoke to... Read More

During last month’s COP15 biodiversity summit, WWF-Canada’s lead Arctic specialist, Paul Okalik, moderated an Arctic marine conservation panel with...
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For Canada, Indigenous-led conservation led COP15

December 21, 2022

During COP15’s final week, as negotiators inside the Palais des Congrès wrangled over the details of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, WWF-Canada and our partners were ramping up pressure on the critical importance of... Read More

During COP15’s final week, as negotiators inside the Palais des Congrès wrangled over the details of the Kunming-Montreal Global...
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COP president from China on big screen above a room full of UN delegates

We are nature: The world comes together as COP15 comes to a close in Montreal

December 21, 2022

The gavel fell, suddenly, at 3:33 a.m. Inside a massive hall on the fifth floor of Montreal’s Palais des Congrès, on December 19, the last day of negotiations, more than a thousand exhausted delegates... Read More

The gavel fell, suddenly, at 3:33 a.m. Inside a massive hall on the fifth floor of Montreal’s Palais des...
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A projection on the side of the Palais de Justice building that reads: “Let them know that all eyes are on them”

COP15: The world is watching. The clock is ticking. Wildlife is waiting

December 12, 2022

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from 30 offices around the world — have descended on Montreal’s Palais des Congrès for the... Read More

Around 17,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries, as well as NGOs like WWF — there are staff here from...
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WWF @ CBD COP15: What we’re up to during the UN biodiversity summit

December 6, 2022

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of the Parties for the UN Convention on Biological on Diversity, advocating for a Global Biodiversity... Read More

WWF-Canada and our international WWF colleagues will be out in force at CBD COP15, aka the 15th Conference of...
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Killer whale jumping out of the water in BC

Q&A: The UN COP15 summit needs to be a leap forward for nature

November 29, 2022

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of nature protections. CBD COP15, the UN biodiversity summit in Montreal from Dec. 7 – 19,... Read More

Once a decade, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gather to negotiate the next ten years of...
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The Reforesting of Elephant Hill

November 14, 2022

One of our most significant ongoing projects is the reforesting of Elephant Hill, a nearly 200,000-hectare area of Secwépemc territory near Kamloops, B.C. that burned for three months during the province’s worst-ever wildfire season in 2017.... Read More

One of our most significant ongoing projects is the reforesting of Elephant Hill, a nearly 200,000-hectare area of Secwépemc territory near...
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Launch of Mapping Canada's Carbon Landscapes study at COP26

The need for climate ambition at COP27 is heating up

November 2, 2022

The last seven years have been the seven hottest in recorded history, marked by deadly heat waves, droughts, superstorms and flooding around the world. It has also been seven years since the 2015 UN climate... Read More

The last seven years have been the seven hottest in recorded history, marked by deadly heat waves, droughts, superstorms...
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Downtown Montreal, Quebec, as seen from the top of Mount Royal

CBD COP15: Why the whole world will be watching Montreal this December

October 21, 2022

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks this fall. The first is focused on climate, and the second is focused on biodiversity.... Read More

Two of the most important summits about the nature crisis are happening within the span of a few weeks...
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Sockeye-filled spawning creek cutting through forest with mountains in the background

Family reunion: How habitat restoration is returning salmon to Katzie territory

September 23, 2022

“It’s in our history, back to the time of Creation, that a Katzie person married a Sockeye person and they went away together, out to the ocean. But every year they come home to... Read More

“It’s in our history, back to the time of Creation, that a Katzie person married a Sockeye person and...
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Spotlight on Aqviqtuuq Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area

September 20, 2022

WWF-Canada is spotlighting Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, including Taloyoak, the northernmost community on the mainland in Canada, which is working to establish an Inuit Protected and Conserved Area in their traditional lands of... Read More

WWF-Canada is spotlighting Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, including Taloyoak, the northernmost community on the mainland in Canada, which...
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