biodiversity loss Archives

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Canada must scale up funding to meet climate and nature targets, urge 22 leading environmental organizations

November 8, 2023

The Green Budget Coalition released fiscal recommendations for addressing the climate and biodiversity crises while strengthening Canada’s economy. Read More

The Green Budget Coalition released fiscal recommendations for addressing the climate and biodiversity crises while strengthening Canada’s economy.
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The election was a win for nature, but now comes the real work

May 8, 2025

This next stage must be about implementation, removing politics, and ignoring misinformation, and that requires a new approach to how government functions. Canada is home to the world’s longest coastline, nearly 25 per cent... Read More

This next stage must be about implementation, removing politics, and ignoring misinformation, and that requires a new approach to...
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Humpback whale tail visible from the water.

Canadian environmental groups call for ambitious global and national action to save nature before it’s too late

December 2, 2022

“The dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are locked into accelerating feedback loops, and one of the best ways to break that cycle is by reversing nature loss.” Read More

“The dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change are locked into accelerating feedback loops, and one of the...
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Explaining the 73 per cent decline in global wildlife populations (and what we can do about it)

October 24, 2024

A 73 per cent decline, on average, in monitored mammal, bird, fish, amphibian and reptile populations around the world over the past 50 years — that’s what WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR), the 15th... Read More

A 73 per cent decline, on average, in monitored mammal, bird, fish, amphibian and reptile populations around the world...
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A photo of a marshland forest in the sunshine taken from above by a drone

Forest for the trees: WWF-Canada’s year in conservation

December 18, 2023

Year in Review 2023 began with the promise of progress. The Global Biodiversity Framework had just been signed at COP15 in Montreal, setting humanity on a mission to protect and restore a third of planet before... Read More

Year in Review 2023 began with the promise of progress. The Global Biodiversity Framework had just been signed at...
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Feline good: A timeline of tiger conservation in Nepal

July 27, 2023

A look back at the milestone moments and technology that made Nepal’s historic doubling of wild tigers possible. Read More

A look back at the milestone moments and technology that made Nepal’s historic doubling of wild tigers possible.
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Group of people smiling backstage on a red carpet

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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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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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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Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

Global wildlife populations plummeted by an average of 69% in the past 50 years

October 14, 2022

Wildlife have endured an average 69 per cent drop in monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish since 1970, according to the latest Living Planet Report (LPR) from WWF International. Updated every... Read More

Wildlife have endured an average 69 per cent drop in monitored populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish...
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