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‘We need to understand — we are nature:’ Indigenous leaders speak out at COP15

December 16, 2022

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press conference in the media room featuring speakers from three Indigenous nations. It was an opportunity... Read More

On the eve of the world’s environment ministers arriving in Montreal for COP15’s endgame negotiations, WWF-Canada hosted a press...
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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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How IPCAs advance protection and reconciliation

December 1, 2022

If you’re a regular WWF visitor, you’re already fairly familiar with protected areas — geographical regions of land or water with restrictions on human activities to safeguard habitat. This conservation tool offers the promise... Read More

If you’re a regular WWF visitor, you’re already fairly familiar with protected areas — geographical regions of land or...
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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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Close up of a single polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba.

How community-led patrols are keeping people and polar bears safe

November 20, 2022

This past summer, Jason Harasimo, who helms our Arctic Species Conservation Fund program out of WWF-Canada’s Iqaluit office, visited Whale Cove to attend a training for patrollers. He writes about his experience. Read More

This past summer, Jason Harasimo, who helms our Arctic Species Conservation Fund program out of WWF-Canada’s Iqaluit office, visited...
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What you need to know about COP26, the most crucial climate change summit yet

October 29, 2021

The UN climate change conference COP26 is arriving on the heels of this past summer’s deadly climate change-fueled wildfires, floods, hurricanes and heat dome. It’s almost as if the planet itself was doing everything... Read More

The UN climate change conference COP26 is arriving on the heels of this past summer’s deadly climate change-fueled wildfires,...
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Our commitment to truth and reconciliation

September 29, 2022

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, is meant to “honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the... Read More

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, is...
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Baffinland blockade solidarity protest in Taloyoak, NU in February 2021

Taloyoak working to create Aqviqtuuq Inuit protected and conserved area

March 18, 2021

By Jimmy Ullikatalik, manager of Spence Bay HTA in Taloyoak, NU Taloyoak is the most northerly community on the mainland in Canada, and the friendliest in Nunavut. From here on the southwestern coast of... Read More

By Jimmy Ullikatalik, manager of Spence Bay HTA in Taloyoak, NU Taloyoak is the most northerly community on the...
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The Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak at sunrise

The tiny town of Taloyoak is an Arctic inspiration

February 9, 2021

UPDATE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PROJECT IN TALOYOAK, NU NABS $451,000 PRIZE For the Inuktitut version, please click here. Perched on the edge of Aqviqtuuq, also known as the Boothia Peninsula, the Nunavut hamlet of Taloyoak... Read More

UPDATE: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PROJECT IN TALOYOAK, NU NABS $451,000 PRIZE For the Inuktitut version, please click here. Perched on...
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Megan Leslie on turning ‘possibilities into realities’ in 2021

January 29, 2021

In last January’s Fieldnotes newsletter, we interviewed WWF-Canada president and CEO Megan Leslie about the year to come. (Let’s just say our foresight wasn’t 2020.) But we’re giving it another try, even though, once... Read More

In last January’s Fieldnotes newsletter, we interviewed WWF-Canada president and CEO Megan Leslie about the year to come. (Let’s...
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Indigenous-led conservation is the path forward

July 13, 2020

We believe that Indigenous-led conservation is the most effective, equitable and efficient way to safeguard the nature that all of us hold dear. Our work has evolved over time to be more inclusive and, where possible,... Read More

We believe that Indigenous-led conservation is the most effective, equitable and efficient way to safeguard the nature that all of...
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