News Releases

MEDIA ADVISORY: Caribou mascot “Bou” to arrive on Parliament Hill with 32,000 names in support of woodland caribou protection WHEN: February 16th, 2012 11:15 AM: Photo Op on Parliament Hill in front of the Peace Tower. 11:45 AM: Press Conference - Charles Lynch Gallery, Room 130S, House of Commons

Tuesday, February 14 WHITEHORSE, YUKON - CPAWS Yukon and the Yukon Conservation Society condemn the Yukon government's attempt to hijack the land-use planning process and open the Peel Watershed to industrial development. Today, at a meeting with its First Nation partners in the Peel planning process, government imposed eight new principles designed to allow roads, uranium, coal and hard rock mining, and oil and gas development in one of the last intact boreal ecosystems on the continent. These arbitrary pro-development principles, produced behind closed doors by Yukon government, replace principles developed co-operatively by government and First Nations representatives in 2008.

Ottawa -- The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is disappointed that Parks Canada has approved a proposal by Brewster Canada Ltd. for the controversial Glacier Discovery Walk in Jasper National Park. The development will result in a 300-metre walkway and massive glass-floored "skywalk” along the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park, replacing a highway pullout where park visitors can currently park their vehicles and enjoy the free view. Since the project was first made public, CPAWS has opposed this development proposal, as have many other organizations and individuals from across Canada. “We’re opposed to this massive development because the long-term impact it may have on wildlife in the area, including mountain goats and other sensitive species, is simply not known,” says Éric Hébert-Daly, CPAWS National Executive Director, based in Ottawa.

Vancouver -- The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) welcomes the release today by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) of a major new report called Sustaining Canada’s Marine Biodiversity: Responding to the Challenges Posed by Climate Change, Fisheries, and Aquaculture. The report echoes concerns that CPAWS has voiced that Canada has much work ahead to catch up to the rest of the world when it comes to marine conservation and sustainability

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is pleased to confer the J.B. Harkin Medal for Conservation on Nikita Lopoukhine for his lifetime of commitment to promoting scientific discussion and conservation within Parks Canada and for promoting Canadian conservation and park values globally.

Today, Federal Minister of Environment, the Honourable Peter Kent announced the launch of public consultations for the re-introduction of plains bison to Banff National Park.

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is pleased to be honouring Nikita (Nik) Lopoukhine with its J.B. Harkin Conservation Award for his lifetime contribution to protecting Canada’s parks and wilderness at a reception on February 1, 2012 at 7 PM at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa.

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is cheering the protection of a huge area of Manitoba's Boreal Forest announced today.

(Calgary, AB) – A massive theme park-like attraction proposed for Jasper National Park is drawing large-scale opposition from individuals who have just learned about it. In the past 24 hours, more than 1,300 people have sent letters to Parks Canada in opposition to the "Glacier Discovery Walk" being proposed by U.S.-owned Brewster Travel Canada.