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French TORONTO, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is pleased to see nature remain a key focus of the Government of Canada. NCC, a not-for-profit land conservation group, welcomes the historic investment in nature protection in Budget 2021, aimed at addressing the dual threats of climate change and biodiversity loss. The federal budget earmarks a $2.3 billion commitment to conserve 1 million square kilometres of land over five years. Combined with funding for the Nature Legacy Initiative in Budget 2018, this is a major boost toward protecting 25 per ce...

The Leaders Summit on Climate is the perfect opportunity to recommit to birds and people and the places we all need.

“I’m very  relieved and very proud of all the hard work of our team and of all the  leaders and Tahltans that have been advocating to protect this area for  the decades,” Chad Norman Day, president of the Tahltan Central  Government, said in an interview. “Mount Edziza is one of those areas,  similar to the Stikine River, the Sacred Headwaters and Sheslay Valley,  that is amongst the most sacred places to the Tahltan people  culturally.” Skeena Resources, a mining company with several interests on Tahltan territory,  agreed to surrender its claims on the mountain’s slope...

Posted: Apr 07, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 7 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland will table the federal budget on April 19 in Ottawa.(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press) This column is an opinion by Gauri Sreenivasan, Mandy Gull and Jacqueline Scott .  Sreenivasan is policy director at Nature Canada. Gull is Deputy Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government. Scott is a PhD student at the University of Toronto and founder of Black Outdoors.  The federal government is hard at work finalizing a budget that will underwrite our path forward out of the pand...

Indigenous and Western Scientists and Knowledge Holders Partnering for the Public Good Protect the Arctic Refuge youth rally in front of the Yukon legislative assembly. Katarzyna Nowak Indigenous and Western Scientists and Knowledge Holders Partnering for the Public Good Katarzyna Nowak, lecturer at University of Alberta / Yukon University; Jared Gonet, PhD student at University of Alberta / Yukon University., UCS Science Network, UCS | April 7, 2021, 3:25 pm EDT This post ...