wildlife

Wildlife

We focus on protecting large tracts of land, oceans and great freshwater lakes so species like grizzlies, woodland caribou and wolverine have room to roam, and whales and fish can thrive.
Sign the Peel statement of support
Sign the Peel statement of support
Help create the largest protected area in North America by signing on to this statement of support for the First Nations' goal of protecting the entire Peel River watershed.
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Keep the Restigouche Wild
Keep the Restigouche Wild
The Restigouche Watershed is one of Eastern Canada's most spectacular wild watersheds, spreading over 1 million hectares of northern New Brunswick and Quebec's Gaspe region. Only 1% is protected from development, leaving its wild habitats open for logging, mining and development.
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Create a National Park in the South Okanagan-Similkameen
Create a National Park in the South Okanagan-Similkameen

This badger and his desert friends need your help. Their habitat – a dry, warm landscape in southern B.C. – continues to disappear at an alarming rate due to human settlement. You can help create a National Park!

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Keep the Flathead Wild
Keep the Flathead Wild
The Flathead Valley is one of the most biologically important places on earth. A key connection for animals moving north and south through the Rocky Mountains, it is a magical place of great wildness that has never been settled by humans. Help create a National Park in this special area.
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Sign the pledge for caribou
Sign the pledge for caribou

By saving the threatened woodland caribou's remaining Boreal forest habitat across Canada, we'll also help protect one of the world's largest remaining carbon reserves, and slow the effects of climate change.

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Add your voice for protecting Canada's oceans!
Add your voice for protecting Canada's oceans!

Over 16,000 people have signed on in support of marine protection in Canada. Add your voice to support advancing marine conservation through the establishment of 12 new marine protected areas!

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Jasper is not a theme park
Jasper is not a theme park
Canada’s treasured Jasper National Park could be on its way to gaining a theme park-like attraction. US-owned Brewster Travel Canada wants to blast out the side of the cliff beside the Icefields Parkway to build the Glacier Discovery Walk. This would be a walkway and a massive glass-floored "skywalk" extending over the Sunwapta Valley. This may signal the start of a renewed surge of commercial development within our Rocky Mountain national parks.
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Add your voice for protecting Thaidene Nene – the Land of the Ancestors!
Add your voice for protecting Thaidene Nene – the Land of the Ancestors!
Add your voice to support the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation’s vision of establishing Thaidene Nene as a permanent protected area that will conserve this spectacular wilderness area and ensure that Lutsel K’e Dene ways of knowing and doing will inform sustainable livelihoods for generations to come.
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Protect Canada's Species at Risk!
Protect Canada's Species at Risk!
Having a strong federal Species at Risk Act is essential to protect our most vulnerable plants and animals, and the habitat they need to survive and recover on federal lands. Over 650 species are at risk of disappearing forever. Speak up now for a strong federal Species at Risk Act!
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Canada's rich and diverse wildlife is a national icon.  The Boreal forest is home to billions of migratory songbirds, and the Rockies are home to some of the last large mammal populations in North America. We have an incredible opportunity to keep large unbroken tracts of wilderness protected for wildlife.

What CPAWS is doing

Here are some of the species we're working to protect:

Woodland caribou

Woodland caribou herds have declined significantly in the last 100 years. Several herds have disappeared completely. Evidence suggests the majority of these herds will go extinct without conservation action. Lean more and take action at CaribouAndYou.ca.

Atlantic Salmon

The Restigouche River and its tributaries support one of the most productive wild Atlantic salmon populations, with some of the largest salmon, in eastern Canada. CPAWS is working to protect the Restigouche watershed.  Learn more and take action.

Grizzlies

Grizzly bears need room to roam, and Canada's interconnected mountain parks are ideal habitat.  However, development and industrial pressure in the Rocky Mountain region are reducing the bears' numbers. Learn more at CPAWS Southern Alberta.

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