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.

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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.

Add your name at Protect Peel

Speak up for the Nahanni headwaters: Parks Canada has consulted Canadians on this new park in the headwaters of the South Nahanni watershed, adjacent to the recently expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve. Although the official comment period has ended, your input to Parks Canada is still important.

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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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Protect Chignecto wilderness: The Nova Scotia government has committed to establishing a “large” wilderness area on public lands within, and near, the Chignecto Game Sanctuary. But, the final boundaries of this protected wilderness area have yet to be determined, leaving the entire area vulnerable to clearcutting, open-pit mining, seismic testing, and a wide range of other industrial activities.

Let the premier know why Chignecto is important to you.

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: 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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Love the Castle: Don't log it!: For more than 20 years conservationists have been campaigning to increase protection of Alberta's Castle Special Place, in Waterton National Park's backcountry. But parts of the Castle are due to be logged in coming months.

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Add your voice for 12 by 12: We’re aiming for 12,000 people to endorse this message to the Federal Government to advance marine conservation through the establishment of 12 new marine protected areas by the end of 2012.

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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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Protect Riding Mountain National Park: Help keep Manitoba’s beautiful Riding Mountain National Park protected.

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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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