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CPAWS congratulates 2009 Boreal leadership award winners

Dehcho First Nations, Manitoba government and Dr. Fiona Schmeigelow honouredThe Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI) hosted its annual Boreal Awards last night at the Chateau Laurier...

CPAWS welcomes Canada's signing of wilderness protection agreement with US, Mexico

CPAWS welcomes the announcement today by the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, of a historic memorandum of understanding between the countries of North...

"What About Mealy Mountains National Park?"

This article was originally published in the Telegram (St. John's) on July 18, 2009. Last Thursday a small group of Newfoundlanders including one Member of...

Progress on Canada's parks slows in 2009

New report marks Canada’s Parks Day, July 18thOttawa – In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, its second annual review of the state of...

Nahanni park expansion enshrined in law

CPAWS is thrilled that Bill C-38, an Act to amend the National Parks Act to expand Nahanni National Park Reserve to over 30,000 km2, six ...

A proud day for Canada: Nahanni becomes one of world's greatest parks

Ottawa - The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is celebrating the historic announcement today by Environment Minister Jim Prentice and DehCho First Nations Grand...

Existing Nahanni National Park Reserve designated a wilderness area

Ottawa - Parks Canada announced over the weekend four new wilderness areas within Canada’s national parks.  The four designated wilderness areas include portions of Waterton...

Leaders respond to CPAWS' election primer

We sent our 2008 Election Primer questions to all 5 parties.  Four of the parties responded.  Here are their answers. Do you support the vision...

2008 Election Primer

UPDATE, October 6:  All but one party has submitted responses to our primer.  Read their answers here.Where do candidates stand on wilderness conservation?Environment is a...

Dehcho First Nations support anticipated Nahanni Park expansion

Today the local Dehcho First Nations gave their approval for an expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve that would protect 95% of the Dehcho part of...

CPAWS welcomes next step in protecting Nahanni watershed

OTTAWA -- CPAWS welcomes today’s announcement by Environment Minister John Baird that lands comprising the headwaters of the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories have...

Major success for Nahanni

Alison Woodley (CPAWS), Darha Philpot (CPAWS-NWT), Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Shannon Haszard (Ducks Unlimited Canada) at Nahanni announcement in Fort Simpson, NWT, August, 2007...

La SNAP se réjouit des progrès de protection de la Nahanni pour toujours

Fort Simpson, Territoires du Nord-Ouest -- La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada (SNAP) applaudit aujourd'hui l'annonce du Premier ministre Stephen Harper:...

Nahanni's greatest test awaits

With expansion comes new concerns David FinchOriginally published in The Calgary Herald on Friday, August 10, 2007"The Nahanni wilderness contains some of the most breathtaking terrain...

Watch CPAWS comment on Nahanni Expansion on CTV News

CTV news interviewed CPAWS' Jill Sturdy on the announced expansion of Nahanni National Park Reserve.Watch the clip here (1:50, preceded by short commercial)...

Nahanni Bat Research Discovers 7 New Species

One of the Nahanni bat species. In 2006, CPAWS-NWT received a research grant from Mountain Equipment Co-op to do a bat survey along the...

CPAWS welcomes federal step towards protecting NWT's Great Boreal wilderness

On June 20, 2007, the Government of Canada extended the interim protection for Edéhzhíe (the Horn Plateau) in the Northwest Territories until October 31, 2008. ...

Canadians vote Nahanni as one of Canada's Seven Wonders

OTTAWA - Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories was voted one of the top choices by Canadians in CBC's "Seven Wonders of Canada"...

CPAWS presents 3500 Nahanni postcards to Environment Minister

CPAWS National Executive Director Anne Levesque and Northern Program Manager Alison Woodley with the 3,500 cards. On May 9, CPAWS staff met with federal...

CPAWS calls on feds to stop road, protect entire Nahanni Watershed

OTTAWA – In the wake of an April decision by the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board to permit reconstruction of a 170 km winter...
May 3, 2007

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