UN’s bleak biodiversity report highlights Canada’s Indigenous protected areas
Canada’s efforts to set up marine conservation areas in the Arctic and partner with Indigenous and Inuit communities in protecting
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Indigenous government secures $2M to conserve traditional lands in northwestern Canada
The government of Canada announced Friday it will inject $2 million into the Canada Nature Fund to help conserve Indigenous
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Wells Fargo becomes third major US bank to nix Arctic oil investment
Wells Fargo says it won’t finance oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The bank’s announcement follows similar policies
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Canadian Indigenous leaders stress need for less “colonial” approach to caribou conservation in North
For the next five days, Colville Lake, N.W.T., is the centre of the Sahtú. Leaders from across the region and
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More wolves killed since new government incentives in northwest Canada
Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial
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Northern Canadians want caribou calving grounds protected, WWF says
Populations of barren-ground caribou in Canada’s Arctic are plummeting to the point they may never recover, says Brandon Laforest of
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Helsinki University christens new vessel for Baltic Sea research
A new research vessel was christened in Helsinki last week that will improve and modernize Finland’s Baltic Sea research capabilities.
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Finland’s endangered Saimaa ringed seal population reaches 400
Conservationists have succeeded in smashing a target for numbers of the rare and severely endangered Saimaa ringed seal, with more
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Rare geological formation near Yellowknife, Northern Canada almost gone
What’s 11,000 years old and likely almost all used up? The sandpits by the Yellowknife airport, in Northern Canada. For
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North America’s bird population down three billion since 1970, Arctic breeders hit hard
There are nearly three billion fewer birds in Canada and the United States than there were half a century ago,
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Migratory birds still sighted as far as southern Finland
According to nature conservation organisation Birdlife Finland, small migratory birds from Lapland were observed in the southernmost parts of Finland
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Ottawa and Inuit in Atlantic Canada to launch study on protected marine area
A coastal area adjacent to the Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador in Atlantic Canada is under consideration to
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Sanikiluaq, Nunavut wins $5.5M to lay groundwork for protected area on Belcher Islands
A project to expand community-driven science and lay the groundwork for a protected conservation area on the Belcher Islands has
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Final agreement signed to protect Peel watershed in northwestern Canada
It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final
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Major land use agreement to be signed in Yukon, northwestern Canada
It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final
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