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March 29, 2018
CWF celebrates Canada’s historic transformation in marine conservation, recognizing that more strategies will be needed to protect Right Whales and other at risk species
Canada now has an official marine mammal response program thanks to new federal funding and the continued and united efforts of the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and regional response networks in BC, Quebec and Atlantic Canada who make up the Canadian Marine Animal Response Alliance (CMARA).
March 19, 2018
Conservationists Urge Federal Government to Protect American Eel
Increased federal action to protect and recover American Eel is urgently needed, say the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and nine other partners in conservation including the Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative, the Lanark County Stewardship Council, Nature Québec, Ontario Nature, the Ontario Rivers Alliance, and Trout Unlimited Canada.
March 14, 2018
Young Canadians Explore Issues at Heart
After wilderness camping, the first recruits in the Canadian Conservation Corps are getting ready for several months of field training before unveiling their new community service projects.
February 27, 2018
CWF Celebrates Historic Contribution To Conservation In Canada
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) applauds the federal government’s historic new investment of $1.3 billion to advance conservation in Canada and an additional $1 billion to support our environmental laws.
February 26, 2018
CWF Experts Available to Discuss Next Steps for Habitat Conservation as Federal Budget is Announced
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) expects to be applauding new federal investments to protect Canada's land, inland waters and oceans in tomorrow’s federal budget. Protecting key habitats are critical to the future of Canada’s terrestrial and marine wildlife and maintaining a strong connection to nature among Canadians.
February 6, 2018
CWF sees a brighter future for Canada’s freshwater and marine wildlife thanks to proposed changes to Fisheries Act
The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) predicts a brighter future for Canada’s oceans, lakes, and rivers and the species that inhabit them thanks to the proposed changes to the Fisheries Act.
February 1, 2018
CWF THANKS CANADIANS FOR GOING WILD FOR NATURE: Groundhog Day is the perfect opportunity to share wildlife observations
With Groundhog Day and World Wetlands Day approaching, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is encouraging Canadians to post their wildlife pictures to a growing national online database which has quadrupled in the last year thanks in a large part to the Bioblitz Canada 150 project.
January 17, 2018
CWF Joins Canada Service Corps
Youth will soon be travelling by dog sled, helping species like turtles and eels and having a whale of a time with the Canadian Conservation Corps, a new service program funded by the Government of Canada as part of the Canada Service Corps.
January 9, 2018
Not a second to spare: environmental groups react to Ontario government’s plan for recovering endangered eels
- Ottawa Riverkeeper, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF), Ontario Rivers Alliance (ORA), and Ontario Nature joined forces today in calling for urgent and immediate action by the Ontario government to reverse the ongoing decline of the endangered American Eel, whose numbers have collapsed by a staggering 99% in Ontario since the 1980s. The call comes in the final days of the province’s public consultation on its draft Government Response Statement — in essence, it’s an action plan for recovering this endangered species. While applauding the publication of these long-delayed commitments, the groups and their supporters are urging Ontario to go further — and faster — than what it is proposing.
December 15, 2017
