Category: Media releases

New research shows federal and provincial legislation and policies are failing to adequately protect legally-identified “critical habitat” for southern mountain caribou in British Columbia. Protecting critical habitat is essential for the survival or recovery of species listed as threatened and endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act.

Media statement: Environmental issues and conservation should be non-partisan.

Y2Y welcomes the finalization of an historic partnership agreement to protect and recover caribou in Treaty 8 traditional territory of northern British Columbia.

Qat’Muk in the Purcell ranges of British Columbia is Canada’s newest Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas.

The Vital Ground Foundation and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) purchased two lots totaling 10 acres along northwestern Montana’s Kootenai River in early December, protecting corridor habitat for grizzly bears and other wildlife within an undeveloped subdivision near the town of Troy.

Report shares perspectives of Columbia Basin community leaders on land use planning, tourism and recreation, forestry and bioenergy, technology, climate change, and engagement with First Nations

Y2Y applauds the Alberta government’s decision to advance wildlife crossings in the province.

Y2Y is excited to be working with Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance to support important work to achieve permanent protection of the Badger-Two Medicine area, a vibrant ecological and cultural landscape in the Crown of the Continent.

Today, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) celebrates the formal protection of 83 per cent of Yukon Territory’s Peel watershed.

A recent genomic study led by biologists at the University of Calgary provides fascinating new insights into behaviours that significantly advance our understanding of how to conserve caribou.