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Category: Media releases

Alberta’s newest wildlife crossings a positive investment: Conservationists
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Alberta’s newest wildlife crossings a positive investment: Conservationists

November 5, 2019December 23, 2020

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

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Funding to help protect biodiversity in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
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Funding to help protect biodiversity in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes

October 30, 2019October 8, 2020

New financial support to focus on critical habitat in Alberta’s Rocky Mountain region.

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Albertan nominated for prestigious international conservation prize

October 22, 2019December 23, 2020

This year, Y2Y has a connection to two nominees for the prestigious 2020 Indianapolis Prize for animal conservation.

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Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance receives funding to develop protection policy for Badger-Two Medicine
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Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance receives funding to develop protection policy for Badger-Two Medicine

September 26, 2019December 22, 2020

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.

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Yukon land-use plan for Peel watershed sets standard for conservation and reconciliation
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Yukon land-use plan for Peel watershed sets standard for conservation and reconciliation

August 22, 2019December 23, 2020

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

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Connecting habitat key for caribou, new study shows
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Connecting habitat key for caribou, new study shows

June 10, 2019September 13, 2019

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.

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Community engagement on caribou recovery plans encouraged
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Community engagement on caribou recovery plans encouraged

April 10, 2019June 17, 2021

Following the release of draft agreements in British Columbia regarding caribou recovery, Y2Y encourages community engagement online and at town halls.

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New caribou agreement advances reconciliation and improves wildlife habitat
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New caribou agreement advances reconciliation and improves wildlife habitat

March 21, 2019June 17, 2021

Y2Y congratulates and applauds West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations, the province of British Columbia and Environment and Climate Change Canada in negotiating an agreement to protect and recover caribou in Treaty 8 traditional territory.

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Backcountry users in southeastern B.C. asked to participate in wolverine research
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Backcountry users in southeastern B.C. asked to participate in wolverine research

February 12, 2019October 31, 2019

Researchers are seeking for community scientists to better understand wolverines in southeast British Columbia.

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Global study highlights need for larger conservation designation areas
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Global study highlights need for larger conservation designation areas

April 14, 2017September 17, 2019

A new study published in BioScience examines a bold new approach to halting the world’s extinction crisis through a strategy to protect 50 per cent of the Earth’s land mass.

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Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y®) is a joint Canada-U.S. not-for-profit organization that connects and protects habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so people and nature can thrive.


LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative's head offices are within Treaty 7, signed in 1877 by the Ĩyãħé Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) Nations of Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney; the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) Nations of Siksika, Aapatohsipikani (North Piikani), and Kainai; Tsuut’ina First Nation; and the British Crown.

These lands also overlap with the homelands of Aamskaapipikani (Blackfeet), Secwépemc, Ktunaxa, Mountain Cree, and the Metis Nation of Alberta (Zone 3).

We further acknowledge that the broader Yellowstone to Yukon region overlays the homelands of at least 75 Indigenous groups.


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