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Old-growth forests need meaningful protections, not just deferrals, says Y2Y.

New financial support is leveraging technology to help communities better understand recreation needs and patterns in and around western Canada’s mountain communities.

Global guidelines published today by the International Union of Conservation of Nature show ecological connectivity can enhance protected areas, conserve biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change and should be included in conservation planning.

Guidelines for protecting the interconnections of nature to enhance protected areas, conserve biodiversity, and increase resilience to climate change Today, the IUCN WCPA Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group released the first-ever…

A recent decision by the Alberta Government to allow open-pit coal mining is short-sighted and robs many people of places they love — places they like to play in and enjoy nature and wild spaces in.

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.