Y2Y’s work is included in this story about new research showing connecting habitat has positive effects.
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Glacier-Two Medicine Alliance receives funding to develop protection policy for Badger-Two Medicine
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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Climate action panel in Canmore to include prominent environmentalists, community members
Y2Y’s president and chief scientist, Jodi Hilty, among the speakers at a panel discussion on Oct. 1 called Fighting Climate Change – Take Heart, Take Action. Read more in this Rocky Mountain Outlook story, published on Sept. 24, 2019.
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Opinion: Fewer than 1,300 southern mountain caribou remain in B.C.
Fewer than 1,300 southern mountain caribou remain in B.C., and some herds, including the Burnt Pine and South Selkirks, are now locally extinct.
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Grizzlies in Washington’s North Cascades: A question of political climate
Will the Trump administration’s recent changes to the implementation of the Endangered Species Act complicate the delicate strategy of grizzly restoration in this remote Washington wilderness? Y2Y’s Jessie Grossman comments on grizzly recovery in the northwestern U.S. for The Revelator on Sept. 13, 2019.
Read MoreInterning for nature
What is it like to intern at Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative?
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Black bear nips at hiker, warnings in place around Lake Louise
Y2Y’s Hilary Young comments on living near and sharing spaces with wildlife in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. | CTV Calgary, Aug. 27, 2019
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Yukon land-use plan for Peel watershed sets standard for conservation and reconciliation
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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A visit to Northwest Territory’s Nahanni Park Reserve
Naturalist Brian Keating discusses his trip down Northwest Territory’s Nahanni River and Nahanni National Park Reserve with Y2Y’s Aerin Jacob.
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Reconnecting grizzly bear groups
When the Yellowstone to Yukon vision emerged in 1993 we all knew one of the biggest and most urgent tasks was to reconnect the isolated grizzly bear population in Yellowstone with its cousins to the north. This was not simply necessary for grizzly bears, which would otherwise risk being lost locally, or extirpated*, from the region but for other wildlife…
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Why are grizzly bears called umbrella species?
Grizzly bears are often used as an umbrella species. Their need for large wild spaces where they are secure from threats such as roads and development means that when grizzly bear populations are healthy, their habitat also protects about 80 per cent of other species that live in the same region. More than 100,000 grizzly bears once…
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