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CPPAWS' vision is to keep at least half of Canada's public land and water wild – forever. As a national charity with 13 chapters, over 50,000 supporters, and hundreds of volunteers, CPAWS works collaboratively with governments, local communities, industry, and indigenous peoples to protect Canada's public land and water.
Andy Russell (Canadian author) Andrew G. A. Russell, CM (1915 – June 1, 2005) was a Canadian wilderness guide, outfitter, author, photographer, filmmaker, rancher, conservationist, and environmentalist. In recognition of his environmental advocacy he received honorary degrees from the University of Lethbridge, the University of Calgary, and ...
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a private, non-profit, charitable nature conservation and restoration organisation based in Canada.Since its founding in 1962, the organisation and its partners have protected 15,000,000 hectares (37,000,000 acres) of land and water across Canada, which includes the natural habitat of more than a quarter of the country’s endangered species. [2]
The Canadian Wildlife Service, a division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, manages the National Wildlife Areas, Marine Wildlife Areas, and Migratory Bird Sanctuaries for the protection of wildlife. [ 61][ 62] Provincial and territorial governments also protect areas within their boundaries. [ 63]
Nature Canada traces its roots back to September 30, 1939, when Reginald Whittemore launched the magazine Canadian Nature in honour of his late wife, Mabel Frances Whittemore. The organization claims this makes Nature Canada the oldest national nature conservation charity in Canada, however Ducks Unlimited Canada was founded two years earlier ...
The International Friends of Nature (IFN), based in Vienna, is the umbrella organisation of the national Friends of Nature federations.. Publications of the various sections include a handbook detailing all the houses and magazines published by various sections (such as Naturefriends - Great Britain - Bulletin, Les Amis de La Nature, La Migranto – in Esperanto by "Esperantistoj Naturamikoj ...
The Canadian Museum of Nature ( French: Musée canadien de la nature; CMN) is a national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region. The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, a 18,910-square-metre structure (203,500 sq ft) in Ottawa, Ontario.
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of environmental activists.Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its diversity" [3] and focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, genetic engineering, anti-war [4] and anti ...