From CPAWS - Celebrate Parks (http://celebrateparks.ca)CPAWS is hosting this contest because we want more Canadians to learn what's so great about our -- your! -- national parks. Most of us live in cities or towns that are far away from some national parks. Even if we haven't been able to visit them for real, all of us can visit them by video. The Celebrate Canada's Parks Video Contest is designed to bring parks to people, no matter where they live. And we hope these videos may just inspire you to plan a visit yourself some day to one or more of these amazing natural treasures. ... continue reading.

From the David Suzuki Foundation - A disaster like the oil spill would devastate our fishing industry. It would destroy many forms of sea life, damage delicate ecosystems and cripple our seafood sector. Canadian Fishers like Steve depend on healthy oceans for work, and we depend on them for food. Celebrate Oceans Day today and ask our leaders to protect our oceans. Read more about it here. ... continue reading.

"Give the orangutan a break!". The latest campaign by Greenpeace UK makes a strong statement on how Nestle's purchases palm oil from companies that destroy Indonesian rainforests: ... continue reading.

canadabigwild — March 24, 2010 — http://www.thebigwild.org/ Founded by Mountain Equipment Co-op and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, The Big Wild is a conservation movement that makes it easy for you to stand up for wilderness protection campaigns. Join us in calling on our political representatives to protect Canada's precious public land and water forever. Do something small to save something big. ... continue reading.

Ottawa - Traditional knowledge held by Canada's Aboriginal people about the Boreal Forest offers western scientists a vitally important information source, according to a report published by the David Suzuki Foundation, the Canadian Boreal Initiative, and the Boreal Songbird Initiative. With the Boreal Forest facing increasing threats from climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and invasive species, this knowledge is more important than ever.The report, Conservation Value of the North American Boreal Forest from an Ethnobotanical Perspective, describes the deep botanical and ecological knowledge that Canada's Aboriginal peoples have gained over thousands of years of using the Boreal Forest as grocery, pharmacy, school, and spiritual centre. The report notes that the value of the Canada's Boreal Forest to Aboriginal people ... continue reading.

Environment Canada is celebrating the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity with a national contest on why nature matters to Canadians. Submissions must be made through Environment Canada's contest homepage between January 28 and February 28. Winners will be notified the week of April 19, 2010 and announced on International Biodiversity Day, May 22.AwardsOne winner and two runners up will be selected from each age group, in each of the two categories.The six grand prize winners will be invited to Ottawa to attend the Grand Re-opening Event of the Canadian Museum of Nature on International Biodiversity Day, May 22, 2010 where their achievement will be announced.Grand prize winning essays will be enlarged to poster size and displayed in public art panels ... continue reading.

Ottawa - Sierra Club Canada is calling on the Canadian Government to review a pesticide deemed perilously toxic to honey bees and recently declared illegal for sale in the United States.The pesticide is believed to impair bees' ability to reproduce. Its approval was fast tracked by Health Canada in 2008 without public consultations for use on fruits and vegetables. The pesticide spirotetramat (manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the trade names Movento and Ultor) was invalidated by a US federal court this past month as a result of a suit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Xerces Society. "We are asking the government to follow through with its strategy of taking its policy cues from the United States and rescind ... continue reading.

Ryan Reynolds and Jason Priestley join forces with Nature Conservancy of Canada. Toronto, ON (November 30, 2009) – Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature. Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes. The special will air coast to coast. It is produced by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the country’s leading land conservation organization. “In the wilderness, animals can take care of themselves. But they are utterly helpless in the face of human carelessness and apathy. Like it or not, their fate rests in our hands,” says Canadian actor, Ryan ... continue reading.

Report Calls for Global Climate Talks to Consider Boreal’s Impact OTTAWA, Ontario—When the world thinks of forests and their value to offset global warming, tropical forests come to mind.  A report released today shows that the global impact of Canada’s boreal forest, which stores nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, has been vastly underestimated. “The Carbon the World Forgot” identifies the boreal forests of North America as not only the cornerstone habitat for key mammal species, but one of the most significant carbon stores in the world, the equivalent of 26 years of global emissions from burning fossil fuels, based on 2006 emissions levels. Globally, these forests store 22 percent of all carbon on the earth’s ... continue reading.

From the David Suzuki Foundation Oceans provide half of the world’s oxygen and moderate the climate so we can live on the Earth’s surface. As a fundamental source of food, energy, water and air, the oceans sustain communities and economies from coast to coast. Despite their importance, less than one per cent of Canada’s oceans are protected. I AM FISH from David Suzuki Foundation on Vimeo.We have a unique opportunity to protect Canada’s oceans before it’s too late. A conservation plan including a network of marine protected areas in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area can help turn things around. But we need your help to make it happen. www.healthyoceans.ca Join David Suzuki on a virtual journey through one ... continue reading.