THE DECADE OF CONSERVATION - TIME FOR AMBITION AND COLLABORATION

Territories and the federal The first Report Card looked back over Thanks to the work of CPAWS and government for making positive the past decade and assigned grades others, Canada’s pledge to once again strides for protected areas over to the provinces, territories and federal lead the world in conservation may just the past decade. [...] IMPAC5 is an opportunity to shore up commitments made at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity in China, the One Ocean Summit in France, and the United Nations Ocean Conference in Portugal. [...] CPAWS celebrated when Canada joined the Global Ocean Alliance in July 2020 which is working towards protecting 30% of our ocean by 2030, put nature and climate at the heart of COVID-19 recovery in the Speech from the Throne and by signing the Leader’s Pledge for Nature, and joined the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, a group of over 30 countries championing an ambitious nature conser. [...] PETER HOLCOMB Later that month, the government of Quebec announced In Quebec, years of work by CPAWS Quebec and the addition of 66,000 km2 new protected areas in the others to protect the Magpie River from development province, including more than 39,000 km2 of protected resulted in a landmark decision by the regional munici- areas in Eeyou Istchee – a territory of high bio-cultural pality and the. [...] QUEBEC This summer CPAWS Quebec celebrated a victory for the protection of the marine life in the Fjord Saguenay against the GNL/Gazoduc project - great news for the St-Lawrence Beluga whale population! CPAWS Quebec and its partners also mobilized thousands of citizens to send letters urging the premier to stop the logging activity in the Péribonka protected area and succeeded in stopping the dest.