LOOKING BACK ON YEARS OF CONSERVATION

A major three-day international conference on the underlying causes of biodiversity loss organized by CPAWS Quebec concluded with the unveiling of the Montreal Call to Action, supported by representatives of the City of Montreal, the governments of Canada and Quebec, and the Cree Nation Government. [...] The is, in its power to amplify a common nation’s subsequent protected-areas push was nothing short of sense of purpose across diff erent remarkable and paved the way for its current commitment to regions; CPAWS members in one part protect 30 percent of Canadian land and seas by the end of the of the country, for instance, could be decade. [...] Bowing to pressure, the federal and provincial governments agree with the Council of the Haida Nation to protect the area by creating the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. [...] communities makes the The Budget 2018 announcement is the nation’s case for the creation largest-ever investment in nature and marks a of the 26,000-square- quantum step in conservation funding in Canada. [...] In 2009, the successful push resulted in the expansion of the Nahanni National Park Reserve—a 30,000-square-kilometre IPCA that’s now among the largest in the world.