Caviar trade suspended - but can the sturgeon survive?

The suspension of the international trade in caviar from wild sturgeon, announced today by the CITES secretariat in Geneva, has been widely welcomed by environmental groups.

January 3, 2006 [International]

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Aboriginal forestry deals stacking up

The B.C. government is nearing its 100th forestry agreement with aboriginal communities, after signing a flurry of new deals that hand over millions of dollars in timber rights.

January 1, 2006 [B.C.]

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District of Maple Ridge hires full-time environmental pla...

The man who helped Maple Ridge map its vast network of streams using global positioning system technology has been hired on full-time.

December 24, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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Oilpatch welcomes new B.C. licensing plan

Industry backs 'one-window' permit process

December 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Statement by the Prime Minister on the Arctic Refuge

December 22, 2005 [Canada]

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Alito Cannot be Trusted to Protect America's Water, Air, ...

Sierra Club Opposes first Supreme Court Nomination since Bork Statement of David Bookbinder, Sierra Club Senior Attorney

December 20, 2005 [U.S.]

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West Van Council seeks a rockfish conservation area

FOC has created Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCA) throughout coastal B.C. to try and protect rockfish, which are particularly susceptible to over-fishing because they are slow to reach their reproductive cycle.

December 15, 2005 [B.C.]

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UN Conference Agrees To Long Term Actions to Control Glob...

The United Nations Climate Change Conference closed Saturday with the adoption of more than 40 decisions that will strengthen global efforts to fight climate change.

December 11, 2005 [International]

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Why America finally woke up to climate change threat

Goaded by its neighbours, its mayors, its former president and some rubber ducks, the US finally agrees to dialogue

December 11, 2005 [International]

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In Shift, US Agrees to Future Climate Talks

More than 150 nations agreed early Saturday to launch formal talks on mandatory post-2012 reductions in greenhouse gases at the U.N. conference on climate change in Montreal. A last minute capitulation by the U.S. to participate in future climate change discussions on a non-Kyoto track led to the final agreement.

December 10, 2005 [International]

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Spotted Owl Crisis Prompts First Legal Test of Canada's S...

Only 23 spotted owls remain in British Columbia, and Tuesday environmental groups filed the first legal action of its kind under Canada's Species at Risk Act, seeking federal government intervention to protect the critically endangered bird. Sierra Legal Defence Fund is representing the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics and Environmental Defence in the application for judicial review before the Federal Court of Canada.

December 8, 2005 [B.C.]

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2005 Costliest Year for Extreme Weather

The world has suffered more than 200 billion dollars in economic losses as a result of weather-related natural disasters over the past year, making 2005 the costliest year on record, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the Munich Re Foundation at the international climate conference in Montreal.

December 6, 2005 [International]

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Protesters from 30 countries unite to fight global warmin...

The first worldwide demonstration on climate change will coincide with the opening of a key United Nations conference to set out the basis for the reduction of greenhouse gases after the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012.

December 3, 2005 [International]

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New Today's News

Countries meeting at U.N. environmental conference adopted the rules for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol.

November 30, 2005 [International]

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UN examines prospect for climate-change litigation

Companies which contribute to climate change will increasingly face legal action, law firm Freshfields said on Wednesday, launching U.N.-sponsored research which highlights investors' environmental responsibilities.

November 30, 2005 [International]

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Climate change: Seize the day

EU Commissioner Stavros Dimas hopes the international community can work together to combat climate change at this week’s Montreal talks

November 28, 2005 [International]

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Minister Dion Announces United Nations Climate Change Con...

November 27, 2005 [Canada]

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Liberal government announces $1.5B aid to forest industry...

"Canada's actions illustrate what the United States has been saying all along: the Canadian industry is the beneficiary of subsidies that create an un-level playing field to the detriment of the U.S. industry."

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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Canada Grants New Controversial Terminator Patent To US C...

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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Softwood Lumber Ruling in Canada's Favor No Break for For...

Softwood lumber trade with the United States has long driven environmentally unsustainable logging in Canada’s primary and old growth forests.

November 24, 2005 [Canada]

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CATHEDRAL WHITE WASH - Act Now!

November 24, 2005 [Vancouver Island/South Coast]

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Second and Final Cathedral Grove Parking Lot Presentation...

November 24, 2005 [Vancouver Island/South Coast]

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The Science of Rising Temperatures and How It Influences ...

Fifteen years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) submitted to governments its first assessment of the science of climate change. It drew upon a long history of climate science going back several hundred years, as well as research coordinated through the World Climate Research Program, sponsored by the International Council for Science, the World Meteorological Organization and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO.

November 23, 2005 [Canada]

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NDP to undertake fish farm study in B.C.

Fish farm review being watched closely; Robin Austin to lead legislative aquaculture committee .

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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NGOs, Industry Advocates Will Do Their Best to Influence ...

Though they don't have official delegate status, many environmental organizations on both sides of the Kyoto debate will be in Montreal to make contacts and get the latest news.

November 23, 2005 [Canada]

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Environmental NGO's Offer Post-Kyoto Predictions

John Bennett, Executive Director, Climate Action Network, Ottawa, Ont.

November 23, 2005 [Canada]

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Russia Moves to Increase Control Over Charities and Other...

"This is the last sector of civil society that has not fallen under government control," Aleksandr B. Petrov, the deputy director in Moscow for the international group Human Rights Watch, said at a news briefing Tuesday in hope of persuading Parliament to reject or at least amend the legislation.

November 23, 2005 [International]

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B.C.'s Coastal Temperate Rainforest: The Vision Going Fo...

Ecosystem-based Management is a paradigm shift. It amounts to re-engineering an entire regional economy, tuning it to measurable indicators of ecological health and human well being.

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Stand Tall!

November 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Studying substitute animals will not save endangered spec...

The authors find that using substitutes cannot create reliable information about population responses; human induced disturbances will not always affect common and rare species in the same fashion.

November 21, 2005 [U.S.]

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Proposed mine rekindles debate over future of Nahanni Nat...

Unfortunately, Nahanni National Park Reserve protects only a relatively small portion of a larger watershed and ecosystem. The narrow corridor shape of the current park means that many wide-ranging wildlife species, such as woodland caribou, Dall’s sheep, mountain goats and grizzly bears, wander in and out of the park, leaving them vulnerable to the impacts of development outside the park.

November 19, 2005 [B.C.]

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BC Parks sticking with plans for Grove

BC Parks presented their 11 options for a parking lot in Cathedral Grove to a mixed crowd in Port Alberni this week, at the first of two public meetings about the issue.

November 18, 2005 [B.C.]

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Reply to "Massive Empire of Surveillance"- a report in th...

The sweeping surveillance bill introduced in Parliament November 15,2005 called The Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act is a gross violation of Canadian civil liberties, of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and of our Constitutional entitlements.

November 17, 2005 [B.C.]

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Federal Minister Stéphane Dion Announces Changes to the E...

November 17, 2005 [B.C.]

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Mining-law revamp could put millions of public acres up f...

What's Yours Is Mine

November 17, 2005 [U.S.]

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Federal Bear Experts Opt Out of Enviro-Backed Forum

A forum tackling grizzly bear recovery seemed an interesting and quite timely discussion, especially after the Department of Interior recommended on the same day that the animals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem be removed from the endangered species list.

November 17, 2005 [U.S.]

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Innovative tools announced by leading land use groups

November 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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Parks Canada proposes changes to their business license ...

During July and August, Parks carried out consultations on a proposal meant to simplify licensing categories and bring license fees up to date.

November 16, 2005 [Canada]

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Milestones in Wyoming grizzly bear recovery

1903 - 2005 Milestones from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

November 16, 2005 [U.S.]

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Climate Change Threatens Global Tourism Industry, Says Tr...

Climate change poses a growing risk to the tourism industry, the tourists themselves, and the economies that rely on their spending, according to an international trade group

November 15, 2005 [International]

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Grizzly bear protection targeted by U.S. government

Protected for 30 years, grizzlies near Yellowstone National Park could become fair game for hunters after the Bush administration on Tuesday took the first step to remove the bears from the U.S. endangered species list.

November 15, 2005 [U.S.]

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NRDC Says National Park May Become "Bare Of Bears" for Fu...

November 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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Deforestation rate 'alarming', but net loss slowing: FAO

Forest covering an area about the size of Greece disappears each year around the world, but replanting efforts are beginning to reverse the trend, according to a report Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

November 14, 2005 [International]

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CATHEDRAL GROVE'S FATE STILL HANGING IN THE BALANCE

Concerned citizens put a stop to this plan and as a result of public protest the park has been doubled in size. However, to date the public has not been given an opportunity to provide input into the proposed plans for a parking lot. The BC Liberal government is holding open houses to show their latest plans for Cathedral Grove.

November 14, 2005 [B.C.]

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Grizzly Bears To Lose Endangered Species Status

According to the Associated Press, the Interior Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will announce a proposal next week to remove Grizzly Bears from the endangered species list in areas around Yellowstone National Park.

November 13, 2005 [U.S.]

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Terasen takeover by Kinder Morgan approved by utilities c...

The B.C. Utilities Commission announced its approval in a 51-page decision that concluded the sale will not hurt the public interest, despite public concerns about the deal expressed in 8,000 letters received by the commission. "Virtually all letters of comment oppose the transaction," said the commission's decision.

November 12, 2005 [B.C.]

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Canada gravely threatened by climate change - study

A draft report says Canada is more vulnerable to climate change than any other industrialized country, but is unprepared to deal with the impacts.

November 12, 2005 [Canada]

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Fed Move Could Lead to Grizzly Bear Hunts

Grizzly bears in areas surrounding Yellowstone National Park would be removed from the endangered species list under a proposal to be announced next week.

November 11, 2005 [U.S.]

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Martin, Campbell promise solid mtg. with aboriginals

With the federal and provincial governments pushed to act recently due to the spotlight cast upon poor living conditions on aboriginal communities, Campbell said there will be support at the summit for an annual review to track whether conditions are improving.

November 11, 2005 [B.C.]

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Court rejects appeal to connect U.S. plant to B.C. power ...

The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed yesterday an appeal by a U.S. company that wanted to build a power plant in Washington State just south of Abbotsford.

November 11, 2005 [B.C.]

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