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New youth enviro leadership program in ON

May 22, 2013 - Toronto - Wildlands League is pleased to announce the Ontario launch of Get Outside, a highly successful youth leadership program started in British Columbia for youth ages 14-18.

"Get Outside Ontario is a collaborative project that brings youth into nature," says Janet Sumner, Executive Director for the group. "We are thrilled to give teens the opportunity to learn how to camp, to learn about local nature, and to get to know what's in their own backyard," Sumner added.

Read the full release.


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Enviro groups suspend further work with Resolute under CBFA

Commitment to ongoing work with other forestry companies remains strong

TORONTO May 21, 2013 -  On the third anniversary of the signing of the historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), environmental signatories are suspending further work with Resolute Forest Products.  They remain committed to continuing their work with other signatory companies to plan for protection of critical Boreal woodland caribou habitat and sustainable forest management practices. 

"We are pleased with the groundbreaking solutions for conservation we have forged under the CBFA with companies such as Tembec, Atlantic Pacific Forest Industries, and Millar Western Forest Products in northeastern Ontario and Alberta respectively," said Janet Sumner of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS).

Read the entire press release here.


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KI expedition featured: CanGeo

Last August, 8 KI First Nation members paddled from Big Trout Lake to Hudson's Bay, along the Fawn and Severn Rivers.

 
Photo: Allan Lissner/ KIlands.org/earthroots.org

Read about it in the current issue of Canadian Geographic.

 



Cliffs EA raises alarm bells

Wildlands is alarmed by the latest Cliffs ToR for its EA for the Ring of Fire.

Read more here.  (Note: Large file. Please be patient while the page loads.)

Wildlands seeks mediation.

READ the Globe and Mail article: "Environmental approvals for Ring of Fire mine running into difficulty"target=blank 

Cumulative Disturbances Map, Attawapiskat River
(Clicking the image below will open a 3MB map.  Please allow time to load).

 

NEW: More information on the Cumulative Disturbances map can be found here.



Anna speaks at CIM

Anna Baggio made a presentation on the Ring of Fire to the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Conference, Toronto, May 7, 2013.  .

 Click here to view the presentation.



Get Outside comes to Ontario!

Wildlands League is excited to bring the Get Outside program to Ontario, fostering youth leaders for the environment. 

Learn about this opportunity here.



New Blog by John Cutfeet

Read the latest blog post on "Noopemig", The Global Rallying Cry from Capulálpam, by John Cutfeet, Wildlands League's Aboriginal Watershed Program Coordinator.



WL hopes for new mining Min.

Read WL's Anna Baggio comments on the forthcoming appointment of the new Minister of Northern Development and Mines, featured on the CBC here.



ON stop delaying NE caribou plan

Read comments from Anna Baggio and Janet Sumners in the February 11, 2013 edition of the Globe and Mail: "Red tape threatens delicate logging truce in Ontario".


Wildlands in Montreal Gazette

Read comments from Wildlands League's Anna Baggio in "Cry for new environmental laws unites Idle No More and chiefs, but not Ottawa", featured in the Montreal Gazette, January 16, 2013.



Wildlands in The Star

Read the January 6, 2013 Toronto Star article on cottage leases in Algonquin Park, featuring comments from Wildlands League's Janet Sumner here.



Wildlands in the Globe and Mail

Read the story on private cottages in Algonquin Park.

Read our press release, Ontario Abandons Ecological Integrity in Algonquin?

Read our EBR submission and legal opinion.



Wildlands Op-Ed in TheStar.com

Read Janet and Anna's Op-Ed featured in TheStar.com: Will Ontario get it right in northern Ring of Fire?

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Keeping the Land: New Book

 

Co-Authored by Wildlands League's John Cutfeet, "Keeping the Land" documents how the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug’s traditional territory was threatened by mining exploration in 2006, revealing how the people followed their customary duty to protect the land, asking the mining exploration company to leave.  Buy it here.



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New Wild Notes Newsletter

Wildlands League's winter edition of Wild Notes features the KI Watershed Declaration.

Wildlands League invited KI to share their vision for protecting the lands and waters of Big Trout Lake and the Fawn River, located within the Severn watershed, one of the last undisturbed watersheds of Northern Ontario.

Read the newsletter here.



CARIBOU - Holding The Line

DOWNLOAD "Holding the Line" - NOW in two sections for easier downloading. 

Section 1 (1-45) Section 2 (46-58)



NEW MAP: Threats to Albany River

Check out our new map of cumulative disturbance in the Albany River Watershed and see all the proposed developments including the Ring of Fire mining road that will affect the Albany River.

Report on Caribou Range

Read Wildlands League's report:  A snapshot of caribou range condition in Ontario, July 2009. 



New: Forest Biomass paper

Read "Increasing pressures to use forest biomass: A conservation viewpoint" by Trevor Hesselink, CPAWS Wildlands League Forest Program Director, recently published in The Forestry Chronicle.



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