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Climate Emergency: Why Renewable Energy Is More Important Than Ever

January 3, 2020–Anne Bell

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Climate Change

© Ryan McGilchrist CC BY-SA 2.0

On December 4th, Ontario’s Auditor General, reported that the provincial government’s climate plan was not supported by sound evidence and would fail to meet greenhouse gas emission targets. Given the ...

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Put Nature First in Rondeau Provincial Park

December 6, 2019–Anne Bell

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Habitat•Protected Places•Species at Risk•Wild Species

Nodding pogonias © David McAdoo CC BY 2.0

Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Rondeau Provincial Park, we’ve waited long enough. For over 60 years, the Government of Ontario has acknowledged the need to ...

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Make Way For Pits and Quarries!

October 4, 2019–Anne Bell

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Conservation News•Protected Places

Quarry © Noah Cole

Here we go again. Relentless in the pursuit of its “open for business” agenda the Government of Ontario wants to weaken protections for nature in order to fast-track development across ...

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Wrongly accused: Ontario’s wolves and coyotes are in the crosshairs

September 5, 2019–Anne Bell

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Conservation News

Grey wolf cubs © John Pitcher

Without a shred of supporting scientific evidence, the Government of Ontario is proposing to open up hunting of wolves and coyotes across the north. Under the guise of moose conservation, ...

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A Golden Opportunity: Make Provincial Wildlife Areas Count

August 29, 2019–Anne Bell

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Conservation News•Protected Places

Oak Ridges Moraine © Jason Kalmbach c/o Ecospark

As a party to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada has an international obligation to protect at least 17 percent of its lands and inland waters by 2020.   ...

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