Learn more and get involved today in critical initiatives to protect Canada's wilderness. Become one of a growing number of people who are speaking up for protecting Canada's Big Wild.
The Big Wild™ highlights key initiatives that are poised to achieve significant progress toward our vision and urgently require a critical mass of public support in order to succeed. The first group of initiatives featured here are organized by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). The Big Wild will continue to highlight CPAWS - and other - campaigns across the country to help protect Canada's large-scale landscapes and waterscapes.
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The waters of Gwaii Haanas |
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| Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia |
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Learn more about this unprotected, biodiversity rich source of marine life off the north coast of British Columbia surrounding the islands formerly known as the “Queen Charlottes".
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Save Canada’s Eastern Woodlands |
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| Eastern Canada |
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There is still time to protect precious great wild spaces within a day’s drive of millions of people in cities like Montreal, Toronto and New York.
Despite heavy urban development, surprisingly wild networks of forests and wetlands still stretch from On...
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Protect Canada’s Southern Rockies |
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| The Great Yellowstone to Yukon Wilderness Corridor |
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By protecting this vital link in one of the world’s great remaining mountain ecosystems we’ll secure room to roam for threatened wildlife like Grizzly bears and wolves.
The wild, forested slopes and valleys of Alberta and British Columbia’s southern Roc...
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Put Nature First in Parks… Forever |
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| Ontario’s Algonquin and Quebec’s Mont Orford. |
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Some of Canada’s most famous parks, like Ontario’s Algonquin and Quebec’s Mont Orford, are threatened by logging and urban development.
Canada’s natural parks are a vital part of the solution to protecting our wilderness… so long as people don’t damage...
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Caribou and You |
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| Canada |
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By saving the threatened woodland caribou’s remaining Boreal forest habitat across Canada, we’ll also help protect one of the world’s largest remaining carbon reserves, and slow the effects of climate change.
Where woodland caribou populations are health...
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