The Authors
This document was prepared by Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Ecojustice, Environmental Defence, Equiterre, Greenpeace Canada, Nature Canada, Pembina Institute, Pollution Probe, Sierra Club Canada, and World Wildlife Fund. We wish to thank the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation for its generous support of this initiative. We also wish to thank our writers, Brad Cundiff, Stephen Hazell, Francois Bregha and Alanna Mitchell, and our design team etc.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is Canada's pre-eminent, non-profit wilderness protection organization. With a network of 13 chapters, 20,000 members, over 50 staff and hundreds of committed volunteers, since 1963 CPAWS has helped to conserve over 400,000 square kilometers of Canada's most treasured wild places in parks and other protected areas- an area nearly seven times the size of Nova Scotia! Learn more at www.cpaws.org
The David Suzuki Foundation is a leading Canadian environmental group that works through science and education to help protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life. The Foundation collaborates with scientists, business and industry, academia, government and non-governmental organizations with the goal of achieving sustainability within a generation. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org
Formerly known as Sierra Legal Defence Fund, Ecojustice is Canada's largest environmental law organization. We go to court to defend the right of Canadians to a healthy environment. Our trusted voice in the courts enables citizens to expose lawbreakers and hold governments accountable. Since 1990, we have created lasting solutions to Canada's environmental problems by winning landmark cases and setting powerful precedents.
Learn more at www.ecojustice.ca
Environmental Defence protects the environment and human health. We research solutions. We educate. We go to court when we have to. All in order to ensure clean air, clean water and thriving ecosystems nationwide, and to bring a halt to Canada's contribution to climate change.
Learn more at www.environmentaldefence.ca
Équiterre (from the French words equity and earth) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting ecological, socially just choices through action, education and research from a standpoint that embraces social justice economic solidarity and the defence of the environment.
Learn more at www.equiterre.org
Greenpeace is an independently funded organization that works to protect the environment. We challenge government and industry to halt harmful practices by negotiating solutions, conducting scientific research, introducing clean alternatives, carrying out peaceful acts of civil disobedience and educating and engaging the public. Greenpeace seeks to: protect biodiversity in all its forms; prevent pollution of the Earth's oceans, land, air and fresh water; end all nuclear threats; promote peace, global disarmament and non-violence.
Learn more at www.greenpeace.org
Nature Canada is a member-based non-profit nature conservation organization dedicated to protecting nature, its diversity, and the processes that sustain it. With strategies based on sound science and passion for nature, Nature Canada effects change on issues of national significance, including bird conservation, wilderness protection, species at risk and national parks.
Learn more at www.naturecanada.ca
The Pembina Institute envisions a world in which our immediate and future needs are met in a manner that protects the earth's living systems; ensures clean air, land and water; prevents dangerous climate change, and provides for a safe and just global community. Our Mission is to advance sustainable energy solutions through innovative research, education, consulting and advocacy.
Learn more at www.pembina.org
Pollution Probe is a Canadian charitable environmental organization that defines environmental problems through research; promotes understanding through education; and, presses for practical solutions through advocacy. Pollution Probe is dedicated to achieving positive and tangible environmental change.
Learn more at www.pollutionprobe.org
Since 1963, Sierra Club Canada has been working to protect the integrity of our global ecosystems. We are a national non-profit organization, made up of about 10,000 members, supporters, and youth affiliate members all across Canada. We have five chapters across the country: British Columbia Chapter, Prairie Chapter, Ontario Chapter, Quebec Chapter and Atlantic Canada Chapter - in addition to our dozens of local groups in communities all across Canada from Cape Breton to Vancouver Island.
Learn more at www.sierraclub.ca
WWF was established in 1961 and operates in more than 100 countries, with over five million supporters worldwide. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature by conserving the world's biological diversity; ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable; and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption. WWF-Canada's main office is in Toronto, with regional conservation offices located in Yellowknife, Vancouver, Prince Rupert, St. Albert, Ottawa, Halifax and Havana, Cuba.
Learn more at www.wwf.ca
