World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada)

World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) stands as one of the country's major conservation groups and is part of the global WWF network. It plays an important role in safeguarding, managing, and restoring the environment. In Canada and the United States, the organization is referred to as the World Wildlife Fund, while it is known as the World Wide Fund for Nature in other parts of the world. WWF-Canada focuses on protecting endangered species, advocating for sustainable management of oceans and freshwater resources, and creating plans for renewable energy initiatives.

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Elbows up for nature: The smart economics of voting to protect our environment

1 week ago | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Monday’s election arrives at a particularly uncertain moment in Canadian history, amid the ongoing domestic and international instability that has defined recent days, months and years. While our economy and sovereignty are currently under attack, eliciting cries of “elbows up” in the face of increasing aggression from the United States, our biodiversity and climate have been threatened for much longer.
How Indigenous communities in Canada are already implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework

Dec 23, 2024 | wwf.ca | Tina Knezevic

“Industrialization has had a major devastating effect on every community that I’ve worked with — and I’ve worked with many communities both on the East Coast and West Coast of Canada, and a few in the interior. They know that they have to start building up their own science programs and their own monitoring programs.
Inuit communities connect to conserve

Dec 11, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Talking to neighbours in person has always been the best way to learn and find common ground. But while just as true for neighbouring communities, it’s much harder when it’s 25 Nunavut communities spread across a couple million square kilometres.
COP16: How the world plans to halt and reverse biodiversity loss (and how we plan to ensure they do) - WWF.CA

Oct 21, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

Remember COP15, the landmark UN biodiversity summit in Montreal a couple winters back? That December 2022 international meeting, relocated from China due to the pandemic, resulted in the dramatic late-night signing of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), a mouthful of a name for a treaty that is fundamentally simple: halt and reverse biodiversity loss, which 196 countries agreed to.
Painting the economy 'blue': How Nunavut can balance extraction with conservation

Sep 18, 2024 | wwf.ca | Tina Knezevic

Nunavut is home to the fastest growing economy in Canada, with resource extraction accounting for almost 40 per cent of territorial GDP. The territory also boasts sustainable economic opportunities, rooted in traditional Inuit knowledge and skills, that can bolster local economies, strengthen communities and improve food security. They are also closely tied to healthy ecosystems and wildlife populations.
State of emergency: Will a new ruling on spotted owls force Canada to protect endangered orcas?

Jun 27, 2024 | wwf.ca | Joshua Ostroff

“Either the threats are imminent or not. Either the threats concern the survival or recovery of the species, or they do not,” Justice Yvan Roy wrote in his ruling against the federal government for its delay in protecting the Endangered northern spotted owl.
How WWF is helping to ensure the Global Biodiversity Framework's success

May 22, 2024 | wwf.ca | Rebecca Spring

This week, negotiators are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya for the fourth of five discussions focused on implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) — signed at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) in Montreal during December 2022 — and its clear mission to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. “Time is not on our side,” said Inger Andersen, UN under-secretary-general and executive-director of the United Nations Environment Programme, in her opening remarks.
Measuring forest carbon at the push of a button

May 6, 2024 | wwf.ca | Tina Knezevic

Monitoring carbon in nature allows us to understand the effects that protecting, managing and restoring habitats (known as nature-based climate solutions, or NbCS) have on reducing carbon in the atmosphere. Current approaches are costly, unreliable, and time- and labour-intensive, so WWF-Canada’s Nature x Carbon Tech Challenge sought out more cost-effective and user-friendly carbon-measurement technologies.
Using satellites and AI to help communities steward their carbon stocks

May 6, 2024 | wwf.ca | Tina Knezevic

Nature sequesters and stores carbon in its plants and soils, so we know that protecting, managing and restoring these natural habitats helps us fight climate change. But it hasn’t always been easy to measure how much carbon is being captured by nature over time so that we can prioritize the most effective actions in the most impactful places. Approaches to date have been costly, labour and time intensive, or have delivered incomplete data.
Calculating ecosystem carbon down to the tree level

May 3, 2024 | wwf.ca | Tina Knezevic

We know that protecting, managing and restoring habitats (also referred to as Nature-based climate solutions, or NbCS) can help us fight climate change by reducing carbon in the atmosphere. But until we can measure how much carbon is captured by nature over time, we don’t know which conservation efforts to invest in or prioritize — and where to take these actions — to deliver the biggest benefit to the climate.