The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is working hard to expand the protected areas system across Canada, with an emphasis on the most endangered ecosystems (typically in southern Canada and coveted for logging, suburban sprawl or agricultural conversion) and with a novel approach that emphasizes the engagement of non-traditional allies (businesses, unions, faith groups, and others) to expand and strengthen the movement, ensuring concrete support for land-embedded communities (eg. Conservation financing to support Indigenous Protected Areas), and overall working on the large-scale awareness and engagement of Canadians in general on key campaigns and issues to enhance ecosystem literacy.
The EEA is aiming to raise $30,000 in grassroots fundraising by Environment Day June 5th, 2023. These funds will help us draft key environmental legislation with lawyers and ecologists for a national Endangered Ecosystems Act, ensure the protection of old-growth forests across BC, continue making a series of mini-documentary films on the amazing, most endangered ecosystems across Canada (Prairie grasslands, Carolinian forests, Great Lakes-St. Lawrence lowlands, BC's Interior Dry Forests, Eastern Hardwood Swamp Forests, Alberta’s Foothills…all coming up!), and undertake major outreach to businesses, unions and faith groups, and undertaking major public mobilization nationally and across Canada to ensure politicians hear from Canadians on the need to expand the protected areas system with an emphasis on the most endangered ecosystems.