Hello Endangered Ecosystems Alliance friends!
Please help us reach our Year-End fundraising goal of raising $50,000.
Your donations will go the farthest with us if you want to see outcomes change for the most endangered ecosystems in Canada.
We’ve grown and accomplished much because of thousands of supporters like YOU since our inception six years ago. Coming up, we have huge tasks ahead and need your support to expand our strength. We’re working to:
Ensure that the federal protected areas legislation, the Nature Accountability Bill, is finally passed and strengthened over time. If made into law, it will enshrine Canada’s international commitments to protect nature (currently, 30% by 2030) – and will drive the expansion of the protected areas system across the country - the most important progress that must happen for the sake of the planet and humanity.
Ensure that the newly re-elected BC NDP government keeps moving forward to expand the protected areas system and to end the logging of endangered old-growth forests, with ecosystem-based protection targets ("the gps of protected areas establishment"), old-growth logging deferral funding for First Nations, and the closure of logging loopholes in conservation reserves that are still needed.
Ensure that First Nations have the critical funding for sustainable economic alternatives, stewardship jobs and their capacity needs to establish new protected areas. We’re currently working to directly support several BC First Nations communities. In BC, new protected areas establishment legally must entail First Nations consent and shared decision-making for the province to be able to legislate permanent protection on their unceded lands.
We will start to scale up our campaigns in the Prairie provinces and Ontario in 2025 – with your support!
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance is unique in the Canadian conservation movement with our emphasis on:
Prioritizing the most endangered ecosystems for protection, typically the most biologically rich ecosystems of southern Canada where most of the human population and industry are concentrated,
Engaging non-traditional allies beyond the environmental movement (please sign our national resolution and BC resolution if you own a business, run a faith group, work with a union, or run a non-profit, etc.),
Securing key financial support for First Nations to make their protected areas proposals happen (see some articles farther down in our News section),
Working to educate the public that nature and its protection is vital for their daily, proximate needs – for the economy, our health and well-being, for the climate and to counteract the extinction crisis.
Since our inception six years ago, we’ve:
Played the pivotal role in old-growth protection and ensuring the expansion of the protected areas system in BC, including securing a commitment from the BC NDP government to overhaul of their old-growth management policies, to protect 30% by 2030 of the province's land area (currently 16% is protected), and to secure over $1 billion in indispensable federal-provincial conservation financing dollars to make it happen. So far with local First Nations over 300,000 hectares in Clayoquot Sound, the Incomappleux Valley and the Klinse-za/Twin Sister regions have been protected in recent times, with discussions underway between the BC government and First Nations across BC to protect millions more hectares in diverse ecosystems.
Played an important role from the start in mobilizing the public to move forward national protected areas legislation, with the Nature Accountability Bill now sitting in second reading in the federal Parliament. We need to get this bill through yet.
Worked directly with half a dozen First Nations communities in BC to help them protect the endangered old-growth forests and ecosystems in their territories, helping to secure and raise funds to enable their work.
Played important roles to support regional and local conservation groups across Canada in numerous campaigns, helping to move forward the South Okanagan National Park Reserve proposal in BC (2019), halting open-pit coal mining plans (2021) on vast swaths of Alberta's Rocky Mountains and foothills (yet this issue still won't die...more on that soon), stopping the Alberta government from closing or eliminating over 170 provincial parks, natural areas and recreation areas (2020), reversing the Ontario government's removal of Greenbelt lands (2023), and helping to ensure deferrals on old-growth logging as a precursor to protecting millions of hectares of old-growth forests across BC (ongoing...with work to be done).
Brought on board hundreds of businesses and non-traditional allies to the environmental movement, while helping to raise awareness about the large diversity of endangered ecosystems to millions of Canadians via the news media, social media, and through our own videos.
See some of our videos and follow us on social media