CANADIAN WEBSITES ABOUT ENVIRONMENT/ LAS WEBS DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE EN CANADA/ SITES CANADIENS DANS LE DOMAINE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT
About.com (News Online)
Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE)
Membership centered organization that exists to improve our quality of life by protecting our natural heritage and moving toward environmental sustainability.
The Canadian Arctic Resources Committee
CARC is working and encouraging others to treat the North with deliberation, care, and good stewardship.
Canadian Council of Ministers of the environment (CCME)
The major intergovernmental forum in Canada for discussion and joint action on environmental issues of national and international concern.
The Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN)
Facilitates networking between environmental organizations and others who share its mandate — To Protect The Earth And Promote Ecologically Sound Ways Of Life.
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
CPAWS is Canada’s pre-eminent, non-profit wilderness protection organization.
David Suzuki Foundation
Simple solutions that will help you fight global warming right now.
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Ducks Unlimited Canada’s mission is to conserve wetlands and associated habitats for the benefit of North America’s waterfowl, which in turn provide healthy environments for wildlife and people
Environement Canada
Canadian Biodiversity Information Governmental Network.
Evergreen
Innovative charity that explores the relationship between nature and community in urban spaces.
Environment Canada
Environment Canada’s mandate is to preserve and enhance the quality of the natural environment; conserve Canada’s renewable resources; conserve and protect Canada’s water resources; forecast weather and environmental change; enforce rules relating to boundary waters; and coordinate environmental policies and programs for the federal government.
First Nations Environmental Network
It is a national organization of individuals, non-profit groups and Nations who are actively working on environmental issues.
Forest Ethics
Because protecting forests is everyone’s business.
GreenNet
GreenNet supports a progressive community working for Peace, the Environment, Gender Equality and Social Justice, through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs).
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Canada
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Promotes sustainable development in decision-making internationally by contributing new knowledge and concepts, analyzing policies, and building partnerships to amplify these messages.
Marine Protected Areas Strategy for Canada’s Pacific Coast
Natural Life Magazine
This is the online home of Natural Life magazine, which has been helping people around the world live a greener lifestyle since 1976.
NatureServe Explorer
An online Encyclopedia of Life: an authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada.
NORTHWEST WILDLIFE PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Through educational and stewardship activities, NWPS is working towards preserving wildlife and wildlife habitat for their own intrinsic worth and for the appreciation of all.
One Northwest
New tools and strategies for engaging people in protecting the environment.
Raincoast
The Raincoast Conservation Foundation is a non-profit research and public education organization. We work with scientists, First Nations, government and non-governmental organizations to build support for decisions that protect marine and rainforest habitat on BC’s central and north coast.
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network protects forests and the rights of their inhabitants by campaigning to break America’s oil addiction, promote sustainable logging, and bring green ethics to Wall Street.
RCO On-Line
Promoting environmental sustainability through waste minimization and resource conservation.
Save the Coquitlam River
This is a website dedicated to preserving the ecological future of the Coquitlam River, which is currently being exploited by environmentally harmful local industry.
Sea Sheperd
- Investigating violations -
- Enforcing laws -
- Protecting marine wildlife worldwide .
Sierra Club of Canada
Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter is a democratic, grassroots organization dedicated to the conservation of British Columbia’s natural legacy. We are one of five chapters of Sierra Club of Canada.
Sierra Legal
Sierra Legal is Canada’s foremost national non-profit dedicated to enforcing and strengthening the laws that safeguard our environment, wildlife, and public health.
Sightline Institute
Sightline Institute (formerly Northwest Environment Watch) is a not-for-profit research and communication center–a think tank–based in Seattle and founded in 1993 by Alan Durning. Sightline’s mission is to bring about sustainability–a healthy, lasting prosperity grounded in place. It’s a slow-motion revolution, but it’s happening.
Society Promoting Environemental Conservation (SPEC)
If you care about living in one of the most livable cities in North America, now is the time to take action to keep it that way!
The Spirit Bear Youth Coalition
As logging in the spirit bear’s last intact habitat remains paused for now, the Youth Coalition looks at the spirit bear’s role in the increasingly high profile issue of climate change.
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN)
Is working to support local struggles and strengthen the cooperation between individuals, NGOs and indigenous peoples and nations concerned with the protection, restoration and sustainable use of the world’s boreal forests by means that ensure the integrity of natural processes and dynamics.
The United Nations Association in Canada
Strives for a better world through a variety of national projects focused on specific issues and audiences.
Valhalla Wilderness Society
It was founded in the small village of New Denver, British Columbia, in 1975. It started as a group of local residents who wanted to save the forested slopes of the Valhalla Range from logging. It took eight years of extensive involvement to win the park. Along the way, the Society became involved in efforts to attain better forest practices outside of parks.
Wildlife Rescue (Refuge)
Wildlife Rescue Association of BC provides leadership in the care and rehabilitation of injured, orphaned
and pollution damaged wildlife.
The Western Canada Wilderness Committee
was founded in BC in 1980, and is now the largest membership-based, citizen-funded wilderness preservation organization in Canada. Their passion is saving wilderness and wildlife, and in all of their work they are inspired and informed by the wild places they seek to protect.
World Environment News
Planet Ark’s daily Reuters World Environment News
WWF Canada
WWF Canada pursues a mission to save life on Earth through four conservation programs: Endangered Species, Endangered Spaces and Wildlife Toxicology in Canada and an International program in Latin America.