By Geraldine Kenny
“Hope is hard to come by these days”, admits Jane Goodall. She is well aware why people are feeling a sense of despair. But she has a remedy for that. “Stop looking all around the world, just think about where you are, or some project that you really care about, and roll up your sleeves and do something about that.”
Continue reading Protecting and recovering species at risk and their habitat
By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Cortes Island’s annual community Christmas dinner at the Gorge community hall has been underway for 21 years. But due to pandemic restrictions over the past two years, it had to be take out only. Organizer Izabelle Perry is looking forward to this year welcoming the public back to a sit-down traditional Christmas dinner in a festive atmosphere.
Continue reading The annual Gorge Hall community Christmas dinner on Cortes Island returns
By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada promises to restore 19 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2030 as international negotiations to save the world’s rapidly dwindling biodiversity carry on in Montreal.
The Dec. 12 announcement makes Canada the 62nd country to sign onto the Bonn Challenge, an initiative launched in 2011 by Germany and the International Union for Conservation of Nature that aims to restore 350 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes by 2030 to tackle the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change.
Continue reading Canada signs onto global forest restoration challenge at COP15
By Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
B.C. Premier David Eby’s newly appointed cabinet is about to decide the fate of a handful of proposed projects, each of which comes with a slew of implications to biodiversity and climate.
While provincial ministers wrestle with the decisions, delegates from across the country and around the world are gathered at COP15, the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal. The aim of the conference is to secure government commitments to slow the global biodiversity crisis underway — the crisis is sometimes referred to as the sixth mass extinction and is the first to be human-caused.
Continue reading B.C. will soon decide the fate of four projects with big climate and biodiversity impacts
By Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Calen Carswel has been in recovery nearly as long as he’s been alive.
The 61-year-old lost his older sister, Eleanor, in a car accident when he was just four. The absence of her love and emotional support, Carswel said, sent him seeking comfort almost everywhere he could find.
Carswel says he turned to sugar and television as a child, and then to alcohol, pornography and cocaine as a young man living in Lillooet, Newfoundland and Vancouver.
Continue reading Vancouver’s Recovery Café Is an ‘Oasis in the Desert’
