The Nature Conservation
The Nature Conservation of Canada (or NCC) is a national organization that envisions to protect areas with natural diversity for their natural value and for the benefit for future generations.They will secure important natural areas through purchase, donation and other ways, and mange the property over a long period of time. The birth of NCC was the year 1962 in Toronto, Ontario. They saw the destruction of nature around them so they launched programs to take direct private action towards protecting natural spaces and promoting conservation. They have started projects in every province in Canada and have made a impact in Canada. They have started a private conservation with local ranchers, The W.Garfield Weston Foundation and the Poole Family; Waterton Park Front project in Alberta. They have successfully conserved many places in Canada.
Their values are:
Their values are:
- They are guided with the best available conservation science
- They work in a non-Confrontational manner
- Mange lands and water for their natural values
- Respect and promote nature's own processes
- They recognize the need for people to sustain themselves and live productively while conserving our own countries natural habitats and species
Canadian Parks and Wilderness SocietyThe Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (also known as CPAWS) is a national organization dedicated to conserving land and bodies of water to protect wildlife. They began in 1963 as the National and Provincial Parks Association of Canada, initially focusing on promoting Canadian Parks in an attempt to shift Canada's focus to one that appreciated nature. Now the organization has changed to more direct involvement with the appreciation of nature; through its protection and by spreading awareness.
Currently, the main actions of CPAWS are:
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They have at least one base of operations located in each province and territory in Canada. Alberta has two locations, one in Edmonton, and one in Calgary near Calgary Olympic Park.
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Nelson, Gordon. "My Years with CPAWS." CPAWS - Celebrating Success in Protecting Nature. Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Web. 16 May 2016. <http://cpaws.org/about/cfy-story-gordon-nelson>.
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World Wildlife FundThe WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is an NGO started up by Julian Huxley, Edward Max Nicholson, Peter Scott, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfield and Prince Phillip Duke of Edinburgh. WWF and their goals started up in 1961. The goal of WWF is to save the wildlife of the earth, not just that, they are also a global leader who have been active in protecting the earth for over 50 years. Some of the other conservation efforts by the WWF include focusing on the Amazon, Arctic, China for a Global Shift, Climate & Energy, Coastal East Africa, Coral Triangle, Forest and Climate, Green Heart of Africa, Heart of Borneo, Living Himalayas, Market Transformation, Smart Fishing, Tigers. The idea of the WWF’s logo is that they wanted to choose an animal that was popular and widely recognized, they wanted it to be endangered and also wanted to save on printing costs with the black and white of the animal. The giant panda is one animal that the WWF does focus on saving. WWF has focused on wildlife protection for a long time. Some conservation efforts for wildlife have been partnering with global companies such as Coke, work on projects all around the world and work with experts on the problems around the world and how to combat them. The main goal of WWF is to proceed with wildlife conservation and to make people aware about their efforts, recently on earth day 2016 WWF partnered with Apple to create a new app to provide information to people about their conservation efforts while still making it fun and attractive for everyone using it.
"WWF." World Wildlife Fund. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. <http://wwf.panda.org>. "WWF Main Page." World Wildlife Fund. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2016. <http://www.worldwildlife.org>. |
The Sierra Club of Canada The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir in 1892 in response to unsustainable logging practices in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Muir is notable for many of his great achievements and is widely considered to be a father of conservation. The Sierra Club is certainly among his most lasting legacies. It started out as a small group of concerned citizens, and over the years began to grow into one of North America’s largest conservation organizations. The Sierra Club is dedicated to preserving the environment according to the United Nations Earth Charter. This Charter is based on four main principles:
Because of these basic principles, the Sierra Club focusses not only on the environment, but also on how the natural world interacts with people, and how we can learn to enjoy and benefit from nature. The Canadian chapter of the Sierra Club was founded in 1969 in response to planned logging in the Nitinat Triangle and along the West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. As a result of these efforts, these areas are in a far more natural state than they would have been otherwise. Initially, the Canadian chapter of the club was a branch of the American Sierra Club, however it was established as an independent foundation in 1972, and is today based out of Ottawa. Current projects the Sierra Club is undertaking in Canada include children's’ programs such as the Wild Child Forest School in Atlantic Canada, which aims to expose schoolchildren to the many benefits of being active in the natural world. The Sierra Club is also currently working towards pressuring governments to increase the stringency and enforcement of Environmental Impact Assessments, which provide a legal requirement to protect the environment. In addition, the #SaveTheBees project is working on raising awareness of the many issues facing bees in Canada, most notably the regulations surrounding pesticides harmful to bees. Images: "Sierra Club Canada Logo." Sierra Club Canada Foundation. Digital Image. Web. 5 May, 2016. "John Muir Cane." Wikimedia Commons. Digital Image. Web. 5 May, 2016. |
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Oceana
Oceana was founded in 2001 by a group of foundations, those being The Pew Charitable Trust, Oak Foundation, Marisla Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Previously in 1999 a study was commissioned to discover how much current environmental nonprofit groups were doing to protect the oceans. So Oceana was formed to focus solely on restoring as well as protecting the world’s oceans on an international scale. Oceana is all about protecting the oceans, so all of their goals are reality to the oceans. They plan to do achieve these goals and objectives by:
Some of the Current projects Oceana is working on is saving the oceans, and feeding the world, reducing by-catch, stopping and reducing ocean pollution and climate change. Oceana deals with any and all issues related to the oceans, some of their goals are more general while others are directed at one thing. While there work focuses on saving the oceans when looking at their campaigns their aim is also to feed everyone on the planet. They plan to do this by improving the management of global fishing. |