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50 Stories: Safeguarding turtles
On April 29, 2011, WWF celebrated 50 years of environmental conservation. Join us as we highlight 50 stories in 50 days, looking back at what we’ve achieved together and looking forward to another 50...
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Canada Celebrates World Oceans Day
Celebrations started early in Halifax – typical for Maritimers. On Friday, June 3, WWF joined other environmental and fisheries organizations at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and on the Halifax...
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50 Stories: Promoting responsible seafood
On April 29, 2011, WWF celebrated 50 years of environmental conservation. Join us as we highlight 50 stories in 50 days, looking back at what we’ve achieved together and looking forward to another 50...
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50 Stories: Making fishing environmentally responsible
On April 29, 2011, WWF celebrated 50 years of environmental conservation. Join us as we highlight 50 stories in 50 days, looking back at what we’ve achieved together and looking forward to another 50...
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50 Stories: Smart fishing
On April 29, 2011, WWF celebrated 50 years of environmental conservation. Join us as we highlight 50 stories in 50 days, looking back at what we’ve achieved together and looking forward to another 50...
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50 Stories: Protecting tropical oceans
On April 29, 2011, WWF celebrated 50 years of environmental conservation. Join us as we highlight 50 stories in 50 days, looking back at what we’ve achieved together and looking forward to another 50...
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Team NAFO
by Janice Ryan WWF Fisheries Specialist In my third year the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization was founded in good faith to conserve and manage the fishery resources that straddled the 200...
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Our oceans and you
It’s June – the time of year to pull out camping gear and dust off marine charts to plot my annual summer sea kayak excursion with friends into West Coast waters. One of the things I most appreciate...
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The long road to cod recovery
By Robert Rangeley During these 20 years there should have been plenty of time to learn lessons and change practices so that all fisheries are sustainably managed and species at risk are firmly on the...
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Dogs have masters; cats have slaves. I’m a slave.
My cats know that I work at WWF-Canada, on conservation science, business partnership and sustainability standards. Much of that bores them. But I reminded them that the health of oceans is at stake...
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Furor over ocean fertilization
In 2007, when WWF got wind of an almost identical sounding proposal to dump 100 tons of iron ore in the ocean west of the Galapagos, masterminded by one of the same people behind the Haida Gwaii...
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In Vietnam, helping catfish farming become more sustainable
From a net-lined hole in the floor of the cavernous wooden wellboat, the silvery catch originating from the enormous ponds of Hung Vuong Corporation’s farm, is scooped by workers into large blue...
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Canadian sharks get profiled
By Jarrett Corke, Shark Project Coordinator – Halifax Office, WWF-Canada In a recent publication, researchers conducted a content analysis of 300 articles from 20 major Australia and U.S. newspapers....
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Species of the week: The orca!
Orcas can be found in all of Canada's oceans including coastal seas and inlets. The various populations of orcas in Canada are all considered at risk. Pollution, diminishing prey and human interaction...
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What can BC do to keep the Fraser, the world’s largest salmon producing...
Though last week’s Cohen Commission report placed the responsibility for wild salmon squarely where it should be: on the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, it also emphasized the vital role...
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Fish can’t speak out, but you can! Save the Fisheries Act- it’s not too late!
While the news this week that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has no formal plans to consult the public or stakeholders on still-pending changes to the Fisheries Act included in Bill C-38...
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Supporting made-in-Canada solutions
It was learning to scuba dive that introduced Roz Ivey to the stunning diversity of marine life and prompted her lifelong commitment to marine conservation. That’s why she has taken a strong interest...
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Simon J. Mitchell: Working for the river we love
Simon J. Mitchell wakes up every morning to a view of the St. John flowing through fields and hardwood forests, bald eagles soaring overhead. “That’s why a lot of people live in New Brunswick,” says...
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Update from the St. John River- what we’re working on in the New Year
We are embarking on a social ecological inventory (SEI) project with Brock University. Utilizing standard research methodologies, we will be working to identify and speak with groups, organizations,...
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Canada gets a sample of what’s to come… and it tastes like tilapia!
By Bob Rangeley, Vice President conservation and Atlantic region Starting today, Canadian seafood lovers will have a new, better choice in their frozen seafood department. Loblaw announced that...
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