Media Releases

New Great Lakes data maps highlight urgent need to reduce impact of record-setting salt levels on freshwater species and ecosystems Southern Ontario waterways are showing dangerously increasing road salt levels in WWF-Canada’s Great Lakes Chloride Summer Hot Spot Map.  Although road salt – sodium chloride, calcium chloride and magnesium...

Toronto, June 10, 2019 — WWF-Canada welcomes the federal government’s announcement to ban single-use plastic by 2021. While details are still to come, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that determining which products fall under the ban will be based in scientific evidence.  “This is a great win...

TORONTO, June 7, 2019 – The Ontario government’s just-passed More Homes, More Choice Act threatens the province’s at-risk wildlife and their habitats by gutting protections in the interest of urban expansion, industrial development and resource extraction.  Bill 108 amends 2007’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), weakening protections for the province’s...

OTTAWA, June 4, 2019 — Over 90 per cent of Canadians support the call to protect 30 per cent of the country’s oceans by 2030, according to a survey released today by Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, West Coast Environmental Law and World Wildlife Fund Canada....

ST. JOHN’S, May 24, 2019 – World Wildlife Fund Canada welcomes the decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to reduce the total allowable catch (TAC) of Atlantic mackerel, an important forage fish species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the coast of Nova Scotia, the Bay of Fundy...