Media Releases

FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T., May 24, 2018 – World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) are honoured to announce that unparalleled conservation leader Grand Chief Herb Norwegian, 66, of Dehcho First Nations is the winner of the 2018 $10,000 Glen Davis Conservation Leadership Prize....

TORONTO, May 17, 2018 – This month and next, kids across Canada will hit the ground running for Kids’ Run for Nature, a series of 1 km, 3 km and 5 km fun runs and fundraising events in support of World Wildlife Fund Canada.   The community event was founded in 2015...

NORTHERN ALBERTA, May 17, 2018 – World Wildlife Fund Canada is thrilled to see one of Canada’s longest wild rivers protected from future development through the creation this week of new provincial parks in Alberta. WWF-Canada recently identified the Birch River as one of the country’s top 10 wild...

A new WWF-Canada guide designed to help mariners in the eastern Arctic identify and avoid marine mammals is being unveiled at a Canadian Marine Advisory Council meeting in Montreal today. With summer sea ice on the decline and industrial pressures increasing, shipping traffic in the Canadian Arctic has steadily...

Event Details The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw, is a joint conservation initiative between Ocean Wise and WWF-Canada. Since 1994, hundreds of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast have rolled up their sleeves to remove over 1.2 million kilograms of litter, helping to make...

TORONTO, April 20, 2018 — By sinking old Christmas trees to improve habitat in Ontario, restoring passages for endangered Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon and working with farmers to reclaim agricultural wetlands in Saskatchewan, water-conservation groups across the country are improving Canada’s freshwater future with support from the Loblaw...

Event Details The Kids’ Run for Nature is a 1k, 3k and 5k fun run that gives kids the chance to get active in nature and raise funds for the conservation of the wildlife they care deeply about. The Kids’ Run for Nature is coming to parks and greenspaces...

TORONTO, April 17, 2018 – With a federal report on the protection of woodland caribou expected later this month, and growing provincial complaints about the costs of implementing required conservation actions, WWF-Canada is calling on all parties to stop passing the buck and instead work collaboratively to protect critical...

Position Description The ideal candidate for our Digital Communications Platforms Specialist is a high-energy, organized and creative project manager who will create and sustain high-quality sites, landing pages, online tools and general web infrastructure to help achieve WWF-Canada’s conservation and fundraising goals.    Key Responsibilities Identify opportunities to optimize...

ST. JOHN’S, April 11, 2018 — World Wildlife Fund Canada is deeply concerned after the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board’s (C-NLOPB) call for exploration licences in a vast portion of the Northeast Newfoundland Slope, a marine refuge.  The refuge, which bans bottom-contact fisheries, was created four months ago...

TORONTO, April 8, 2018 – World Wildlife Fund Canada’s CN Tower Climb for Nature raised $1.44 million and counting for Canadian wildlife this weekend, making it the most successful climb in the event’s 28-year history. More than 8,500 people registered to climb all 1,776 steps to the top of...