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Top Canadian and International Scientists Form Advisory Panel To Protect Canada’s Boreal Forest

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:05:32 +0000

Toronto, Canada – On the heels of increasingly disturbing reports about ecosystem and species losses worldwide, an interdisciplinary team of some of North America’s top scientists have volunteere...

D’éminents scientifiques forment un groupe consultatif et se joignent à l’effort de protection de la forêt boréale du Canada

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:05:33 +0000

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Campagne internationale de conservation de la forêt boréale

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Salmon Farm Companies seek Massive Expansion of Current Open Net-Cage Production Sites.

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:35 +0000

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Major Campaign Aims To Protect B.C.'s Endangered Species

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:34 +0000

Vancouver – Four of British Columbia’s leading environmental group...

Winners announced in the David Suzuki garden photo contest

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:33 +0000

VANCOUVER – Five-thousand people have voted and the results are in – 10 of this country’s top green-thumbs have been crowned as Canada’s pesticide-free garden leaders, the David Suzuki Foundat...

Climate Action Team moves province one step closer to a low carbon future

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:32 +0000

VANCOUVER – The recommendations of British Columbia’s Climate Action Team (CAT) are a positive step forward in reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions, says a coalition of environmental...

B.C. sockeye added to red list of threatened species

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:31 +0000

VANCOUVER – The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has placed Pacific sockeye salmon on its Red List of Threatened Species, indicating that certain sockeye subpopulations are ...

David Suzuki Foundation opens Montreal office, launches French website

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:29 +0000

MONTREAL - The David Suzuki Foundation announced today that it has appointed Karel Mayrand director of DSF Quebec and has opened its newest office in Montreal. “Canadians and Québécois mus...

Canada’s Pacific North Coast needs better management in the face of declining ocean health

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:28 +0000

VANCOUVER – Better management is needed to protect the diversity and abundance of marine life off British Columbia’s Pacific North Coast, one of the few places of its kind in the world, according ...

La Fondation David Suzuki demande aux détaillants de cesser la vente de pesticides chimiques toxiques

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:24 +0000

Toronto – Quatre grandes chaînes de détaillants ont décidé de cesser la vente de pesticides toxiques pour pelouses et jardins au Canada. C’est ce qui ressort d’une enquête publiée aujourd

David Suzuki Foundation urges retailers to stop selling toxic chemical pesticides

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:27 +0000

Toronto – The David Suzuki Foundation released the results of a survey today that finds four major retailers in Canada have phased out or are in the process of phasing out toxic chemical lawn and ga...

David Suzuki Foundation reports the Ontario Greenbelt contributes $2.6 billion to local economy

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:05:13 +0000

TORONTO – A new report released by the David Suzuki Foundation with support from the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation today has found that Ontario’s Greenbelt contributes $2.6 billion worth of ...

Documents reveal governments acting to undermine species law

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:05:25 +0000

VANCOUVER, BC - In a closely-watched lawsuit about the endangered Nooksack dace, leading environmental groups will present new evidence in Federal Court tomorrow (Tuesday, September 9 at 11 a.m. at 70...

MEDIA RELEASE: Less logging of BC’s old-growth forests makes more economic sense

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:05:10 +0000

VANCOUVER – A sophisticated new study by researchers at Simon Fraser University shows that in the vast majority of cases it makes more economic sense to conserve forests than it does to cut them dow...

Nine additional pesticides must be added to new Ontario ban

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:05:07 +0000

Toronto – Ontario’s new pesticide regulations now under development must add nine more to the preliminary list of banned lawn and garden pesticides so as not to undermine restrictions already in p...