PLANET IN PERIL

Sierra Club of BC “The scope and scale of the ancient rainforest destruction in this incredible watershed (north Vancouver Island) is unimaginable.” Story here. Bugaboo Crk. Another, earlier example of clearcutting in BC.

Sierra Club BC Wood Buffalo National Park. Photo credit: UNESCO -    Vincent Ko Hon Chiu  Canada has failed to protect its largest World Heritage Site. Based upon a process initiated by Sierra Club BC, UNESCO visited the Peace River Valley in the fall of 2016 to investigate how the Site C dam endangers Wood Buffalo National Park. UNESCO  strongly criticizes Canada for exposing the park to danger.  Story here.

Nation of Change "We cannot stand by and allow oil and gas companies to ruin our climate and pollute our land, water and sacred cultural sites." Story here.

Winnipeg Free Press On Wednesday, Carl Brown Jr. of South Carolina was found guilty of killing an animal that is protected under The Endangered Species and Ecosystems Act. Story here. Photo by Brocken Inaglory.

CBC news Province says neighbourhood is safe, but residents and environmental researcher disagree. Story here.

Sierra Club Canada Foundation. Larry I'm devastated to report that the licence for oil and gas drilling has been approved in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and there’s not one thing whales can do to stop it. We're not giving up and neither are they. At this very moment – mile by mile, heading north – they’re coming back. Over the next few weeks, blue whales will be making their way back to Canadian waters. It’s a brave and often perilous journey.  But they do it because their ancient DNA tells them to come north, as they have for millennia. While some of these whales have been south this winter,  you and I have been working to keep their northern waters safe.

Robb Fraley   Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto Recently, I had the opportunity to check a long-desired item off my bucket list; a visit to the winter home of millions of monarch butterflies in west central  Mexico.  Story here. A Monarch visits a flower-garden in Manitoba. PinP photo.

UN News Centre Millions of children are on the brink of starvation in the worst humanitarian crisis in decades, the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) has warned.  Story here.

Nation of Change The revelations from the unsealed Monsanto emails underscore the vital need for independent science and transparency. Story here. Ground sprayer in Manitoba. PinP photo.

A/J Alternatives Journal by Bob Paehlke The election of Donald Trump is unlike any change in American history. It will transform America’s role in world politics. It is my view that Canadians should not pretend otherwise (however polite our government might choose to be in the diplomatic realm). Story here. Air pollutants from Texas used to be found in the Canadian Arctic. Will history now repeat itself?

Wild bees are going extinct, and yet the pesticide industry is lobbying hard to stop Canada banning one of the most widely used bee-killing pesticides in the world. Will you chip in CA$1 to help save the bees? DONATE CA$1 NOW Dear Larry, Beekeepers have warned us for years about entire bee colonies dying off and disappearing. Now researchers are telling us more than 700 wild bee species in North America are headed toward extinction -- that's more than half of the bee species tested. Canada has announced plans to ban imidacloprid, one of the most widely used bee-killing pesticides in the world, but the pesticide industry is lobbying hard to stop the ban being introduced. With so many bee species headed to extinction we’re redoubling our efforts to convince Canada to ban this bee-killer without delay. If we raise enough money we’ll buy full page “Save the Bees” ads in the Ottawa Hill Times -- the paper that politicians read  -- to make sure they know