Our terrestrial work centres around B.C.’s remaining wilderness – most of it is public lands. We seek specific wilderness conservation from provincial, federal and First Nations governments. Our goal is to create large, meaningful protected areas with ecological strength – places that can nurture nature through climate change and shelter biodiversity forever.
Check out the mountains, valleys and grasslands CPAWS wants to protect next!
In this section
- Boreal Caribou
- In northeast B.C., boreal caribou are in dire straits. These animals try to survive in a forest heavily fragmented by gas wells, logging, hydro operations and countless roads. So how do you save B.C.’s most endangered caribou?
- Finlay-Omineca Wilderness
- There is a quiet but amazing wilderness in the Cassiar and Skeena Mountains in northern B.C. Centered roughly around the headwaters of the Finlay River, it sits nestled immediately south of sprawling Spatsizi and the other amazing “Stikine Country Parks” and just off the southwest flank of the huge Muskwa-Kechika Management Area.
- Muskwa-Kechika (Northern Rockies)
- The Muskwa-Kechika is B.C.’s largest “managed” landscape – it’s a huge area of the northern Rockies stretching 6.4 million hectares. As a managed wilderness, all industry in the M-K must meet a higher standard of environmental sensitivity than in the rest of British Columbia. The M-K contains a constellation of parks and protected areas but the goal is to protect the environmental health of entire region.
- Ne’ah’/Horseranch
- On the southern edge of the Liard River plain pointing north, a mountain range stands alone rising from the plateau. Caribou rely on its rich and expansive open slopes above the treeline. Mountain sheep and goats live in its steeper climbs. Moose command the wetlands below, near lakes with evocative names like Looncry and Deadwood.
