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With over 30,000 members and 30,000 additional
donors and volunteers, the Wilderness Committee is Canada’s
largest membership-based, citizen-funded wilderness protection
group. We’ve helped to gain protection for over 40
major wilderness areas in western Canada, including millions
of hectares of critical wildlife habitats, some of the world’s
last large tracts of old-growth temperate rainforest and
boreal forest. And yet much more remains to be done… |
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The Western Canada Wilderness Committee,
founded in 1980, is a registered non-profit environmental
society with charitable status. With over 30,000 members
from coast to coast to coast, and 30,000 additional donors
and volunteers, we are Canada’s largest membership-based,
citizen funded wilderness protection group. Our head office
is in Vancouver, with field offices in Victoria, Edmonton,
Winnipeg, and Toronto. Success.
We’ve helped to gain protection for over
40 major wilderness areas in western Canada, including
millions of hectares of critical wildlife habitats and
some of the world’s last large tracts of old-growth
temperate rainforest. But much remains to be done.
The Manitoba office has been raising
public awareness of wilderness preservation issues since
opening in 1999, under the direction of Ron Thiessen.
Some notable successes include helping gain permanent
protection for Manigotagan Provincial Park, as well as
interim protection for numerous Park Reserves such as
Poplar River/Nanowin, Sturgeon Bay, and Fisher River.
The Wilderness Committee was also instrumental in having
the Woodland Caribou listed as a threatened species under
the provincial endangered species act, and getting industry
to defer activity from core caribou habitat. At the end
of 2005 Ron Thiessen left to become the Director of CPAWS
Manitoba office. Eric Reder was hired as Manitoba Campaign
Director in 2006. |
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