Wildlife & Natural Spaces

You cannot protect what you do not know. Nature’s diversity exists all around us. SCCF works with individuals, partners and community groups to promote knowledge of wildlife and natural environments. We work to preserve and protect for all to enjoy, both now and in the future.

THESE SEVEN BABIES

Melissa Munro — July 8, 2019

You likely recall the joyous news in the new year at the safe arrival of seven right whale newborns.

It was extraordinary news, given that not one baby had been born the year before.

But we find ourselves facing the devastating news that six critically important right whales have died in just the last few weeks. And right now, three others are entangled.

It means these new little lives must be protected on an emergency basis.

I fear for their safety, at such a precarious time in their first precious months of life.

Help Save Sable Island.

Melissa Munro — December 30, 2018

One of Canada’s and the world’s most pristine places has been put on the bidding block for oil drilling and seismic blasting.

That place is Sable Island.

It is a place of magic and myth. It looms large in our minds as an iconic symbol of all that is wild and beautiful and untouchable.

It is home to wild horses, grey seals, and birds and species unique to just this island.

Your Gift Can Help Save Baby Blues - And We're Going Back To Court To Do It!

Melissa Munro — December 27, 2018

And we're going back to court to protect them!

In just a few weeks, I return to the courtroom with our legal team to fight a final phase of a court challenge to protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Our first appearance last December was to simply be given “standing”, (meaning a judge would first have to decide if we could even be heard in the larger, future battle to fight the re-issuance of an oil company’s licence that had expired.) And we won that one!

Celebrate Gretchen's Important Work With a Gift In Her Honour - December 2018

Melissa Munro — December 20, 2018

Gretchen Fitzgerald, our senior staff director, is celebrating a birthday.

Beyond her responsibilities leading Sierra Club – from media interviews at all hours, to racing to coalition meetings, to being our well-informed voice to the public – Gretchen is quietly out there on Facebook trying to raise funds for Sierra Club Canada Foundation on the occasion of her birthday this month.

But we want to surprise her with something special.

Giving Tuesday Dizolve Laundry Eco-strips and Sierra Quarter-Zip Top November 27 2018

Melissa Munro — November 27, 2018

You get us to the highest courts so we can fight to protect the world's most endangered whales.

You demand protections for our irreplaceable Great Lakes.

You fiercely call for a ban of pesticides that are killing bees and other pollinators so critical to the functioning of our ecosystems.