In 2022, Canada hosted a pivotal UN nature summit in Montreal, where the Liberal government led a diplomatic push for a global deal on protecting ecosystems. Countries agreed to conserve 30 per cent of the world’s lands and oceans. Canada pledged to reach that target by 2030 with a plan to more than double the current amount of protected spaces. Three years later, the landscape is very different. Steven Guilbeault, the former environmental minister … has quit cabinet over new moves to expand oil and gas resource development. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget barely mentions nature and his government is focused instead on major resource projects. Now, environmental groups and others are concerned that the apparent pivot from the Carney government will reverse years of progress made on nature conservation. Among the initiatives now facing uncertainty: new national parks and protected areas, as well as federal support for the “win-win” Indigenous guardians program…