IQALUIT, Nunavut — Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, announced that the Government of Canada will invest $6.6 million over four years to support the Government of Nunavut’s multi-year research and monitoring activities of the 13 barren-ground, Dolphin Union, and Peary Caribou herds in the territory. … The investment supports aerial surveys, the launch of a telemetry program using remote sensors, and significant data analysis. Data gathered on caribou migration patterns, habitat usage, and other trends will guide future decisions involving the culturally-significant species—such as allowable harvest quotas and improving understanding of the impacts of development. Caribou have provided food, tools, and clothes to the Inuit for thousands of years. The investment also supports ongoing engagement activities in communities throughout Nunavut in partnership with regional wildlife and hunting organizations.
Thanks to Google Earth Engine, people are able to see the effects of humans on our ecosystems happen in a flash. On Vancouver Island specifically, it’s easy to see the deforestation of Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew as well as several other locations. The provincial government recently made an announcement on efforts in protecting some of Vancouver Island’s last precious old-growth groves and pristine ecosystems. …This innovative tool also sheds light on urban sprawl in metro areas such as Greater Victoria, specifically, the Westshore. In 1984, when the timelapse began, the population of Greater Victoria was around 242,000. Now the population has grown to nearly 398,000. Greater Victoria is limited in where it can sprawl to, but Langford and the entirety of the Westshore have boomed and sprawled considerably over the past 39 years. 
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A report card from B.C. environmental organizations said the province is still continuing to score failing grades as old-growth forests remain at risk. Sierra Club BC, Stand.earth, and the Wilderness Committee issued their fifth report card, assessing the B.C. government’s progress in implementing the Old Growth Strategic Review (OGSR) recommendations. The report card comes two-and-a-half years into the provincial government’s three-year timeline for implementing all 14 recommendations from the OGSR. “It is crucial because we are close to the brink with some of the last endangered old-growth forests.” said Jens Wieting, Sierra Club BC. …“We are nowhere close to the implementation of the three-year promise from the government — it has not translated to the ground,” Wieting said. The organizations gave the province failing grades on issues including action on funding for conservation, changing course in forest stewardship and transparency..jpg)
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service is investing $197 million in 100 project proposals benefiting 22 states and seven tribes, as part of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant program. Funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Community Wildfire Defense Grant program helps communities, tribes, non-profit organizations, state forestry agencies and Alaska Native corporations plan for and mitigate wildfire risks as the nation faces an ongoing wildfire crisis. …Grant proposals underwent a competitive selection process that included review panels made up of state forestry agencies and tribal representatives. …This initial round of investments will assist communities in developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, key roadmaps for addressing wildfire risks locally, as well as fund immediate actions to lower the risk of wildfire on non-federal land for communities where a Community Wildfire Protection Plan is already in place.
A collection of environmental groups suing the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over a logging project in grizzly habitat north of Troy has asked a court to halt work on the project while their lawsuit plays out. The Center for Biological Diversity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, WildEarth Guardians, Native Ecosystems Council and Yaak Valley Forest Council sued the federal agencies last year over the Kootenai National Forest’s Knotty Pine Project. The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho intervened as a defendant alongside the federal agencies. The project entails commercial logging and fuels thinning in an area about 10 miles north-northwest of Troy, around where Yaak River Road meets U.S. Highway 2 just east of the Idaho-Montana border. The project proposes logging 5,070 acres, including 1,000 acres of clear-cut, scattered across several individual units. Most of the work is proposed for northeast of Highway 2 and northwest of Yaak River Road. 
Due to their massive resources and global reach, businesses could contribute immensely to global efforts to reduce biodiversity loss. Within the last few years, businesses have indeed shown interest in biodiversity conservation. However, their current efforts are too limited and perfunctory to be consequential for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity. This article proposes the following five distinct yet mutually reinforcing strategies for bringing about transformative change in how businesses can contribute substantively to biodiversity conservation: (i) making biodiversity protection every business’s business, (ii) giving biodiversity a central stage in the corporate sustainability discourse, (iii) holding companies accountable for biodiversity impacts across their entire supply-chains, (iv) developing biodiversity-friendly organizational cultures so that employees become biodiversity champions, and (v) creating third-party certifications to benchmark and evaluate biodiversity-friendly business practices.
INDIANA — Indiana educators are encouraged to apply for the 2023 Natural Resources Teacher Institute, which will be held June 19-23 at the Forestry Training Center at Morgan-Monroe State Forest. Hosted by the Indiana DNR Division of Forestry and Purdue University Forestry and Natural Resources, this week-long immersive professional development program will provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and tools to effectively teach their students about forest ecology, research, and management in Indiana. There is no cost to participants, and meals and housing are also provided. Daily activities include visiting public and private forest sites, touring forest industry facilities, and exploring forestry research through the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment.
IRELAND — Planting trees where there weren’t any before is a big part of how Ireland plans to achieve its national goal of 18% forest cover by 2050. We’re currently at 11,6%. …Nearly three decades ago, the Government introduced an ambitious plan of planting 20,000 hectares (ha) of forest a year. Rates of afforestation – planting trees on land where there weren’t any before – had reached a high of 23,710ha in 1995. We never got there though and the annual afforestation target has been reduced to 8,000ha in recent years. …But Central Statistics Office figures show that we’ve been missing our afforestation target every single year for at least a decade. Planting reached a high of 8,314 hectares in 2010 and a new low of 2,016 hectares in 2021, just 25% of the target. 
The world is losing 10 million hectares of forest each year due to deforestation – about the size of Iceland, Europe´s second biggest island. In addition, insects damage around 35 million hectares of forest annually. This is extremely serious, not least given the fact that forests are key to combating climate change. 21 March is the International Day of Forests. Iceland, as a matter of fact, is an example of an early man-made ecological disasters. When people mostly of Nordic origin settled the uninhabited island in the late 9th century it was according to legend was generally forested. “At the time of human settlement birch forest and woodland covered 25-40% of Iceland’s land area,” say Edda Sigurdís Oddsdóttir and Arnór Snorrason, respectively heads of research and climate at the Icelandic Forest Service.