Volunteer Profiles

We value the contributions that all of our volunteers bring to CPAWS Yukon's campaigns and activities. We know you value volunteering as a great way to build skills, get involved in your community, and make an important contribution. We welcome your ideas and creativity.

Through profiles of our past and current volunteers, we both pay tribute to some great efforts and commitment, and also give you some examples of how you can contribute. We're working on some new profiles, and plan to have them posted very soon. We hope you'll find them inspiring.

Till then, we invite you to take a look at our volunteering opportunities page, and we look forward to hearing from you!

Volunteers help keep our office humming …

Winter, 2008

During the fall of '07 and winter of '08 we continue to be grateful for the abundance of new volunteers helping to keep our conservation work humming at the CPAWS-Yukon office.

Pamela Stagg volunteered remotely from Ontario. She is a freelance writer working on display material on a theme she is very passionate about and the Yukon is fortunate to have so much of – the boreal forest. Keep your eye out for her work at one of our next displays. She also assisted with this issue of our newsletter. Thanks, Pamela.

This fall, Kloé Redondo, a student from France who is here to learn English, has come in every week to help us process media clippings and enter them in a database. Over the last few months we have seen her understanding of the English language improve dramatically. We are thankful for her dedication, as she comes in regardless of the weather (and this northern weather is quite new to her!) Thanks, Kloé.

David Blakeburn also cheerfully tackled our media clipping database, working away at some of the backlogged articles. Organized media clippings are important in the work that we do. They allow us to reference past events and to hold politicians accountable to statements made in the media. Thanks, David.

Meanwhile, Paul Mantle continues to update the CPAWS Library on a regular basis. We are very thankful for his years of volunteering as the CPAWS Librarian. Thanks, Paul.

Marianne Theoret-Poupart was kind enough to translate our advertisement for a new Campaign Coordinator into French so that we could advertise this position more widely. Thanks, Marianne.

And finally, special thanks to all our volunteers who helped during our efforts to prevent the approval of a winter road for uranium mining exploration in the Wind River watershed. We appreciate the efforts of those many people who wrote to provide a conservation voice on this issue. This is fantastic because it demonstrates the broad public support, beyond CPAWS, for conservation in the Yukon. For more on this issue, take a look at the original Wind River action alert.

We can always use more assistance and welcome all new volunteers. Our volunteer task descriptions are now posted here on our Web site. We are also open to other ideas on how you might be able to volunteer for us. If you have a skill that you think we could benefit from, please contact us!

Thanks everyone!