Conservation Updates
Read why the Three Rivers are important
What's happening in and around the Peel Watershed?
Rocks in the Peel River canyon,
important habitat for Peregrine Falcon
Photo by Juri Peepre
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April-May, 2007
CPAWS Launches Three Rivers Cross-Canada Tour
In April and May 2007, CPAWS-Yukon's Three Rivers Project is featured in a national tour that brings alive the majestic Peel River watershed to Canadians across the country. Through a 12-city multimedia tour featuring spectacular images, art, original music and the voices of Aboriginal peoples and conservationists who spent a summer journeying down the Three Rivers – the Wind, the Snake and the Bonnet Plume – we’ll introduce thousands of people to one of the most amazing wild places on earth.
Check out www.cpaws.org/threerivers for all the details.
What's happening in the Three Rivers and Peel Watershed?
In February 2007, at a Gathering held in Mayo, Yukon, community and First Nations people produced a powerful vision statement calling for conservation and maintenance of traditional uses of the Peel watershed. The participant’s vision was underscored by an Elders’ statement on the importance of the lands and waters of the Peel. Read the announcement here.
The vision statement has been submitted to the Peel Watershed Planning Commission to inform and guide the Commission on community perspectives in its work on the land use plan for the region.
Earlier this year, in response to the Peel Planning Commission’s call for public comment, CPAWS-Yukon submitted a proposal for protected areas in the Peel watershed based on conservation science, and supported by an economic rationale. Check our Publications and Reports section for all of the pertinent documents.
In March, 2007 the Peel Planning Commission continued working on a Conservation Priorities Assessment for the Peel watershed. The assessment is being prepared by the Conservation Assessment Technical Advisory Group, who have completed the first stage report on conservation criteria and indicators. Click here to view and download supporting documents from the Peel Watershed Planning Commission.
Wind River Trip Draw Prize Winners
Donald Flute of Kelowna won the first draw held last spring. We will announce the winner of the second draw after May 17, 2007. Both Donald and the other lucky draw winner will be heading up to the Yukon to paddle the Wind River. Congratulations!
CPAWS-Yukon continues to work with northern communities
As a result of our Three Rivers northern community tour to Mayo, Ft.McPherson, and Inuvik in June 2006, CPAWS-Yukon is coordinating a Peel watershed community gathering to take place in Mayo, Yukon early in 2007. With Mayo and Ft. McPherson Renewable Resource Councils, local First Nation representatives and community members from the Mackenzie delta to Mayo, the gathering aims to bring people together to develop a shared conservation vision for the the Peel Watershed. With land use planning well underway in the Peel, this timely gathering organized by CPAWS in cooperation with northern communities, will help local people make a valuable contribution to the work of the Peel Land Use Planning Commission.
Click here to learn more about the June 2006 Northern Community Tour.
Three Rivers goes national
Over the past winter and spring, the Three Rivers multimedia tour and book launch hosted by Juri Peepre visited 12 Canadian cities and towns in Ontario and British Columbia. CPAWS-Yukon thanks the many local partners who made these events possible, including naturalist and canoe clubs. The Three Rivers: wild waters, sacred places art exhibition was also displayed to rave reviews in five public galleries.
Please stay tuned, there is plenty more to come with a 12-city cross-Canada Three Rivers tour shaping up for April-May 2007. Watch for the schedule on the CPAWS-Yukon and CPAWS National web sites as the tour visits the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies and an encore in British Columbia. Juri Peepre and guests will share the beauty and splendor of the Three Rivers with Canadians from Yellowknife to Halifax and all major urban centres in between. By sharing powerful experiences from the Three Rivers with Canadians from coast to coast, we hope to inspire many to take action on protecting this and other magnificent northern boreal watersheds.
Stay tuned via the CPAWS Yukon Events Calendar.
Learn more about CPAWS-Yukon’s bold conservation vision for the Peel watershed.
Read our previous conservation update (from November, 2006).
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