Adaptation Community, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Low Carbon Resilience (LCR), Nature Based Solutions
BC earns “C” grade for conservation efforts, but leadership is still possible
June 24, 2021
Adaptation Community, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Low Carbon Resilience (LCR), Nature Based Solutions
June 24, 2021
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has released a report card for all Canadian provinces and their progress on conservation goals in the last 10 years. British Columbia’s progress on conservation this past decade has earned the Province a poor C grade. Only 1 percent of British Columbia has been added to the protected area system in the last 10 years, in contrast to Quebec’s role-model A- grade, earned by using federal conservation funding and supporting Indigenous-led conservation initiatives to expand biodiversity protection across the Eastern province.
However, the CPAWS report outlines concrete steps that the Provincial government can take to improve its grade over the next 10 years and re-establish itself in the global conservation space: