CPAWS has helped protect over 40 million hectares of Canada's most treasured wild places while working closely with First Nations, government, industry and non-governmental organizations.
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Conservation in the Mackenzie Basin and MountainsOpportunities for large-scale conservation of intact land still exist in the Mackenzie Basin and Mountains area of the NWT. This area is massive, draining 18% of Canada’s landmass. NWT communities lead the processes for protecting natural and cultural values; CPAWS-NWT is playing a pivotal role in ensuring that protected areas will conserve the land, water and wildlife for current and future generations. We work both within and outside of the NWT Protected Areas Strategy, and always collaboratively with communities, all levels of government, and other environmental organizations.
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CaribouBy protecting the threatened woodland caribou’s remaining Boreal forest habitat across Canada, we will also help protect one of the world's largest remaining carbon reserves, and slow the effects of climate change. The NWT species at risk legislation (NWT Species at Risk Act or NWT SARA) came into force February 10, 2010. Boreal Woodland caribou area being assessed under the Act; their status will be determined by October 2012.
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Conservation scienceAs a science-based conservation organization, the promotion and use of conservation science is an important aspect of our work. CPAWS-NWT has partnered with accomplished researchers on several exciting conservation science research projects.
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Thaidene NeneThaidene Nene (the Land of the Ancestors) is a proposed protected area of approximately 33,500 km2 around and beyond the East Arm of Great Slave Lake. This area has been the homeland and sacred place of the Lutsel K’e Denesoline for thousands of years, and it is an ecologically-significant cultural landscape with rich wildlife populations and unique geography.
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Pehdzeh Ki NdehPehdzeh Ki Ndeh (ped-zay-keen-day) is an important spiritual and cultural area for the Pehdzeh Ki First Nation (community of Wrigley) in the Dehcho region. It is located on the east side of the Mackenzie River, is approximately 16,400 km², and is made up of three river watersheds and two additional lake areas. The community of Wrigley is seeking protection of the area through the NWT Protected Areas Strategy.
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Nááts´ihch´ohNááts´ihch´oh (Nah-tseen-cho) is a proposed National Park Reserve that will protect the Nahanni Headwaters contained within the Sahtu Settlement Area. In their shared interest to protect the entire Greater Nahanni Ecosystem, Parks Canada and the Sahtu Dene and Métis of Tulita and Norman Wells are working together to define boundaries, assess and document values, and come to agreement on the details of protecting this important mountain area. Nááts´ihch´oh will be contiguous with the newly-expanded Nahanni National Park Reserve in the neighbouring Dehcho region; the two connected national park reserves will work together to protect the globally renowned Boreal wilderness of the Greater Nahanni Ecosystem.
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