Salmon alliance shares salmon crisis plans at Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association annual meeting – Yukon News Plans shared on tackling population crisis
Treaty 9 First Nations taking Ontario, Ottawa to court to get equal say in land decisions | CBC News Several First Nations announce they’re taking the Ontario and Canadian governments to court, in a lawsuit their lead lawyer says could fundamentally change the way resource and land management decisions are made in Treaty 9 territory.
World’s biggest cumulative logjam mapped in the N.W.T. — and it stores tons of carbon | CBC News If added altogether, deposits of wood across the Mackenzie River Delta would cover a third of Yellowknife. Researchers calculated how much carbon it stores — which is at risk of entering the atmosphere more quickly as the…
Serious concerns about Yukon mining project – APTN News A judicial review on a mining project opposed by First Nations in the Yukon wrapped…
Research team documenting climate change impacts in Old Crow, Yukon NOTE: Brock University announced the creation of its Indigenous Research Grant in 2021. This is one in a series of articles profiling recipients’ research under this yearly internal award. Read more on the series on The Brock News. Caleb Charlie remembers…
Spring melt threatens to overwhelm tailings storage pits at Minto Mine, Yukon gov’t says | CBC News The Yukon government is directing the owners of the Minto Mine to brace for a heavy spring melt, and to take some needed measures now to prevent toxic water from tailings ponds from spilling into the environment.
Yukon River chinook, chum salmon runs expected to be small again this year | CBC News This year’s Yukon River chinook and fall chum salmon runs are expected to be slightly better than last year’s, but are once again unlikely to meet even the lower end of Canadian conservation targets.
MPs want U.S. co-operation on a cross-border plan to protect endangered Yukon salmon Federal politicians are voicing concerns over the collapse of Yukon River salmon stocks and the urgent need to establish a game plan with American authorities just as a critical bilateral meeting gets underway this week.