Task
- Option One: Create a simple infographic that highlights what you've learned so far in this story.
- Option Two: Sketch/map your answer to the question: does nature need half?
What do you think?
- Do you think environmental regulations and “red tape” are problematic for our economy?
- Do you think large protected areas are problematic for our economy?
- Who do you think is better represented in our electoral system: rural or urban voters?
- If we had to choose, what is the better option? More economic development and fewer parks and recreational opportunities? Or more protected areas and recreational opportunities, but less economic development? Why?
- How would you turn the kaleidoscope and find a better solution?
Terms & Concepts
- Old Growth Forests
- Primary Forests
- Clear Cut Logging
- Boreal Forest
- Environmental Regulation
- Regulatory Process
- First-Past-the-Post Electoral System
- Voting Blocs
This story in the media
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Bias: none
Source: The Guardian
File Type: Study/Article
Overview: Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Web...
Cities contain pockets of nature – our study shows which species are most tolerant of urbanization
Bias: Result bias
Source: The Conversation
File Type: Study/Essay
Overview: Cities contain pockets of nature – our study shows which species...
The tunnels, trails and bridges built especially for bears
Bias: none
Source: BBC
File Type: Article
Overview: The tunnels, trails and bridges built especially for bears
Web Link: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240521-these-wildlife-corridors-help-grizzly-bears
Referenced Resources
- War in Ukraine proof Canada must grow oil exports: industry
- To meet climate goals, rich countries like Canada must end oil and gas production by 2034: report
- Canada Needs More Pipelines and Transmission Lines. Here’s Why.
- The ‘Canada Needs More Pipelines’ Myth, Busted
- Canada needs a just transition from fossil fuels
- Ottawa’s “just transition” needs to be challenged for encouraging fantasy around oil and gas: Heather Exner-Pirot in the Calgary Herald
- Our biodiverse planet is threatened by unprecedented pressures from land use change, overexploitation, pollution, climate change, and invasive species – driven mostly by human activities.
- Biodiversity Report: United Nations
- Canada joins the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People
- Informing Canada’s commitment to biodiversity conservation: A science-based framework to help guide protected areas designation through Target 1 and beyond
- Wild Heritage
- Canada says its logging industry’s emissions are below zero. A new report says they’re actually on par with the oilsands
- UN forum on forest preservation ends in failure
- The State of Canada’s Forests Annual Report
- How does the forest sector contribute to Canada’s economy?
- Forests Ontario
- Deforestation in Canada: Key myths and facts
- Canada needs to close the “logging loophole” in its boreal forest
- Why you should save forests before planting trees
- There's potential in farm trees
- Using fast-growing plantations to promote forest ecosystem protection in Canada
- Forest management certification in Canada
- Greenwashed Timber: How Sustainable Forest Certification Has Failed
- Pros and cons of voluntary certification standards for conservation and livelihoods - new IUCN publication
- Canada’s forests remain under threat — and the clock is ticking for governments to step up
- Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being
- Old Growth Forests - BC
- British Columbia seeks to suspend one-third of old-growth logging
- B.C.’s new old growth deferrals get mixed response from environmental, forestry and First Nation groups
- Preserving old-growth forests could involve 'big, big money' in one analyst's estimate
- How much it could cost to halt old-growth logging
- Old growth deferrals will be ‘devastating’ to business
- Canada deserves proportional representation
- First-past-the-post deepens regional divides
- The Urban-Rural Divide in Canadian Federal Elections, 1896–2019
- 25 years since Elijah Harper said 'no' to the Meech Lake Accord
- Canada's large urban centres continue to grow and spread
- Urban population (% of total population)
- A city vote worth half a rural one as Province hobbles Toronto
- Why is a vote in rural B.C. worth more than a vote in Vancouver?
- The Electoral System of Canada
- How much is your vote really worth?
- Federal electoral districts ranked by population density
- Census of Environment: A roadmap to environmental and economic sustainability
- A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy
- Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales
- Tolerance for cougars diminished by high perception of risk
- Problem Perspectives and Grizzly Bears: A Case Study of Alberta’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Policy
- Gordon Stenhouse, Grizzly whisperer, on humans sharing the world with bears
- Effects of roads and motorized human access on grizzly bear populations in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
- Bears and roads don't mix, say U of A grizzly researchers
- Living peacefully with coyotes means respecting their boundaries
- The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
- Don’t hike so close to me: How the presence of humans can disturb wildlife up to half a mile away
- A lament for Bear 148
- Why we made a podcast about Bear 148
- Is conservation triage just smart decision making?
- Study: Wildlife are more sensitive to humans than we thought. How does that affect trails?
- “My Fear is Losing Everything”: The Climate Crisis and First Nations’ Right to Food in Canada
- What's killing rural Canada
- Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet
- Indigenous hunters are protecting animals, land and waterways
- Conservationists Should Support Trophy Hunting
- Should Hunting as a Cultural Heritage Be Protected?