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🌲 Est. 1980 🐟 Protect nature + defend wildlife + fight climate change 📍 Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario 🔗 wildernesscommittee.org

"Myth-managing Forests and fire: Have you heard these Manitoba forest management myths? from Growing Nopiming Park after the fire" Background image shows a drone photo from Nopiming Park, now a sea of charcoal-black trunks.
"NEW REPORT, Old-growth forests need protection now" In the background is a huge, knobby tree-trunk covered in different shaggy lichens and plate-like mushrooms. It is surrounded by a lush green forest.
A killer whale breaching. Text on the image says "BC is home to the most biodiversity in Canada, but also the highest number of species at risk. 1900 species at risk." End of image description.
A video of Katie explaining the latest updates on protecting Wasaga Beach's piping plovers. Katie is a white woman in her 40s with long, curly, light brown hair. Behind her are images of plovers, of Wasaga Beach, and of the grass and sand dunes she mentioned are critical habitat.
"The best April fools joke is the ones birders played on ourselves" "Red-headed woodpeckers:" Next to a small bird with a long, sharp beak, a black-and-white body and a red head. "Every other woodpecker" Shows pictures of Pileated, Downy, Hairy Acorn and Red-bellied woodpeckers, all of which are some variation on a bird with a black-and-white body and a bright red head."
A mock pokemon trading card for the Plover Chick. It shows a baby piping plover who is as soft and white as a cotton ball, standing on a seaweed-strewn beach. "BASIC Plover Chick HP 10 Shoreline Feeding Piping plover chicks need to feed near the shoreline to grow big and strong for migration. This move doesn't work if the plovers' habitat is destroyed. Take Action! 100 Ask Minister of the Environment Honourable Julie Dabrusin for an emergency order to protect piping plover habitat at Wasaga Beach! weakness Habitat Desruction retreat Nowhere To Go Piping plover chicks are raised in sand dunes near shorelines, a habitat that is increasingly rare."
Derek Neepinak, a middle-aged Indigenous man wearing a blue suit, addresses gathered protestors from a podium. Behind him, community members hold colorful signs reading "No Victory Nickel Deals, Consultation requires consent," photo from 2013