🇨🇦Canada

A nonprofit is building North America's first seaside sanctuary for retired captive whales in a netted bay in Nova Scotia, Canada.

A coalition formed in 1997 with one goal, ending coal power in Ontario, and by 2014 the province had become the first place in the world to do it for health reasons.

The company closest to mining the deep ocean is headquartered in Vancouver, and the watchdog documenting what its test runs actually did to the water is too.

Recovers marine plastic and ghost gear from Canada's coasts and recycles it into new material.

Volunteers at Period Purse packing parties stuff zip bags with pads, tampons and liners, and lit up 70 Canadian landmarks red for Menstrual Health Day.

Vacant, often contaminated lots in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside became paid urban farmland for people rebuilding their lives after addiction, homelessness or mental illness.

Eight Secwépemc communities formed their own restoration society to replant nearly 200,000 scorched hectares after British Columbia's Elephant Hill wildfire, blending Indigenous knowledge with forestry science.

The Omushkego Cree call the James Bay peatlands the Breathing Lands, and they are pushing to protect a carbon store that dwarfs most of the world's forests before mining reaches it.

Elders in Sanikiluaq wanted the sea ice they were watching change to be recorded in their own words, on their own terms — so they built the app themselves.

First Nations, Inuit and Metis Guardians are monitoring wildlife, guarding watersheds and reviving language through Canada's fast-growing Indigenous-led land stewardship movement.

Nunavut Tunngavik represents 30,000 Inuit as the legal steward of the largest Indigenous land claim settlement in Canadian history.

Gathering Voices Society partners with Yunesit'in and Xeni Gwet'in First Nations to bring seasonal cultural burning back to the Tsilhqot'in Chilcotin region of British Columbia, one of the fastest-warming, most fire-prone landscapes in Canada.