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Together we are standing up for the Yukon’s land 🌲 water💧 and wildlife 🦌 while supporting First Nations’ goals. Learn more about #conservation and take action at cpawsyukon.org.
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CPAWS Yukon @cpawsyukon.org · Jan 14
👋🏽 CPAWS Yukon aims to conserve ecologically and culturally important wild spaces in the #Yukon for all. We believe public awareness, engagement, grassroots community organizing, empowerment, and following a path towards #Reconciliation are key to achieving land, water, & wildlife #conservation.
CPAWS Yukon team and office dog on the stairs leading up to our office in Whitehorse in the summer. Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council traditional territory, photo by Adil Darvesh. Fortymile caribou bull walking on the green, sunny Klondike Plateau in the Dawson Region. Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in traditional territory, photo by Malkolm Boothroyd. Group gathered by a forest in Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek) at a Care for the Creek event led by Misha Donoho, who points to the features of a tree. Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council traditional territory, photo by Adil Darvesh. Aerial view of the braided Wind River surrounded by mountains, taken during a 16-day youth canoe trip in 2023. First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun and Tetlit Gwich’in traditional territory, photo by Bethany Paquette.
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Check out our intern Tali's summer project: An accessible guide on #YukonMining review. It dives into where to access information at all stages of a project’s lifetime, as well as how and when you can share your opinion about mining in the territory. ➡️ cpawsyukon.org/mining-process
"Working on this guide reaffirmed how important it is to have plain-language guidance in mining review. What good is public consultation at one point in time, if no one knows what the process looks like in full?" - Tali Pukier, 2025 Summer Intern. Small portrait of Tali and background of a mountain with mining roads winding around its base. Photo by Malkolm Boothroyd.
August 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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PSF’s Stewardship Community Bursary is now accepting applications! We offer $2,500 to post-secondary students in B.C. or the Yukon passionate about salmon. View the eligibility criteria and apply online today: psf.ca/work/communi...
August 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Trump’s push for Arctic drilling heralds the next chapter in a decades-long fight to protect caribou.

What does that look like in Old Crow, Yukon — a tiny fly-in community north of the Arctic Circle? Find out in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...
Old Crow renews fight to protect wildlife refuge | The Narwhal
Old Crow, Yukon, gears up for a renewed fight to protect Porcupine caribou as Trump pushes for drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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August 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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We're hiring! CPAWS Yukon is looking for an Operations Manager to join the team & support our work by managing all things budget, office, & fundraising. 🌲

✨$33.95-$36.72 per hour + benefits, vacation, RRSP match
✨Apply by 4pm on Monday Aug 4th
✨ More info at cpawsyukon.org/jobs
July 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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BREAKING: Chasàn Chùa is officially a territorial park! 🎉

This new designation protects 36 square kilometres of forest, wetlands, and waters in the Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek) area. We are SO happy. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped make this happen!
Chasàn Chùa Territorial Park, with letters filled in with photos from the area, including birds, rosehips and moss, moose cow and calf, and landscapes.
June 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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EVENT: Free guided bird walk at Chasàn Chùa/McIntyre Creek 🦅🦉

🗓️ Thurs May 29th, 6 PM
📍 Gazebo off Copper Haul Rd #Whitehorse

Join @cpawsyukon.org & @yukonbirdclub.bsky.social for a walk to spot birds & learn about protecting the creek. Everyone welcome. Details at marshforestflight.eventbrite.com
Wilson's warbler leaping off the top of a spruce tree with overlaid text: "Marsh Forest Flight: Free Guided Bird Walk. Thursday May 29th, 6-7:30pm Meet at the gazebo on Copper Haul Road, just off Fish Lake Rd. Everyone is welcome! Full details at marshforestflight.eventbrite.com. Life of the Boreal, A Walk and Talk Series in Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek)"
May 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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📚 BOOK TOUR! Join author Drew Ann Wake for a reading from #AgainsttheOdds, book signing, & stories on the Peel and Thomas Berger’s work for #Indigenous rights & #conservation.

📍 Whitehorse May 20, 5–7pm. Register at againsttheoddsbook.eventbrite.com
📍 Dawson May 21, 5:30–7:30pm, Dänojà Zho. Drop in
Event poster with photo of book cover and Drew Ann Wake smiling. Overlaid text: BOOK TOUR Whitehorse - Tues May 20th 5-7PM - CPAWS Yukon Office - Registration Required. Dawson City - Wed May 21st 5:30–7:30PM - Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre - Drop-in Event. Meet author Drew Ann Wake for a book signing and reading from Against the Odds The Indigenous Rights Cases of Thomas R. Berger. Full details at cpawsyukon.org/events
May 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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New blog!! 🦅 From Colombia to the Yukon, #birds carry stories of connection and survival. Paula (our comms coordinator) reflects on #migration, amazing bird adaptations & her grandma’s farm in Colombia for #WorldMigratoryBirdDay. 🌎
From Canada to Colombia: Birds, Belonging, and Big Flight Lessons - CPAWS Yukon
Almost 90% of Yukon birds are migratory, relying on healthy ecosystems across continents. These shared journeys are written into their DNA, reminding us of the importance of conservation and preservin...
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May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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yukonbirdclub.bsky.social Yukon Bird Club @yukonbirdclub.bsky.social · May 5
Spectacular show at the Faro Crane & Sheep Festival this past weekend! Yukon Bird Club folks counted 69,440 (let's just say 70,000!) Sandhill Cranes on Sunday alone. More passed through on Saturday, and "thousands ... continue streaming over" this morning as well. Photos by Cameron Eckert. #birds
birders look to the blue sky to count cranes in Faro Huge flock of Sandhill Cranes fly overhead against a blue sky closeup of the head of a flock of cranes flying overhead
May 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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With reports of bear activity territory-wide, Yukon conservation officers are reminding Yukoners to be bear aware.

Read more: yukon.ca/en/news/cons...
May 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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"We've lost that ability to #listen to what our land is telling us. She is screaming right now about how we need to #protect her." - Nika Silverfox-Young

A majority of member nations of the Council of Yukon First Nations voted in favour of looking into #LegalPersonhood for the #YukonRiver.
Should the Yukon River be considered a 'person' with rights? Some say yes | CBC News
It's an idea that already has the support of the Council of Yukon First Nations and Alaska Native people, whose cultures are also intertwined with the river.
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May 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Folks who are like, climate change, what climate change? Dawson City has been recording the Yukon River break-up since the Goldrush (so they could bet on it, of course). Earlier/faster now. I mean, I work with things recently melted out of ancient Yukon ice. An even longer record of same.
alaskawx.bsky.social Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · May 1
Ice broke on the Yukon River at Dawson, YT at 1056am MDT Wednesday. This is the tenth earliest break-up in 130 years of observations. Four of the ten earliest break-ups have occurred in the past decade. #ytwx #ClimateChange @radtek58.bsky.social @jkanadisk.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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🗳️ Election Day is Monday April 28th! #Voting is your chance to speak up for #conservation & shape the decisions that'll guide the next four years. We asked the #Yukon federal candidates 4 key questions on climate, mining, and land protection—read their answers ⬇️ cpawsyukon.org/2025federalelection/
Two people paddle a red canoe down a turquoise river framed by branches in the sun. Photo by Stephanie Woods. Bold text in the center reads, “VOTE FOR WILD SPACES.” Two people paddle a red canoe down a turquoise river framed by branches in the sun. Photo by Stephanie Woods. Bold text in the center reads, “VOTE FOR CLEAN WATER.” Two people paddle a red canoe down a turquoise river framed by branches in the sun. Photo by Stephanie Woods. Bold text in the center reads, “VOTE FOR THE CLIMATE.” Two people paddle a red canoe down a turquoise river framed by branches in the sun. Photo by Stephanie Woods. Bold text in the center reads, “VOTE ON MONDAY APR 28."
April 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Check out all these awesome #birding opportunities across the #Yukon! Lots of events in Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek) including a special collab with us on May 29th, details coming soon! 🦅🦅
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The 2025 field trip schedule for the Yukon Bird Club is now up on our website! 33 trips throughout the Yukon... first one this Friday evening! All the details at: yukonbirds.ca/field-trips/
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April 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The other week we hosted a sensory walk & art day with YukonU students at Chasàn Chùa/McIntyre Creek. We slowed down to take in the smells, sounds, & textures of spring, and loved how the sun played with branches through shadows that shifted on the water. Grateful for these spaces! #EarthDayEveryday
People sitting on snow at the edge of Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek) sketching on paper. Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council traditional territory. Photos by Anne Pinkerton. Group gathered and chatting, standing in a treed area of Chasàn Chùa (McIntyre Creek), with pinecone scales on the snow in the corner. Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council traditional territory. Photos by Anne Pinkerton.
April 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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For the last few mornings I've been woken by the honking of Trumpeter Swans flying over my house! Most of the ones that pass through Whitehorse, Yukon are heading west into the interior of Alaska... This pair was on the Yukon River at the mouth of McIntyre Creek. #birds
two swans flying low over the water, next to an ice shelf on the Yukon River
April 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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dougrutherford.bsky.social Doug Rutherford @dougrutherford.bsky.social · Apr 24
McIntyre Creek Canyon.
#Watercolour on paper, 8x10 inches. #Watercolor #YukonArt
Painting of the day 1880.
Painting of the wall of McIntyre Creek Canyon, Whitehorse, Yukon, at sunset.
April 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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#YukonMining panel TONIGHT! Join Chief Dawna Hope (First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun), former Chief Nicole Tom (Little Salmon Carmacks) & lawyer Nuri Frame on intersections of #salmon advocacy, #Indigenous governance, & extractive industries. 🌎

📆 April 24th, 6pm YT
📍On Zoom
🔗 tinyurl.com/1ALeAZZkJf
Event banner with salmon swimming underwater, CPAWS Yukon and To Swim and Speak With Salmon logos, and the text "Transformative Mining and Alternatives Panels: Indigenous Governance and Salmon. Thurs April 24th, 6-7:30pm"
April 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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“Each summer, in collaboration with the [Vuntut Gwitchin] First Nation, scientists visit the [Old Crow] basin in search of ancient fossils … The analysis confirmed that the tooth belonged to a woolly mammoth and dated it to about 220,000 years old.”

Open source paper:
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
April 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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A raven, ever the trickster, pulls at the tail feathers of a resting Trumpeter Swan to get a reaction out of the snoozer... s/he had to jump back quickly! #Whitehorse #Yukon #birds
A black raven about to tug on the tail of a resting Trumpeter Swan The swan swivels quickly and the raven jumps backwards The raven is airborne leaping backwards
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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As the #Yukon community grows here, we want to share our feeds! They're a nice way to stay connected & reach new people.

📿 Yukon or transboundary First Nations or the Inuvialuit posts:
bsky.app/profile/cpawsyukon.org/feed/indigenousyukon

🌄 #YukonWild: bsky.app/profile/cpawsyukon.org/feed/yukonwild
April 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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The Yukon Biodiversity Forum is back! Join Richard Gordon & Cameron Eckert Friday 7 pm at the Yukon Beringia Centre: "Qikiqtaruk-Herschel Island: Caring for Land and Culture in a Time of Rapid Change."

Then all day Saturday at the Mt. Mac Rec Ctr.

Register free!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/yukon-biod...
April 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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#EagleMineDisaster continues to impact Haggart Creek, communities, culture & connections downstream. As toxic solution spreads, #YukonSeed&Restoration hosted a webinar on risks + contamination updates. 🌎

Learn more + take action on our blog ⬇️ #Yukon
cpawsyukon.org/cyanide-in-the-environment-ysr
Underwater photo of grayling by Malkolm Boothroyd, overlaid with text "This is the most important grayling fishery in the Na-Cho Nyäk Dun traditional territory, right where the Haggart Creek comes into the South McQuesten River. The grayling congregate there in March/April, and people go there and fish through the ice. It is a big community event every year. - Mark O'Donoghue"
April 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Respect the Sheep and Goats 🏔️🐑 It’s #LambingSeason in the #Yukon. Vulnerable lambs and their mothers need quiet and safety. Remember to avoid Caribou Mountain, Nares Mountain, Needle Mountain, & White Mountain while voluntary closures are in place. 📷From Carcross Tagish Renewable Resources Council
April 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM