Annual Report 2020

WWF-CANADA: 2019-2020
MILESTONES AND HIGHLIGHTS
First steps taken towards establishing
a 93,087 km 2 marine protected area
(MPA) around Southampton Island in
Hudson Bay.
4,273 individuals
and 150 corporate
teams registered for
our annual CN Tower
Climb for Nature and
continued to support
us as we quickly
transitioned to a virtual
event due to COVID-19.
$588,807
in Canadian donations
sent to WWF-Australia in
response to one of the
worst wildlife disasters
in modern history.
We partnered with Katzie First
Nation to restore four salmon
spawning sites equal to 11,326m 2 .
We committed to support the Mushkegowuk
Council’s conservation efforts in the Hudson
and James Bay Lowlands (HJBL), home to the
largest contiguous wetlands in the world
and one of the world’s largest remaining tracts
of unmanaged boreal forest.
Canada surpassed its target of
10% marine protected areas, reaching
almost 14% (793,906 km 2 ). This win
for oceans comes after more than
20 years of work from WWF-Canada
and the interim designation of the
Tuvaijuittuq Marine Protected Area
(nearly 320,000 km 2 ).
We laid the foundation for
a series of Blue Montreal
revitalization projects
ranging from bringing
underground rivers back
above ground to building
new urban rivers to manage
climate-increased storm
water runoff.
39,348 hectares
of native plant habitat
restored in Ontario’s
Carolinian Zone through
our In the Zone program
in partnership with
Carolinian Canada.
12,068 students
enrolled in our Living
Planet @ Campus program
(surpassing our goal of
7,500) and representing
75 per cent of Canada’s
post-secondary institutions.
In partnership with OceanWise, our Great
Canadian Shoreline Cleanup program, had a
record-breaking year with 83,803 volunteers
preventing 163,501 kilograms of trash from
entering our rivers, lakes and oceans and
preventing harm to wildlife.
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