Member List

RCEN’s membership consists of organizations and individuals from across Canada whose common interest is to protect the natural environment and work towards a sustainable future.

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Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) Cape Breton

https://www.acapcb.ns.ca/
Sydney, Nova Scotia

  • ACAP Cape Breton is an environmental non-profit organization that offers the knowledge that Cape Bretoners need to make greener choices, and works directly on practical solutions that help protect and restore our natural environment.

    Since its beginning in 1992, ACAP Cape Breton has evolved into a dynamic group that integrates environmental, social and economic factors into projects focusing on action, education and ecosystem planning.

    Environmental action and education is our passion. ACAP offers a variety of services including hands on education, community education, stream and habitat restoration, community cleanups, and so much more!

Annapolis Waterkeepers

https://annapoliswaterkeepers.ca
Halifax, Nova Scotia

  • Over the last thirteen years, a construction debris dump found its way into the very top of our watershed. At first we didn't pay a lot of attention, wishing our neighbor well in his new enterprise and trusting the authorities to look after our best interests.

    In 2008 we were still napping when the dump, Arlington heights C&D, applied to become a disposal site for asbestos waste. Disposal of this toxic carcinogen is a big problem for developers, especially in an older city like Halifax. It says a lot that huge trucks make the 325 kilometer round trip to our insignificant community in order to get rid of their burden.

    Now Arlington Heights C&D is expanding again, and we are finally waking up. We are calling for a moratorium on the use of Arlington Heights C&D. Let's hit the pause button, examine the science, redo parts of the Environmental Assessment, hold the trucks in Halifax, and take stock of our own priorities.

Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA)

  • Alberta Wilderness Association is the oldest wilderness conservation group in Alberta, advocating for wildlands, wildwater, and wildlife since 1965. For more than 50 years, AWA has worked throughout Alberta to protect the wilderness and develop a network of protected areas that allow refuge and movement for wildlife, and secure our biodiversity, water, and clean air. AWA aims to be reflective of Alberta’s diversity in their composition, perspectives, thinking and values, how they reach out, and how they do things.

Be the Change Earth Alliance

https://www.bccic.ca/
Vancouver, BC

  • The British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) is a coalition of people working in solidarity with partners across the world working to improve their own conditions. Our diverse and capable membership is made up of international development organizations, civil society groups and individuals. We also works alongside different communities (geographical, social, interest-based, among other types of communities) through BCCIC programming, the youth-led Climate Change Branch and regional chapters.

  • Be the Change Earth Alliance (BTCEA) is a Vancouver-based, charitable, non-profit organization founded in 2005. BTCEA delivers eco-social education initiatives that engage youth and educators in meaningful learning and action on environmental, social and climate justice.

    We primarily work within the BC public education system, engaging youth and educators (Grades 5-12) in Metro Vancouver and across BC. We aim to create empowering education opportunities for all learners, including equity-deserving groups. In addition, we offer action-oriented education to interested BC communities.

British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC)

Canadian Wildlife Federation

www.cwf-fcf.org
Ottawa, ON

  • The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada’s wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all.

    The Canadian Wildlife Federation conducts its activities through a cooperative approach – working with people, corporations, non-government organizations, and governments to inspire collaboration in achieving wildlife conservation. We will use the best available science-based information to develop our policies, programs and communications. CWF prides itself in being accountable and transparent in fulfilling our mission.

Centre for International Sustainable Development Law

  • The Center for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) is an international legal research center with the mission to promote sustainable societies and the protection of ecosystems by advancing the understanding, development and implementation of international sustainable development law.

    The CISDL is governed by a distinguished Board of Governors and is guided a roster of honoured international advisors and expert collaborators. The CISDL is engaged in six primary areas of sustainable development law research, each of which is led by a CISDL Lead Counsel based at a developing or developed country law faculty or international organisation. These include: Trade, Investment & Competition Law Biodiversity & Biosafety Law Health & Hazards Law Climate Change Law Human Rights & Poverty Eradication Natural Resources Law Governance, Institutions & Accountability. The CISDL has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Grand Riverkeeper Labrador

https://www.grandriverkeeperlabrador.ca/
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL

  • Our goal is to preserve and protect the water quality and the ecological integrity of the Grand (Churchill) River and its estuaries for present and future users and for posterity through actions of public awareness, monitoring, research, networking, intervention and habitat restoration.

Heart Lake Run

www.heartlakerun.org
Brampton, ON

  • Heart Lake Run is a federal not-for-profit that champions Sustainable Development Goals #GlobalGoals

Inter-Church Uranium Committee Educational Co-operative

https://www.icucec.org/
Saskatoon, SK

  • ICUCEC is an inter-church coalition that works to educate people about the nuclear industry in Saskatchewan and halt all nuclear development in the province, including the mining of uranium.

East Coast Environmental Law (ECELAW)

  • East Coast Environmental Law envisions a future in which laws and legal systems protect ecological health and promote environmental and climate justice in Atlantic Canada.

    We take a dynamic approach to environmental advocacy in Atlantic Canada. By engaging with diverse individuals, groups, and communities in our region, we work to ensure that environmental laws and policies throughout Atlantic Canada are founded on responsible, transparent, proactive, and inclusive decision-making.

Global Foundation for Social Harmony & Sustainable Development

  • The Foundation’s goal is to pursue harmony, promote education, and advocate for environmental protection, social justice, and worker well-being at the local, national, or global level. Through ecological, agricultural and workplace actions, the Foundation promotes arts, culture, as well as cooperative communities, and corporate sustainable practices. An overriding concern is to promote activities that prevent or mitigate against climate change.

Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence

  • Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence is an organization dedicated to advancing access to justice, advocating for the protection of nature and honouring of Indigenous sovereignty in law and policy, and providing education about environmental laws and legal processes.

MiningWatch Canada

  • MiningWatch Canada works in solidarity with Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous communities who are dealing with potential or actual industrial mining operations that affect their lives and territories, or with the legacy of closed mines, as well as with mineworkers and former workers seeking safe working conditions and fair treatment.

    MiningWatch Canada explicitly values the experience and knowledge of Indigenous peoples, mining-affected communities, and workers, and bases its work on mutual learning and participatory, deliberative and transformative methodologies.

Northwest Institute of Bioregional Research

  • In 1996, a number of northwest First Nations and other environmental leaders came together with scientists to form the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research. The Institute undertakes research and the publication of educational information, promotes cooperation within and among communities, and initiates model projects in the fields of education and sustainability. Their ultimate goal is to promote environmental conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources.

Pacific Wild

  • Pacific Wild supports innovative research, public education, community outreach and raising conservation awareness to achieve the goal of lasting environmental protections for the lands and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest and throughout the wild Pacific Northwest.

Public Interest Law Centre

  • The Public Interest Law Centre represents groups and individuals on issues affecting the environment, human rights, Indigenous people, consumers and low-income persons. We are here to assist those who are far too often silenced in legal and public policy debates by providing high quality, evidence based advocacy.

Sustainability Network

  • Our mission is to strengthen environmental nonprofit leadership. The Sustainability Network works with environmental non-profits to make them more effective and efficient. By improving management and leadership skills and fostering organizational development, we help to strengthen the environmental community.

Watershed Sentinel Educational Society

  • The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental community groups and thinkers –the folks who are working on-the-ground on issues such as water, oil and gas projects, climate change, GMOs, fish farming, Indigenous rights, conservation efforts, etc. – want to have their story heard, they contact us.

    In a world where our access to news is increasingly corporate-and-algorithm-controlled, we aim to amplify the stories that don’t get heard elsewhere, and to provide a forum for intelligent discussion about environmental issues and their broader social implications.

Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

  • WCS Canada uses a unique blend of on-the-ground scientific research and policy action to help protect wildlife across Canada. Our scientists are leaders in developing solutions to address conservation challenges, from the impacts of climate change on wildlife and wild areas to the cumulative effects of resource development and other human impacts. We work in some of the wildest corners of Canada to build a scientific case for the conservation of globally important wild areas, like the Ontario Northern Boreal, the Northern Boreal Mountains of BC and Yukon, and the Arctic Ocean, where there is still a big opportunity to protect intact ecosystems.

    We combine insights gained from our “muddy boots” fieldwork with a big-picture conservation vision to speak up for species such as caribou, wolverine, bats, bison, freshwater fish and marine mammals. This unique approach has led to many conservation successes, including a seven-fold expansion of Nahanni National Park, protection of Yukon’s pristine Peel Watershed and the creation of the Castle Wildland Park in southern Alberta.

    WCS Canada's research and conservation efforts in Ontario, meanwhile, have inspired the provincial government to commit to large-scale protection in the northern boreal, revising endangered species legislation, as well as the federal government’s commitment to reform the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

Workshops for Biodiversity

  • Workshops for Biodiversity is a non-profit that organizes workshops to raise awareness of the value and challenges related to biodiversity and to help organizations better integrate biodiversity into their decisions.

RCEN also supports and collaborates with affiliate provincial environmental networks