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First Nations and environmental groups launch legal action to protect Yukon’s Peel River Watershed
the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Yukon Chapter (CPAWS Yukon) and the Yukon Conservation Society are launching a legal action to force the Yukon Government to implement a Land Use Plan that would protect 54,000 square kilometres of wilderness in northern Yukon’s Peel River Watershed, against mining and other industrial development.
National Geographic: Yukon Government Opens Vast Wilderness to Mining
Jan 25, 2014 - The National Geographic featured the Peel Watershed and the Yukon Government's plans to open it up to mining.
NGO community condemns Yukon Government Peel announcement Oct 2012
The Yukon Conservation Society (YCS) and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Yukon are condemning Yukon Government’s announcement today that they are throwing out the Peel Watershed Planning Commission’s Final Recommended Plan and instead implementing government’s own unilateral plan for the region.
