The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is Canada's grassroots voice for wilderness. Founded in 1963, CPAWS has helped protect over 400,000 square kilometres of threatened areas. The British Columbia Chapter was founded in 1979, and is one of 13 CPAWS Chapters.
CPAWS is a non-profit membership-based conservation organization, and we remain the only national non-profit organization devoted exclusively to protecting Canada's wilderness heritage.
EWS UPDATE: August 23, 2010 – B.C.’s Auditor General says B.C. lacks the plans necessary to protect nature in B.C.’s parks and protected areas. In the report, the Auditor General finds that despite a sound vision of parks protection, the government falls short in actual plans for protecting parks.
system, on the eve of B.C. Parks 100th anniversary. It’s not a priority to nurture protected areas. It’s a necessity. Keeping wild places intact is the simple solution to our current and future environmental problems in British Columbia. 
We’re celebrating Canada’s national parks! There are 42 of them. Pick one. Create a two-minute video about why that park is so amazing. And you could be eligible to win a guided river excursion through the breathtaking Nahanni wilderness in the Northwest Territories, plus airfare from a major Canadian city.
National marine conservation area now established 
Television segment explores one of Canada's most endangered ecosystems and the long wait to give it permanent protection.
Prehistoric reefs considered a submerged “Jurassic Park”
Groups sign world’s largest conservation agreement 

