In an important win for species at risk protection in Canada, the Federal Court has ruled that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change acted unreasonably when redefining critical habitat for the endangered Piping Plover (melodus subspecies).  

The Earth’s biodiversity - the variety of life on Earth - is diminishing at an alarming and unprecedented rate. The science on biodiversity trends is bleak: the 2019 IPBES’ Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity estimates that around 1 million of an estimated 8 million plant and animal species on Earth are threatened with extinction unless action is taken to lessen the threats.