More than gold: Protecting the Dawson Region and preparing to protect its neighbor, the Northern Tutchone Region

CPAWS Yukon - Dawson Region
Photo: Malkolm Boothroyd - Judith van Gulick
GRANT NAME:
More than gold: Protecting the Dawson Region and preparing to protect its neighbor, the Northern Tutchone Region
GRANTEE:
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Yukon Chapter
LOCATION
Yukon Territory
AMOUNT
$20,000
Year
2023

Protect at least 34% (or 3,360,139 acres) of the Dawson Region. With the the existing protection in Tombstone Territorial Park, nearly 40% of the region will be off limits to development and preserved for future generations. This equates to about 4% of the Yukon.