Canada’s nature strategy needs science and transparency, not spending cuts

Protecting biodiversity requires more than targets on paper. It depends on sustained investment in three pillars of scientific capacity: long-term monitoring, scientific expertise and recovery infrastructure. All three are now at risk.

The Liberals' Nature Strategy aspires to 'build a stronger, more independent, and more sustainable country.' But a strategy developed alongside the erosion of scientific capacity cannot deliver on that promise, write six scientists.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY JAYME LEWTHWAITE, MARY ANN PERRON, MATHILDE TISSIER

May 28, 2026

The recent launch of a federal nature strategy signals an ambitious commitment to protecting bio...

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