Yukon Conservation Society

10/06/2026

📣 Join Cheryl McLean and YCS for a 3-hour workshop where you will be guided through the process of stitching and embellishing your own medicine bag made with naturally-dyed fish leather, beads, and more!

🌈 Cheryl will also share a little about the process of tanning and dyeing fish skin into leather - all colours of the rainbow.

🐟 Only 6 spots are available, and registration is open until October 15. Head to Eventbrite to learn more!

This workshop is part of YCS' Creative Conservation Workshops series with the generous support of Love2Thrift, Whitehorse Community Thrift Store 💚

Work with naturally dyed fish leather and beads to create a medicine bag with Cheryl and the Yukon Conservation Society!

10/05/2026

"Balcony" or Plugin solar is a way for everyone to generate their own electricity, outside of government microgen programs (which are 'paused' in Yukon these days).

Millions of folks around the world have taken matters into their own hands, and Yukoners can too.

Add your voice to this petition to encourage Yukon government to make it official!

An estimated 4 to 5 million European homes use a plug-in solar kit to cut their power bill. Help unlock certified kits across Canada, province by province and federally.

10/02/2026

📣 Join Cheryl McLean and YCS for a 3-hr workshop to learn the ancient art of skinning, scaling, scraping, tanning, dyeing and softening fish skin into leather.

🐟 Spaces are super limited and offered for a steal. Registration open until October 13. Head to Eventbrite to learn more!

This workshop is part of YCS' Creative Conservation Workshops series with the generous support of Love2Thrift, Whitehorse Community Thrift Store 💚

Prepare, tan, dye and soften fish skin into leather with Cheryl McLean and the Yukon Conservation Society!

08/25/2026

Come join us for our AGM tonight!

Join YCS members, staff and board at our AGM on Tuesday August 25, from 7 - 9 pm. We are looking forward to reconnecting with you! We will share news, activities and announcements, and elect new and returning YCS members to the Board of Directors. Anyone can join in for hybrid style, snack sharing AGM by registering on either…

👋 Eventbrite to attend in-person at 302 Hawkins Street: www.eventbrite.ca/e/yukon-conservation-societys-agm-tickets-1983817972960

👾 Zoom to attend virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qyu8gAIqS5uHuKpIKblD5A #/registration

🦌 If you want to further support our green work, and vote green community leaders to join the YCS Board of Directors at the AGM, consider becoming a YCS member. To learn more, please visit www.yukonconservation.ca/memberships !

Hope to see you there 🌱

08/19/2026

📢 YCS is searching for folks to join the Board to help advance conservation actions in the Yukon! If you or someone you know seem like a solid fit, we'd love to hear from you. Board member nominations will be accepted up until the AGM at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 25.

💫 YCS welcomes folks with diverse perspectives, skills and experience from anywhere in the Yukon! Learn more by visiting www.yukonconservation.ca/join-the-board or reach out directly to [email protected].

🦌 We look forward to working together for the sustainable health, connectivity, and protection of the lands, waters, wildlife and people in the Yukon.

08/19/2026

Join YCS members, staff and board at our AGM on Tuesday August 25, from 7 - 9 pm. We are looking forward to reconnecting with you! We will share news, activities and announcements, and elect new and returning YCS members to the Board of Directors. Anyone can join in for hybrid style, snack sharing AGM by registering on either…

👋 Eventbrite to attend in-person at 302 Hawkins Street: www.eventbrite.ca/e/yukon-conservation-societys-agm-tickets-1983817972960

👾 Zoom to attend virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qyu8gAIqS5uHuKpIKblD5A #/registration

🦌 If you want to further support our green work, and vote green community leaders to join the YCS Board of Directors at the AGM, consider becoming a YCS member. To learn more, please visit www.yukonconservation.ca/memberships !

Hope to see you there 🌱

08/19/2026

Some of us may be interested to learn that the YWB, in issuing a licence to a placer miner proposing to operate adjacent to the Dawson landfill, has imposed a security deposit of $47,000.
This is extraordinarily unusual. Although the legislation does allow for security, it is almost never imposed. To my knowledge this is only the second time in history.
YG EMR and YG ENV and TH all called for security, to the tune of just over $200,000.
TH also opposed issuing any water licence at all.
Security was needed because of the licensees long history of ignoring conditions of their licences, and disregarding orders given by inspectors.
Because the operation is immediately adjacent to the dump, there is a real risk of toxic leachate spreading underground in the Klondike valley.
Currently, the leachate is more or less contained by the impermeable nature of the underlying and surrounding permafrost.
The stripping involved in placer mining is likely to melt the permafrost.
Several conditions apply to the care of permafrost and the monitoring of groundwater movement.
The entire suite of 51 conditions and the reasoning the YWB used in reaching its conclusions can be found by searching Waterline https://apps.gov.yk.ca/waterline/ for PM18-055

Pursuant to s.23 of the Waters Act and s.13 of the Waters Act Regulation the Yukon Water Board is obliged to maintain a public register for each application received by the Board.

08/12/2026

The consensus is that Pika are the most charismatic small mammal in Yukon. They are also remarkably hard to find.
But if you do meet one, please tell the Pika Patrol!
(details in the poster)

08/06/2026

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are places identified as hosting rare and or imperilled species.
Some, but by all means not all KBAs have some form of protection.
This brand new interactive dashboard allows us to explore KBAs, and to learn which rare plants and animals depend upon them.

08/05/2026

Notoriously, Yukon has joined Alberta in forbidding anyone new from connecting solar arrays to the grid.
However, millions of people in Germany, and now in multiple U.S. States, are connecting a couple panels to their residences and plugging them directly into a household outlet, regardless of what the utility says.
So many people did this in Germany that they had to make it legal, and now Germans can buy balcony solar kits in Ikea for about 36 cents a watt.
Perhaps if enough people did it in Yukon, something similar would happen

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…