The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), alongside Indigenous governments, Indigenous organizations and wildlife co-management partners, are urging harvesters to follow respectful harvesting practices as reports of illegal caribou wastage along the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road cont
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Yellowknife –
March 21, 2025
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March 20, 2025
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March 11, 2025
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March 4, 2025
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February 24, 2025
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Canada and Northwest Territories sign nature agreement
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February 14, 2025
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CAPTURE AND COLLARING OF LITTLE BUFFALO AND NYALRING BISON HERDS
Yellowknife –
February 12, 2025
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Mr. Speaker, I stand today to highlight one of the most significant achievements of 2024: the finalization of the Our Land for the Future Agreement, formerly called the NWT Project Finance for Permanence Agreement.
Yellowknife –
January 7, 2025
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The North continues to experience climate warming at a faster rate than the rest of Canada, adversely impacting our Northern ecosystems, infrastructure, and supply chains. At the same time, the Northwest Territories (NWT) is facing the combined effects of energy price volatility and a longstandi
Fort Smith –
November 28, 2024
Public Service Announcement
The department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) has confirmed one case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), otherwise known as bird flu, in a raven in the Northwest Territories (NWT), with one additional suspected case.
Yellowknife –
November 26, 2024
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The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has released the first NWT Climate Change Risks and Opportunities Assessment, called "Informing Our Resilience to a Changing Climate in