Exploring Lancaster Sound, a remote and biodiverse region in Canada’s high Arctic, is easier than ever thanks to a new interactive map. Watch exclusive footage, read the story behind the region and dive deeper with rich mapping features.
Lancaster Sound is gaining recognition for both its candidacy for protection as a National Marine Conservation Area, and also for the disputed oil exploration leases with the proposed boundary.
Currently unprotected, the region is home to people, polar bears, narwhals and belugas, and faces threats from oil and gas development.
For more than 30 years, communities have been working to protect the region from industrial development, and WWF is asking the Canadian government to formally announce protection for the area, and to update its records to reflect the expiry of oil exploration leases in the region that should have expired in 1979.