Do More

Nature and biodiversity

Wildlife trafficking is the illegal trade, smuggling, poaching, capture, or collection of endangered species, protected wildlife (including animals and plants), and their derivatives. This includes cross-border movement, but also domestic illegal trade.

Air Canada asserts and maintains a zero-tolerance approach to Illegal Wildlife Trade (including hunting trophies and shark fins associated with illegal wildlife activities).

Watch: Air Canada: Helping to Preserve Wildlife with Dr. Jane Goodall

Some of our most notable efforts include:

• Signing the Buckingham Palace Declaration
• Becoming the first North American airline to hold the IATA Illegal Wildlife Trade certification for its cargo operations
• Joining the United for Wildlife North American Regional Chapter
• Participating in the funding and selection of community-focused environmental projects for youth, under the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada’s Roots & Shoots program
• Transporting confiscated and at-risk wildlife to accredited facilities to ensure species survival
• Raising IWT awareness with travellers by developing a digital awareness campaign with Edmonton Airport Authority, Vancouver Airport Authority and Aéroport de Montréal.

Beehive Program: supporting ecosystem resilience

At Air Canada, we want to help contribute to the preservation of the ecosystems in the communities that we operate. That’s why we have installed beehives at five of our locations: Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal and Halifax.

These hives are home to tens of thousands of honeybees that help pollinate the surrounding flora and produce delicious honey. Each hive can host up to 100,000 bees at its peak, making them buzzing communities of nature’s workers.

We also offer our employees the opportunity to learn more about these amazing insects through workshops at each location. Our beehive program is part of our commitment to biodiversity and employee engagement.

Shoreline cleanups

Annually, Air Canada cleans up shorelines in Canada and around the world. Air Canada employees are invited to join with friends and family to help engage in the communities where we fly.

Sustainability scholarship

The Sustainability Scholarship Program encourages the children of full-time and part-time active Air Canada employees, registered in a Canadian post-secondary institution and who are 30 years of age or younger, to tell us how they are helping build a sustainable future through their studies.

The Scholarship is awarded to 10 recipients each year to support their post-secondary studies.

The funds for this scholarship are raised through metal recycling activities carried out by our Air Canada Maintenance branch.

Industry collaboration

As an international airline, we’re global in our way of thinking, not just our reach. We believe in collaboration among industry stakeholders and are actively involved in initiatives to better understand, strategize and effect environmental protection locally and globally.