Experience

Wildlands League

• Canada
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conservation Director

  • 2001 - Present

  Anna Baggio is senior staff member and Conservation Director for Wildlands League. She has been with Wildlands for 20 years working with Indigenous leaders, governments, citizens, industry and communities to protect wilderness and come up with solutions for nature and communities. Anna is a graduate of York University’s Master in Environmental Studies Program and she also holds a Hon. B.Sc. in Biology from McMaster University. Her passion for conservation was sparked at a national park in Georgian Bay where she studied spotted turtles and reptiles. For her Master’s research, she worked with communities outside two small protected areas in Southern Costa Rica, examining land use and ecologically sustainable practices in agriculture. Anna played a lead role in helping the community of Kitchenumaykoosib Inninuwug in northern Ontario (from 2005-2011) fight unwanted mineral exploration on their lands. This ultimately led to the safeguarding of over 2.6 million ha of globally significant boreal forests and wetlands from mining in 2012. Anna played a lead role in delivering a 3 million ha action plan in the Abitibi River Forest in NE Ontario that protects caribou habitat and provides for local jobs. She has been instrumental in shaping new laws such as the Far North Act 2010, Mining Act 2009, and An Act to amend the Rouge National Urban Park Act, the Parks Canada Agency Act and the Canada National Parks Act, 2016. She helped create the new Rouge National Urban Park (final parcel added in 2019). Anna is currently working on endangered species, Indigenous Protected Areas, caribou, mining, helping Canada meet its international commitments to protect 25% of its lands, inland waters and ocean by 2025 and 30% by 2030 and supporting an Indigenous-led National Marine Conservation Area in western James Bay & Hudson Bay with Mushkegowuk Council. You can follow Anna on twitter: @annabwild. Show less