Wade Luzny

As Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Wildlife Federation, Wade Luzny is honoured to lead a national team of staff and volunteers dedicated to ensuring an appreciation of our natural world. Wade has been working in the non-profit, government and financial sectors for more than 30 years. He won the Ernest Thomas Seton Award for the best conservation messaging medium for a film on wetland habitat while he was working for the Saskatchewan Department of Parks and Renewable Resources in the late ’80s. He and his wife Karen, an art teacher from Regina, enjoy educating youth on global issues by leading European tours every Easter. They also enjoy watching wildlife from their bed and breakfast in Fernie, British Columbia.

Wade has many passions: politics, art, film, culture, conservation, traveling, mentoring people and enjoying a view of the mountains. “I have traveled the world and I am always humbled by nature’s version of the Pyramids — the Rockies; The Rockies are our Pyramids, the Douglas-fir is our Eiffel Tower, the St Lawrence our autobahn. Our Canadian wilderness continually reminds us what is truly great about our nation and yet so fragile if left unattended,” he says.  

Wade is committed to new partnerships and educational approaches designed to ensure the advancement of the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s top conservation priorities: water quality, endangered species and climate change.