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Canada sets aside huge tracts of land for protection

Posted at 4:53 PM on 26 Nov 2007

The Canadian government plans to set aside 25.5 million acres of northern boreal forest and tundra as protected land, off-limits from resource development. The total acreage (hectarage?) of the protected area is 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park -- or, in Canadian, about twice the size of Nova Scotia and more than five times the size of Prince Edward Island.

sources: Canadian Press, Associated Press, CanWest News Service, ScienceDaily

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Socialist canadian "cochons"!

They have to rub their "the greatest good for the greatest number of people" ideas in our faces all the time. Sure, I haven't had health insurance for almost three years now but that doesn't give the Canadians the right to have universal health care(I hope they have to wait in lines for days!). They're taking this government "of the people, for the people" a bit too far, if you ask me. Smells of communism. Makes me want to build a fallout shelter in my basement and pay high taxes so we can invade Iran. And conserving an area twice the size of "L'Acadie" is going a bit too far. I say we build a border fence and keep them and their dangerous ideas out of the U.S.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

by John former Marine at 8:29 AM on 27 Nov 2007

Well done Canada

This area is hugely important for the climate and for bird migration.

Now, if we can just get the Canadian government to end the commercial harp seal slaughter...

by amc89 at 9:59 AM on 27 Nov 2007

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