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 Stories About: Canada AND rainforests
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The Neverending Tory
Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund |
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23 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| The Neverending Tory Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund When Canada's Conservative Party took power a year ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper put a variety of environmental programs on hold -- only to find out that, oops, his constituents actually want a livable earth. Under pressure from citizens Canuck, Harper's cabinet is hyping green initiatives both new and recyc ... |
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| Topics: Canada, news, politics, rainforests, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Not Your Average Bear
In B.C., a landmark rainforest-protection agreement was just the beginning |
Gregory Dicum |
01 Nov 2006 |
Main Dish |
| It took 10 years of work to protect British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Photos: Gregory Dicum The Great Bear Rainforest, stretching from Vancouver Island to the Alaska Panhandle on the wild, rugged coast of British Columbia, is that rarest of things: an unvarnished environmental victory. But as the groundbreaking agreement signed to protect it comes into force, new ... |
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| Topics: Canada, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Singin' in the Rainforest
Deal will protect vast Great Bear Rainforest in Canada |
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07 Feb 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Singin' in the Rainforest Deal will protect vast Great Bear Rainforest in Canada We love the smell of vast tracts of protected rainforest in the morning. Smells like ... victory. Today in British Columbia, Canada, a coalition including the provincial government, Native groups, forest advocates, and timber companies is expected to announce an unprecedented agreement to protect the 15 million-acre Great Bear Rainforest -- fully a q ... |
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| Topics: Canada, news, rainforests (all these topics) |
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We've Got Spirit Bear, Yes We Do
Photos of B.C.'s renowned -- and threatened -- Great Bear Rainforest |
Ian McAllister |
29 Oct 2004 |
Main Dish |
| The Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia -- home to the legendary white spirit bear, as well as huge grizzlies, rare wolves, countless salmon, and other wildlife galore -- is one of the only remaining pristine regions of temperate rainforest left on earth. Take a virtual tour through this biological hotspot with the Raincoast Conservation Society, which is figh ... |
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| Topics: British Columbia, Canada, rainforests (all these topics) |
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