Victory for the Spirit Bear!

Dear NRDC BioGems Defender, I am writing to share wonderful news of a spectacular victory for the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia -- one of NRDC's very first BioGems! For nearly a decade, we've waged an all-out campaign to win government protection of this vast coastal temperate rainforest that is home to the Spirit Bear, a rare white-colored black bear, and other populations of endangered wildlife. Yesterday, the government of British Columbia officially announced that it will grant formal protection to more than five million acres of this irreplaceable natural treasure. Five years ago, under pressure from hundreds of thousands of BioGems Defenders and other activists, British Columbia officials and logging companies signed a groundbreaking accord with Canadian First Nations and environmental groups in which they committed to negotiating formal protections for the rainforest. When British Columbia's premier did not immediately ratify the conservation agreement at the ...

22:53:29 February 8, 2006, Wednesday (PST) Source: The Mediaburn Radio Weblog

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