Have you ever wondered what you could do with a $200 gift card from Mountain Equipment Co-op? If you’re anything like us, you might say: get outside, get active, start a new adventure – check, check, and check. Oh, and one more thing – help support the creation of 12 new marine protected areas by the end of 2012! This season, anyone signing on to CPAWS’ Dare to be Deep campaign, which aims to increase the number of marine protected areas in Canada, will be entered into the Dare to be Deep contest to win one of three $200 MEC gift certificates or our grand prize of a stand-up paddleboard.
CPAWS prides itself on being a solutions-focused organization. We don’t make the decision to join a protest lightly. The budget implementation bill rolls back the clock on environmental protection, rewrites habitat provisions in the Fisheries Act, replaces the entire Environmental Assessment Act with a much weaker version, excludes interested Canadians from public consultation processes and centralizes more decision-making at the Cabinet level.
For Earth Day, over 250,000 people – an unprecedented number --got together to demand better environmental protection in Quebec. Despite a late arrival on crowded buses through traffic and streets blocked by the arrival of other protesters, we managed to find and join a few CPAWS volunteers.
Once the Bou costume was donned, he certainly made people’s heads turn! Young and old jostled to get a photo taken with the caribou mascot and over 150 people signed our petition to protect this endangered species.
In the end, we had to ask Sébastien to take off the costume so that we get could away and return home. What a beautiful day with a festive atmosphere. I left full of energy! Thanks to our volunteers and to all who contributed to the protection of the woodland caribou!
Marie-Eve Allaire
Do recent decisions to allow new commercial tourism developments in our parks signal a new assault on their sanctity?
Update.
Recently Ontario announced it had reached an agreement with God’s Lake Resources. Hurray! They were finally dispatched with and now we and the community can now breathe a big sigh of relief. With this latest move, the province added to the land withdrawal it commenced in early March. The total land area that has been withdrawn from staking and mineral exploration covers over 2.355 million ha of native lands in the Boreal Forest. It is an awesome achievement for KI and for all of its supporters, people just like you.
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