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Site News:
- NEW: World Heritage Site Updated List: The Honorable David Anderson, Minister for the
Environment has unveiled the updated the Canadian proposed
Heritage Sites. The Atikaki/Woodland Caribou/Accord First
Nations straddling Manitoba and Ontario is on the Canada's
Tentative List . To be considered for inclusion on Canada's
Tentative List, sites had to have high potential to meet specific
criteria to determine the outstanding universal value, as defined
by the World Heritage Committee, and meet qualifying conditions of
authenticity, integrity and protection. Go to http://www.parkscanada.ca/
and click on to the What's New link. Look for more
information about this proposed World Heritage Site next week on
this web site.
- View
The Boreal Forest On The Northern Edge Power Point Presentation
- To view the 2004 Goldman Awards Winners go to: Goldman
Prize: Recipients by Year
- Download
The 7th Generation Earth Day Walk Poster
- WildEarth Ontario Gathering Information is available
at Wildearth
and to register for the gathering contact
wildearthontario@hotmail.com
- Urgent
Appeal for Grassy Narrows First Nation - The Boreal
Forest Network and Friends of Grassy Narrows call for
international support
- Wild horses provide eco-tourism
for Xeni Gwet'in First Nation
- View
the Boreal Forest Network Summary
Report for Programs and Activities.
- Boreal Forest
Network has an on line free membership
TRN
Bulletin:
The
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN) was founded in 1992 at an
international conference of scientists, academics and environmental
organizations in Sweden. The reason for this international gathering
was to create a coordinated response to the growing concerns with
the social, economic and environmental degradation that is occurring
in the boreal (taiga) forest. A platform outlining the goals and
mandate of the TRN was adopted by 110 organizations from 20
countries.
At the
second TRN international conference held in Alberta, Canada in 1994,
TRN recognized the pressing need to set up and maintain a fully
operational North American Coordination Centre in Canada. The North
American organizations belonging to TRN created the Boreal Forest
Network (BFN) the North American affiliate of the TRN in
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Since
the founding conference, over 200 organizations and thousands of
individuals have signed onto the TRN's mission statement of ensuring
"the protection, restoration and the sustainable use of the boreal
forest throughout the globe." |
