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Environmental groups Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society, Protected Areas Association of Newfoundland & Labrador and Nature Newfoundland & Labrador are concerned about a proposal to open Terra Nova National Park to snowmobiling, which the National Parks Act does not allow. We are calling on all levels of government to support the existing ban on motorized [Continue...] 
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter (CPAWS-NL), will develop a MapGuide of the province’s eastern region with an investment of $102,388 from the Provincial Government. The project, in partnership with National Geographic’s Center for Sustainable Tourism, will create a geotourism website and companion hardcopy booklet. [Continue...] Conservationists are lauding the province for withdrawing the central Newfoundland forest management plan from the environmental assessment process. “We see it as a good news story, or a lukewarm one anyway,” said Ian Goudie of Canada Parks and Wilderness Society-Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter (CPAWS). The withdrawal of the five-year operating plan for forest management districts [Continue...] The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s Newfoundland and Labrador Chatper, urges snowmobilers throughout the province to respect our parks and protected areas and the laws that are put in place to protect these special places. We are concerned with recent reports of trail cutting and proposals to snowmobile in Terra Nova National Park. Terra Nova [Continue...] |
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