In the run-up to Canada Parks Day on the 3rd Saturday in July, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) released a sobering report about the growing threats our parks are facing. [Continue...]
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News from the Network: Ocean and Coasts
Ray Johnson of the citizens group Community Linkages and Fred Winsor of the grass roots organization Sierra Club of Canada, today called upon the United Nations General Assembly and the Food and Agriculture Organization to request that Canada adhere to the precautionary approach, the protection and rebuilding of ocean biodiversity, and sustainable fisheries [Continue...] 
With pending oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence generating much concern, representatives of over twenty environmental groups from all five Gulf provinces will gather on April 16th in Norris Point for a strategic meeting. [Continue...] 
On Sunday April 1, a public forum on “The Future We Want” will be held at The Lantern, 35 Barnes Rd., St. John’s. Author and journalist Gwynne Dyer will give the keynote address at 7:30pm [Continue...] 
A Coalition of fishermen, First Nations, environmentalists and coastal landowners are rallying against Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s recent ‘waffling’ on the need for a separate, independent safety regulator for NL’s offshore petroleum industry. [Continue...] 
The towns of Bauline, Flatrock and Pouch Cove are developing a coastal resource inventory which will produce a series of maps illustrating the distribution of natural resources off the coasts of these communities. [Continue...] |
    
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