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Also thanks to Greenpeace who have alreadysunk nine whalinf ships and
are heading into the South Antartic Seas to save the whale killings in
Australian Waters by Japanese Whalers

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Keith



Help Great Bear Campaign Achieve Victory!



The campaign to save the Great Bear Rainforest, the world's largest
temperate rainforest located on the Central and North coasts of British
Columbia, Canada, is very close to a huge victory -- so close that a
historic agreement could be finalized within days -- but the provincial
government of British Columbia needs to feel pressure from people all
over the world right now to ensure that it takes one final step. PLEASE
WRITE A LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT through the website:

www.savethegreatbear.org
If implemented, the Great Bear Rainforest agreement would be
unprecented in Canadian history. It would protect 33% of the Central
and North Coast regions (an area twice the size of Switzerland) from
logging, where all previous land use plans in BC have only protected
between 7% (Okanagan) to 14% (Lower Mainland) of their regions.
Please read the following statements from Greenpeace and from Guujaw
and Art Steritt of the coastal First Nations, and take action!

The Great Bear Rainforest - a decisive moment in history

Decisions are being made right now that will determine the future of
the Great Bear Rainforest and one party -- the Government of British
Columbia -- represents the final hold out. The logging industry,
unions, local communities, mining, recreational users, tourism
industry, Greenpeace and other environmental groups have put a
consensus recommendation forward. First Nations have melded these
recommendations with their own land use visions and are also ready for
change in the Great Bear Rainforest.

At this moment in time, this is the agreement that will be moved
forward or rejected. Please act now by sending a fax to the Premier of
British Columbia

We're talking about a massive paradigm shift

The scale of agreements in the Great Bear Rainforest go beyond
protecting one single valley or establishing of one sustainable
business venture. The campaign goals we all embarked on were grand and
visionary covering 21 million acres, the traditional territory of 17
First Nations, and a region of economic importance to many, including 5
major multinational logging companies. To be successful and sustainable
in this complicated political, economic and environmental landscape,
conservation in the Great Bear Rainforest must not only protect the
ecosystem, but also leverage change in multinational economic forces,
respect indigenous cultures, and strengthen local stewardship efforts
and economies.

The Government of British Columbia is currently confronted with a
choice to support agreements that include:

Protect of an area 5 times the size of Prince Edward Island.

A commitment to take a first step and see implementation of new logging
practices by 2009.

$120 million for First Nations to manage their parks, restore damaged
watersheds, and build their tourism and alternative energy businesses.
Up to an additional $80 million in socially responsible investments
will be available for both native and non-native communities with ties
to the current economy of the Great Bear Rainforest. Together these
funds will enable locals to direct a new economy, rather than rely on
multinational corporations that chose to enter the region (such as
salmon farming and logging companies).

The protected areas network alone is not the only part of this package
that addresses the future of the ecology of the Great Bear Rainforest.
While it is the largest coastal rainforest protection package in
Canadian history, what is on the table for consideration by the
Government of British Columbia is about much more.

Government is letting this opportunity slide away and all that remains
certain in the Great Bear Rainforest is 7% in existing protection,
continued clearcut logging and communities with up to 80% unemployment
and few options.

Help Greenpeace wake them up and turn the vision for the Great Bear
Rainforest into reality

Amanda Carr
Greenpeace Forests Campaigner

To help save the Great Bear Rainforest, please send a fax to the BC
government through the website www.savethegreatbear.org

***********
Best Chance for Coastal Rainforest

by Art Sterritt and Guujaaw
Some continue to claim the proposed land use agreements to protect
B.C.'s Central and North Coast -- also known as the Great Bear
Rainforest -- and the islands of Haida Gwaii don't go far enough.
Others
think it goes too far.

As 12 first nations who live in these regions, our traditional
territory, and who have 8,000 years of on-the-ground management
experience, we believe those who make those claim fail to consider one
critical question.
How do we integrate the needs of natural systems with the needs of the
people who depend upon them for their livelihoods and way of life?

We live and work on this coast, where the forest and waters are a vital

natural, cultural and economic resource for first nations, coastal
communities and B.C. as a whole.
To be successful, land use agreements must not only preserve the land
and protect its ecological integrity -- they must also respect
indigenous cultures and strengthen local economies.

To be successful, conservation must be sustainable, both ecologically
and economically.

The coastal land use agreements, currently awaiting cabinet approval,
do
both.

In these agreements, the total size of protected areas would be
quadrupled to secure many of its most sensitive and intact valleys and
islands.

This will be more than seven million acres of area protected from
logging on the Central and North Coast and Haida Gwaii.
When approved, it will be the largest temperate rainforest protection
package in Canadian history. The agreements also represent the first
effort to apply ecosystem-based management on all areas outside the
protected areas.
This amounts to re-engineering an entire regional economy, tuning it to

measurable indicators of ecological health and human well-being.

Through a declaration signed in June 2000, Coastal First Nations
committed to making decisions that ensure the well-being of our lands
and waters, and to preserve and renew their territories and cultures
through tradition, knowledge, and authority.

Since then, this position has not changed, only strengthened, as we
seek
to find more opportunities for conservation approaches based on
independent science and local and traditional knowledge.

As well, we are looking for approaches for our coastal communities
where
unemployment and poverty rates are well above national averages.

The intricate process that has led to this stage represents a
commitment
to a new relationship between the provincial government and first
nations.

Beyond mere consultation, this government-to-government relationship
will allow for a more just approach to land use decisions today and in
the future.

We believe the application of these land use agreements present the
world with its best chance yet to integrate conservation, community
development and first nations self-determination. We are supported by
Greenpeace, ForestEthics, the Sierra Club of Canada B.C. Chapter, the
Rainforest Action Network, the Nature Conservancy and others.
We are proud to support these agreements and are working with the
British Columbia government to develop legal and legislative tools to
make them a reality.

Art Sterritt is executive director of the Coastal First Nations of the
Turning Point Initiative Society.

Guujaaw is the president of the Council of Haida Nation.

*** Send a message to the BC government to protect the Great Bear
Rainforest at: http://www.savethegreatbear.org

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Theodore "Teddy" Roosvelt just didn't have the heart to shoot that
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By the way,,, S...w! greenpeace.
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"http://www.lookaboutusa.com/" wrote in message
oups.com...
Also thanks to Greenpeace who have alreadysunk nine whalinf ships and
are heading into the South Antartic Seas to save the whale killings in
Australian Waters by Japanese Whalers

DEATH TO GREENPEACE TERRORISTS!

http://www.lookaboutusa.com/ wrote:
Also thanks to Greenpeace who have alreadysunk nine whalinf ships

Goddamned ****ing terrorists.

--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.

DEATH TO JAPANESE WHALING TERRORISTS!

Bruce Jensen

They have to kill them Whales for those Whaleburgers they sell in those
fast food eat joints on the North Island of Hokkaido,Japan.They have a
special way they fry that Whale blubber so it doesn't taste so awfull
gunky and greasy. www.devilfinder.com Whaleburgers Hokkaido
Japan
cuhulin

clifto wrote:

http://www.lookaboutusa.com/ wrote:
Also thanks to Greenpeace who have alreadysunk nine whalinf ships

Goddamned ****ing terrorists.

--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.

If terrorism is required to make sure that another species doesn't get
delegated to the heap on non-existence then so be it!

JB

"John Barnard" wrote in message
...


clifto wrote:

http://www.lookaboutusa.com/ wrote:
Also thanks to Greenpeace who have alreadysunk nine whalinf
ships

Goddamned ****ing terrorists.

--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential
nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang
Zemin.

If terrorism is required to make sure that another species doesn't
get
delegated to the heap on non-existence then so be it!

Does Greenpeace attack Inuits who go whale hunting?
Just curious.

--Mike L.

Does Greenpeace attack Inuits who go whale hunting?
Just curious.

--Mike L

Greenpeace, AFAIK, harasses the big factory whaling operations that
massacre hundreds at a time. While I am certain that many of them
sympathize directly with the whales (I know I do), their fundamental
goal is species and oceanic preservation. The same is essentially true
of Sea Shepherd, although I think their people may even more strongly
identify with the plight of the whale being hunted.

I don't think they bother the Inuits or others who hunt on a
subsistence basis, although if the target species is truly endangered
they work to find other options.

Bruce Jensen