This is from an email forwarded to me from a friend of an avid birdwatcher.
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From the Defenders of Wildlife:
Help Save Canada's Boreal Forest and the song birds that depend on it for survival! North America's Boreal Forest is one of the world's largest intact forests and makes up a quarter of the earth's remaining forests. At about 1.4 billion acres, the Boreal Forest is larger than the Brazilian Amazon. Please contact government officials in Canada and urge them to save what's left of the Boreal Forest.
Did you know that nearly half of all North American bird species call Canada's Boreal Forest home for some portion of their lives? As part of an international movement called the "Boreal Day of Action," Defenders of Wildlife needs your help to preserve this important place...
Boreal habitat is vital to the survival of many of the U.S. and Canada's species of waterfowl, shorebirds, waterbirds and landbirds. Sadly, the Canadian government isn't doing all it can to protect the Boreal Forest from mining and logging. If we want to protect bird life, we must protect the Boreal Forest. The billions of birds that fly to the Boreal Forest each spring to breed and to take care of their young need our help.
The Canadian government could accelerate protection of the Boreal Forest by adopting the "Boreal Forest Region Conservation Framework." This Framework would protect 50 percent of the region in a network of large protected areas, ensuring the survival of migratory birds and other wide-ranging species like the woodland caribou.
Urge the Canadian government to protect the Boreal Forest by adopting the "Boreal Region Conservation Framework". As American consumers, we have an obligation to protect this special place. The U.S. contributes to the destruction of the Boreal Forest through consumption of forest products and other natural resources exported to the U.S. These natural resources are used in the production of everyday paper products like catalogs and paper towels. That is why you should take action today.
As always, thanks for your continued support of wildlife and the habitat it depends on for survival.
Sincerely,
Claudia Tejada Riley
National Grassroots Associate
Defender of Wildlife
Copyright 2005 Defenders of Wildlife and Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Founded in 1947, Defenders of Wildlife is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with more than 480,000 members and supporters that works to protect endangered species and their habitat. Affiliated with Defenders of Wildlife, the Defenders Action Fund provides the wildlife conservation community with a voice in the legislative and political process. Defenders of Wildlife does not support the electoral activities of Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.
Both organizations can be contacted at: 1130 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 or go to:
http://www.defenders.org/
Canadian Boreal Initiative:
http://www.borealcanada.ca/framework_summary_e.cfm
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Updated: 1:05 PM GMT on November 10, 2005
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