"Spirt Bear" Saved! Some Good Enviro/Animal Protection News for once.

[KoKo]

Dear NRDC Member,

I am writing to share wonderful news of a spectacular victory for the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia -- one of NRDC's very first BioGems!

For nearly a decade, we've waged an all-out campaign to win government
protection of this vast coastal temperate rainforest that is home to the Spirit Bear, a rare white-colored black bear, and other populations of endangered
wildlife.

Yesterday, the government of British Columbia officially announced that it will
grant formal protection to more than five million acres of this irreplaceable
natural treasure.

Five years ago, under pressure from hundreds of thousands of NRDC Members and
other activists, British Columbia officials and logging companies signed a
groundbreaking accord with Canadian First Nations and environmental groups in
which they committed to negotiating formal protections for the rainforest.

When British Columbia's premier did not immediately ratify the conservation
agreement at the close of negotiations in 2005, NRDC's online activists sent
more than 20,000 messages urging him to act.

NRDC Members like you have played a lead role in making sure that the world's
several hundred surviving Spirit Bears can thrive in their irreplaceable
rainforest habitat. Yesterday, all our hard work paid off in a victory for
nature that is well worth celebrating.

Thank you so much for your financial support and tireless activism on behalf of
the Great Bear Rainforest and all our other endangered wild places.

Sincerely,

Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council

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[xchrom]

1. woo -- hoo very cool!

i love those bears.

[sasha031]

2. wonderful, 1 battle down

:toast:

[Botany]

3. Bay Airs Rock!

http://www.bear.org/Grizzly/GB_Home.html

[Beaverhausen]

4. Yeah! Good news

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Ho Metaquiatsun

for all our relations, this is good news.

[IndyOp]

6. Let's hear it for the bears! Let's give the bears a hand!

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:




Let's hear it for the NRDC! I am still in awe of their/our ANWR victory last December. I had gone to a place of despair and they pulled it out of the fire:

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

NRDC Great Bear Rainforest Page

[leftchick]

7. Photo of Spirit Bear....

The SPIRIT BEAR, or Kermode Bear, is one of the most famous -- and unusual -- denizens of the Great Bear Rainforest. It is actually a member of the black bear family, but a recessive gene gives it its white color. (The Spirit Bear's parents and siblings are usually black; white bears occur in about 1 of every 10 births.) British Columbia's north coast is the only part of the world where these bears are found. The largest concentrations of Spirit Bears are on Princess Royal Island and adjacent islands, and in some nearby mainland valleys.



Link to NRDC one of the BEST... http://www.nrdc.org/land/forests/gb/gbsb.asp

[norml]

8. Somebody tell Colbert.

[pansypoo53219]

9. did anybody tell

steven colbert?