[ensu] Fwd: Public Forum on the Fate of Ontario's Parks
- From: "Rachel Riddle" <rachelriddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ensu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:02:34 -0500
>From: Melissa Tkachyk
>To: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Public Forum on the Fate of Ontario's Parks
>Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:47:22 -0500
>
>Public Forum on the Fate of Ontario's Parks
>
>Ontario is turning more wilderness areas into Disneylands for hunters
>and all-terrain vehicles
>
>Co-sponsored by Sierra Club Eastern Canada Chapter, Earthroots and the
>Peaceful Parks Coalition
>
>The Kawartha Highlands and other wilderness areas across Ontario are
>threatened by Bill 239 ?The Recreation Reserves Act?, which puts
>commercial development and high-impact recreation ahead of conservation.
>
>Bill 239?
> > strips away protection for the wildlife and natural environment and
>replaces it with increased access and privileges for all-terrain
>vehicles, snowmobiles, sport hunters and commercial hunt camps.
> > does not state how the natural environment and wildlife will be
>protected; in fact, those words are not even mentioned.
> > reverses protection legislation for Ontario?s Park system, setting a
>dangerous precedent for the future of wilderness preservation in
>Ontario.
>
>Come out to a public forum to find out more about the threats to
>Ontario?s Parks and Protected Areas and what you can do to help protect
>Ontario?s wilderness.
>
>PUBLIC FORUM
>Wednesday, March 12
>7 - 9 pm
>Room 308, Metro Hall
>55 John Street
>Toronto
>
>Speakers include:
>Elizabeth Tanner, Chair of the Local Stakeholders Committee for the
>Kawartha Highlands
>Mike Colle, Liberal MPP, Eglinton-Lawrence
>Melissa Tkachyk, Earthroots Wilderness Campaigner
>Evan Ferrari, Wildlands League, Director of Parks and Protected Areas
>Barry Kent MacKay, Animal Protection Institute, Toronto Star Columnist
>
>Plus a special theatre performance by the Tree House Players, a
>collective of professional actors and musicians that use the performing
>arts to raise ecological awareness.
>
>For more information, contact
>Melissa Tkachyk at Earthroots 416-599-0152 x12 or melissa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>www.parkalert.org
>
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>Melissa Tkachyk, M.E.S.
>Wilderness Campaigner
>
>Earthroots
>401 Richmond St. West Suite 410
>Toronto, Ontario
>M5V 3A8
>Canada
>phone: (416) 599-0152 x12
>fax: (416) 340-2429
>
>www.earthroots.org - Main website
>
>www.parkalert.org - Park Alert! Campaign
>www.wolvesontario.org - Wolves Ontario! Project
>www.oakridgesmoraine.com - Oak Ridges Moraine Campaign
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>Earthroots is non-profit, grassroots, environmental organization
>dedicated
>to protecting wilderness, wildlife and watersheds through research,
>education and action. Earthroots has 12,000 supporters in Canada.
>
>Ontario Parks under threat! Find out more at www.parkalert.org
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