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International Day of Biodiversity Celebration on Sunday, June 6 the day after Environment Day
Event Details
Time: June 6, 2010 from 2pm to 5pm
Location: North of Kimberley on Grey Road 13 #235453 just past the brown sand domb
Street: Grey road 13 school bus shelter at road on east side
City/Town: Kimberley
Website or Map: http://www.georgianbayearthda…
Phone: 519 599-5461
Event Type: celebration, and, action, plan
Organized By: Douglas Nadler
Latest Activity: Jun 2, 2010
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Event Description
What can we do in our region to work on solutions to curtail and turn around biodiversity loss? Authors such as David W. Orr have called the biological loss a "biological holocaust" This symposium will take place on Sunday, June 6 instead of May 22 since that is the Victoria week-end and many people may not be available to attend. This meeting will be the first of several to discuss and map out a strategy that will bring us to a larger symposium and implement an action plan in the fall.
2010 is the International year for Biodiversity but Saturday, May 22 is the day that it has been celebrated for years, and for many, a day to recognize that we must do far more if our Earth is to be recognizable in twenty-five years. All we have to do is look at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List or read E.O. Wilson's pleas for defending life on Earth, to realize there is a crisis happening.that will affect any attempt to create local resiliency. The UN's 2010 target for biodiversity failed. It's time we moved swiftly. This is a call to action for our community. Please join our group, Biodiversity and Climate Safety, if you wish to help organize this event.
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Comment by Douglas Nadler on March 20, 2010 at 12:26 -
"Inside reports from Qatar conference, reveals that Canada, led by 'advisors' in their Environment Ministry, are responsible for the ambush of the US delegation lobbying efforts to use the precautionary principle and ban the hunting of polar bears due to shrinking ice conditions. Wow, was the US in for a diplomatic shock! Canada spent Olympic size funds to lobby Africa countries and issued first class flights to several Inuit's to tell pathetic stories in Dubai about how this would take their livelihood away (the same stories as they have been telling in Europe for the seal ban!). They promised Japan to support their efforts to exploit the last of the Tuna in exchange that Canada have the right to exploit the last of the Polar Bears. What smart thinking, the US did not know what happened until after the vote.Canada has now stooped to all time historical lows on the international stage by teaming up with the evil pillagers and mafia type countries, who just see corporate dollars signs on all wildlife and free exploitation. Do we have a right wing suicidal government or not? Along with the tar sands issue, we must be the richest country in the world leading the charge to annihilate all life on earth. What a wonderful historical legacy for the Environment Minister, Jim Prentice to leave behind for our children bedtime stories." From B.C. Environmental Network
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Comment by Douglas Nadler on March 7, 2010 at 11:36
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A great website to understand a little more about biodiversity is www.biologicaldiversity.org E.O. Wilson's "The Diversity of Life" or a new and short book called "The Creation" brings home the urgency to act to protect life on Earth. In our area, with its fragmented forests, Georgian Bay's fishery in harms way as a result of invasive species, pollutants, over-fishing, aquaculture and climate change, and the relentless push to bring more pastureland under cultivation for ethanol-corn production makes it essential that those that are interested in transitioning to a safer and more just area, act together on biodiversity.
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