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Article: Fate of Many Birds in the U.S. Rests With Little-Known Canadian Boreal Forest; Report Release Marks International Migratory Bird Day, May 10th.
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- May 6, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study, Importance of Canada's Boreal Forest to Landbirds, released today in Seattle and Ottawa on the eve of International Migratory Bird Day (May 10), documents for the first time that one in every three of North America's songbirds is born in Canada's boreal forest.
"This study gives us an important new understanding of the immense global significance of Canada's boreal forest ecosystem to birds," said Cathy Wilkinson, director of the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI). The Ottawa-based Canadian Boreal Initiative has teamed up with a new U.S.-based Boreal Songbird Initiative (BSI) and other leading ...