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One-third of British Colombia's Great Bear Rainforest.(Brief article)
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September 22, 2006
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ONE-THIRD OF BRITISH COLOMBIA'S GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST--an area of 5 million acres, twice the size of Yellowstone National Park--is now protected from logging by the Canadian government.
"This rainforest agreement provides a real-world example of how people and wilderness can prosper together," says Merran Smith, director of ForestEthics' BC Coast Program. "And this is just the beginning."
ForestEthics, Greenpeace, and the Sierra Club of Canada collaborated on the effort to protect as much of the rainforest as ...
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