Save the Boreal

TORONTO
– Prominent Canadian authors, artists and musicians joined seven
conservation groups today in calling on Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty
to bolster his government's much anticipated climate change plan with
protection of Ontario's Boreal Forest. A letter urging the Premier to fulfill his pre-election promise
was sent by eleven prominent Canadians including Robert Bateman, Sarah
Harmer, Cathy Jones, Yann Martel, and Clayton Ruby. They join
conservation groups in championing an innovative plan to set aside vast
swaths of intact Boreal Forest in the face of global warming while
safeguarding threatened species and revitalizing Ontario's flagging
forest sector. It would also elevate Ontario as a distinguished
environmental leader within North America.