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The latest trinational news.Monday, July 14, 2008
Ontario sets boreal forest protection plans.
Reuters Canada, July 14, 2008 - “The government of the Canadian province of Ontario said on Monday it will conserve a huge swath of the province’s northern wilderness in a bid to protect the region’s vast boreal forest, as well as polar bears and other wildlife, and to help fight climate change. The plan to protect permanently at least 225,000 square kilometers (87,000 square miles) of the northern forest—an area nearly the size of the United Kingdom—won praise from environmental groups, which said it should serve as an example for other governments.” Read more.
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