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BP oil disaster: In memory of all that is lost

NEW ORLEANS -- The anger is palpable across the Mississippi Delta. As the Deepwater Horizon oil geyser, almost a mile underwater, continues unabated, the brunt of this, the largest environmental catastrophe in United States history, is rolling onto the coast, impacting the ecology, the economy and entire ways of life.

I travelled across the bayous and towns of coastal Louisiana for four days, meeting the people on the front lines of the onrush of BP's oil slick. They are angry, out of work and read the papers about people getting sick.

Columnists

Marketplace campaign brings wilderness destruction out of the woods

Get out your hiking hat - I've got really big news. And, bonus, it's covered in trees and lakes and verdant blankets of 100-year-old mosses.

An unlikely alliance of Canada's forest industry CEOs and nine of the country's most impressive and aggressive wilderness NGOs has just signed an agreement covering a 70-million hectare swath of ancient woodland running all the way from British Columbia to Newfoundland.

In that vast territory, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement identifies close to 29 million hectares (bigger than France) of precious habitat where all road-building and logging will cease immediately and for the next three years until a detailed caribou habitat protection plan is in place.

Redeye

Protecting Canada's grizzly bears

June 5, 2013
| A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation says that a number of populations of grizzly bears in North America are at risk of decline. Jeff Gailus is author of the report.
Length: 11:18 minutes (10.36 MB)

Neskonlith opposition, a reasonable response to Imperial Metals' Ruddock Creek project

| February 23, 2013

KI Nation paddlers hunted by Wapusk, the polar bear

| September 25, 2012
Redeye

Strathcona Park faces threat of private development

October 28, 2011
| Clayoquot Wilderness Resort was granted permission to build infrastructure for their own private use in one of Vancouver Island's oldest and most extensive provincial parks.
Length: 13:42

Free Favourites at Four presents Project Grizzly

Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location

NFB Mediatheque
150 John (at Richmond)
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone: 416.973.3012
43° 38' 56.994" N, 79° 23' 27.3876" W

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Redeye

Ski resort threatens spiritual home of grizzly bear

December 5, 2010
| Plans for a year-round ski resort on the Jumbo Glacier in the Purcell Mountains of B.C. have stalled following a declaration of sovereignity by the Ktunaxa First Nation.
Length: 17:32
Redeye

Proposed Alberta Parks Act pits environment against recreation

November 18, 2010
| The new law will dilute protection of wilderness parks and give the Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation significantly more discretion than previous legislation.
Length: 11:18
Columnists

Coyotes in Nova Scotia: An argument goes awry

About this coyote business. As often happens when country stuff gets caught up in the city media, the argument goes awry. Thus the case, as presented in its skewed way, is that the province is prepared to announce a bounty, although by general agreement they don't work -- the alternative being to do nothing, which won't work either.

That's not the choice, and a bounty -- a payout to anyone who brings in a jaw -- is not what's being contemplated. Rather, it's some form of price support to trappers, a more focused approach.

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