Guest guest Posted August 8, 2008 Report Share Posted August 8, 2008 --Today for you 32 new articles about earth's trees! (382nd edition) --You can now RSS tree news in a regional format at: http://forestpolicyresearch.org --To Subscribe / to the world-wide email format send a blank email to: earthtreenews- OR earthtreenews- In this issue: BC-Canada World-wide Index: --British Columbia: 1) Tourists want more out-of-the-way places, 2) Destruction of Mt. Arrowsmith, 3) Many first nations don't live on land they want to destroy, 4) WFP defies CRD and continues to develop forest land for illegal housing, 5) 2010 Olympics legacy is anything but green, 6) Road Blockade in East Kootenays prevents Jumbo development, 7) Will the Clayoquot blow out happen? 8) Gov lies about stepped up monitoring of logging free for all, 9) Interfor's Adams Lake is so innovative they can log way more forest than previously allowed, 10) Who's behind the Immoral support for Ecotrust's heli-logging and highgrading? 11) Like losts forest famous pin oak on skyscraper's roof reaches 200 feet above the ground, 12) More on Clayoquot Sound, 13) Ancient forest hikes in the Prince George area, 14) Sliammon First Nation sues loggers in Toquana reserve, 15) " Sustainable " degradation of forested valleys, 16) Forest Practices Board upholds Sierra Club complaint regarding endangered northern goshawk habitat, 17) WFP stats, 18) More on Clayoquot Sound, 19) Cont. 20) Minister of Forests' light footprint logging only destroys largest rarest ancient trees, 21) Forestry is here to stay? --Canada: 22) Legacy of timber crib celebrated, 23) One quarter of all intact forests remaining on the planet, 24) Northern Boreal protection promise may not mean very much, 25) Early Researcher Awards program, 26) Immediately stop exports of raw timber from public forest! --World-wide: 27) Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation, 28) Indigenous people attacked for forestland all over the world, 29) Half a billion tonnes of tropical carbon emissions could be avoided with $1Billion in annual bribes, 30) Understand: Green Carbon, Brown Carbon, Gray Carbon, Blue Carbon, 31) Carbon-eating super tree fantasy, 32) Half world's monkeys and apes facing threat of extinction, Articles: British Columbia: 1) " A lot of people are interested in these more out-of-the-way places. It will be very good for tourism, " Barrow said. The website will be expanded to include more maps, photos, descriptions and sites, she said. As more people visit the big trees, WCWC hopes the base of support for wilderness protection will become wider, Wu said. " This will be a precursor to our fall mobilization, " he said. " Once people have seen these huge, Jurassic Park-like trees, they'll become strong supporters of legislation to fully protect the remaining tracts of ancient forest on Vancouver Island. " WCWC is planning a major campaign to protect ancient forests this fall, with rallies, petitions and letter-writing campaigns, Wu said. The aim is to get the ear of government before the spring election, he said. WCWC wants the provincial government to enact firm timelines to end old-growth logging on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland by 2015, with an immediate end to old-growth logging on the south and east of Vancouver Island and in valley bottoms. The environmental group also wants to see sustainable logging of second growth, with mills retooled to process second growth and a ban on raw log exports. To check out the WCWC website go to http://www.oldgrowthplaces.org http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/capital_van_isl/story.html?id=f\ ef23684-dbb4-4 79e-b7da-af9ff8c89b5b 2) One of my favorite places to hike has always been Mount Arrowsmith. The first time that I ventured up the mountain I was eleven years old and hiked up to the 'Saddle' between Mt. Cokley and Mt. Arrowsmith, with 2 friends and one adult. We tried to hike up to the main massif but snow made it too difficult so we resorted to sliding down the steep slopes, which was lots of fun. The hike up to the alpine ridges is through forests that are shadowed by the steep mountain slopes, have extremely short growing seasons, and are covered by snow through much of the year. Yellow Cedar (Cypress), Mountain Hemlock, and Alpine Fir are the dominant tree species. At higher elevations the rocky ridges are dotted with very old trees that take on the appearance of Bonsai, due to the extreme conditions and short growing season. A small park exists with the name of Mt. Arrowsmith Regional Park, but it is located on Mt. Cokeley and does not protect any of Mt. Arrowsmith. The entire forest surrounding these two mountains is privately owned by Island Timberlands who continue to log higher up the slopes each year. In 2006 senior management from Island Timberlands assured the public that they would buffer the important hiking routes to Mt. Arrowsmith. Since then they have heavily logged the areas in question with no regard for preservation of the trails. The slopes beside the Judge's route have been clear-cut extensively in the past year and the slopes of Mt. Cokeley, beside a small lake on the road to the old alpine ski lodge, have also been heavily logged. Almost half of the trees that were cut down appear to have been left behind. Much of the wood debris that is being left to rot has suffered the fate of long butting, a logging practice where only the prime part of the trees is taken, leaving the rest behind in order to save on transportation costs. This practice is not allowed on publicly owned land but there are no penalties for this type of waste on private land. The European Union has stipulated that they will only buy lumber that is certified as meeting with environmental standards. Island Timberlands claims they are meeting these standards but do the buyers really know what is happening on the slope of Vancouver Island's mountains? Trees being cut on Mt. Arrowsmith are over 4000 feet above sea level, with a growing season so short that it takes hundreds of years for a tree to reach only 18 inches in diameter. For more information and to support the preservation of Mt. Arrowsmith check out: http://www.mountarrowsmith.org http://islandlens.blogspot.com/2008/08/island-timberland-logs-mt-arrowsmith.html 3) You might not realize that MANY First Nations people do not live on the land that they claim as their Traditional Territory. Wet'suwet'en that live in Moricetown are logging out the Buck Creek watershed right now. They have to drive two hours, one-way, to get out here and take the trees. The permutations and complications of " First Nations' Stewardship " in many cases in BC represents an " absentee landlord " arrangement. This means that some of them view these lands as their " pantry " , or... it seems to me that they can exploit resources on these lands and not be directly impacted in their daily lives, as I am....as Buck Creek is.....as the forest ecosystems disappear. For the past two decades, ENGO's have tried and in many cases succeeded.... in manipulating First Nations, particularly Elders to oppose ALL economic development. The relationship has always been one of patronage and placing the Elders in harm's way, while the " instigators " remain behind the scenes. Community-, Band- and Nation-decision-making for First Nations come in many forms....most manipulations by-pass the real consensus models and create conflict within FN communities. Who has told you that FN " stewardship " means " wilderness " and preservation ONLY? First, " wilderness " is a human-oriented word, up here measured with a " distance-to-nearest-road " designation. Healthy ecosystems can retain attributes even with a " human " footprint. Second, nothing is really " preserved " in our BC ecosystems; everything is in constant flux...Old Trees are not the main value on-the-ground. Conservation of function and recognition of retaining resilient systems is an objective that may well be achievable. ENGO's have tried in recent past to emulate /imitate " government " with large sums on money, Central Coast, to create a new power-structure where development, even Land Use Decisions, are made that will " create new ways of doing 'business' " . ENGO's and the rest of " us " should STOP being false to our core values and get back to being environmentalists/conservationists. bcenvirowatch 4) Western Forest Products is pushing ahead with building roads meant for a housing subdivision, even though the Capital Regional District insists the company doesn't have the right to do so. In late July, the CRD sent the company a letter demanding it stop building roads on forest land around Jordan River and Shirley. The CRD says the work contravenes development permit rules. However, Western has replied that it does not need a development permit for road building as the land is still private managed forest land and comes under provincial regulations, not CRD rules. " Western does not agree that it requires a development permit for any activities that are currently being performed on the lands, " says a letter signed by the company's chief operating officer, Duncan Kerr. That does not mean the roads are being built for forestry purposes, Kerr said in an interview. " If the subdivision application is not approved, then we will likely use these roads for part of our future logging operations, but there's no question that the preparation work underway now is absolutely for subdivision purposes, " he said. Bob Lapham, CRD general manager of planning, said the regional district is getting legal advice on whether the road-building violates development permit rules. It is a tricky question, as the company is claiming exemption because the land is still classified as private managed forest land, even though it has applied to subdivide. " There's not a lot of case law testing this, " Lapham said. " The legislation was not developed with the idea that forest companies would become land developers. " The relationship between the CRD and Western has been strained since the regional district rezoned forestry land in the southwest corner of Vancouver Island to 120-hectare-minimum lot sizes. That move restricts the number of houses that can be built. http://forestaction.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/crd-wfp-tangle-over-forest-roads/ 5) Bruce McArthur, who headed up The Coalition to Save Eagleridge Bluffs, is taking me on a tour of what will be the 2010 Olympics legacy in his community of Horseshoe Bay. " It's been chopped in half and mowed down, " McArthur says of the wilderness that lay right over and above his house. " That's a problem. " What he's showing me is the result of re-routing the Vancouver–Whistler Sea-to-Sky Highway that joins 2010 Olympic venues between the city and the ski-resort town. Officials want to shave a few minutes off that trip, and increase capacity on the road, but that's meant a shortcut through a rare forest ecosystem, fragmenting a section of it beyond repair. That flies in the face of Vancouver's green and sustainable bid for the 2010 Olympics that won it the gig back in 2003. " That's one of the reasons Vancouver won [the Olympic bid] was because we pitched that we'd be the greenest Olympics ever, " says Boyd Cohen, from Simon Fraser University's Center for Sustainable Community Development. The 74 mile (120 kilometer) Sea-to-Sky Highway is beautiful but treacherous. The first half of the road snakes up Howe Sound, clinging to mountainsides that drop straight into the ocean below. The single lane highway is rife with blind curves and few chances to pass; it suffers three-times the province's average number of collisions per kilometer per year. The province decided to expand the existing highway in time for the Olympics in an effort to increase its capacity and safety, all except for a stretch of the highway in West Vancouver. Here in Horseshoe Bay, they decided to build a new four-lane highway through Eagle ridge bluffs and the woods behind. It was this stretch of nearly two miles (three kilometers)—home to the vulnerable, blue-listed red-legged frog, the rare coastal bluffs arbutus ecosystem, a mature Douglas fir stand, and flanks the Larsen creek wetlands—that attracted community and environmental opposition, led by McArthur, a retired project manager for non-road work. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=highway-of-good-intentions 6) Concerned East Kootenay citizens have set up a blockade approximately 50 kilometres from Invermere on the Farnham Creek Forest Service Road. People committed to keeping the area wild intend to halt road construction inside the Jumbo Glacier Resort Controlled Recreation Area. The road construction is taking place through the Farnham Creek headwaters in an alpine area near West Farnham Glacier, which is adjacent to Jumbo Glacier. If built, the road would allow resort proponents the chance to build a 'temporary surface lift'-yes, a ski lift-inside the proposed boundaries of the resort. However, the resort hasn't been approved yet. Opponents of the development claim the lift would be an unacceptable invasion into the Proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort Controlled Recreation Area. " Wildsight and the Jumbo Creek Conservation Society are appalled by this attack on the alpine and on due process, " said Dave Quinn, Wildsight's Purcell Mountain program manager. " Machines are tearing up the alpine in Farnham Creek headwaters as we speak-just so that a collection of resort proponents can lay claim to some territory. Well, that's not acceptable. It's not fair play and some individuals have gathered and intend to stop the game. " The road construction is occurring without public consultation and without an approval to proceed for the Jumbo Glacier Master Plan. The master plan has not received any form of local government rezoning, nor has it received local First Nations approval, nor has the provincial government signed off on it as a final Master Development Agreement. Local activists suspect the activity is an attempt to keep alive a " stale " agreement between Jumbo Glacier resort proponents and one arm of the B.C. government. " The proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort's controversial Conditional Environmental Assessment certificate expires in 2009, " said Dave Quinn, a program manager with Wildsight. " If the resort proponents show no progress by that time, they'll have to go back to square one. So this appears to be their attempt to squeeze in any progress they possibly can-and keep a very outdated certificate alive. " Quinn said the road and proposed lift is " a desperate attempt by a desperate developer for a doomed project. " He notes that after 20 years the Jumbo Glacier Resort proposal still doesn't have the necessary rezoning it needs to go ahead. http://www.wildsight.ca 7) From his home on Wickaninnish Island, just off Tofino, he sees the Clayoquot conflict not as non-native versus native but as a clash of values. " [it's] this conflict between economic development that is sound and has a future, and the short-term destructive approach, " Mr. Lawson said. He thinks there is too much cutting in Clayoquot Sound, and that a scientific logging plan that was drawn up following the big protests in 1993 is badly flawed. " I honestly didn't support the science panel [report] because I read it as soon as it came out and I don't think the environmentalists read the whole thing. There were holes in there big enough to drive 1,000 logging trucks through ... and we're seeing the result of that now, " he said. Mr. Lawson said no matter who wields the saw, it can't be right when swaths of 800-year-old cedar trees are cut down. Many native people feel the same way, he said. " There is a split within the native communities. .... Everyone isn't on the same page, " he said, although that internal conflict hasn't emerged publicly. " It takes a lot in a native community for people to stand up and go against their leadership. " But he thinks that may happen because Clayoquot, a UN biosphere reserve, is facing increased development pressure with a proposed open-pit copper mine on Catface Mountain, a proliferation of salmon farms in the protected inlets, and proposed dams on two rivers. " Things are going to hell right now. ... This biosphere thing is not working. It's been hijacked [by development interests], " he said. Mr. Lawson would like to see natives, environmentalists, government and industry working together on a vision for Clayoquot. " People have to look into their hearts to make it really work, " he said. " It's not about political manoeuvring or ego or crusading. It's about making a connection with the land itself, the way the old people did. Communicating with the land and creating a long-term vision. If it can't happen here, it's hard to say where or how it could ever happen. " Few people would disagree with that. But the path to the future may yet be marked by anti-logging protests in which there will be natives and non-natives on both sides of the barricades. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080802.CLAYOQUOT02/TPStory/En\ vironment 8) Provincial employees from natural resource ministries are working together to increase environmental monitoring and protection in the province's northwest, Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell announced today. " British Columbians have a history of working together to improve environmental management, forest health and stewardship, " said Bell. " Allowing the Ministry of Forests and Range's compliance and enforcement staff to respond to resource management issues covered by other ministries' legislation, and vice-versa, results in increased monitoring and protection of our natural environment. " Under the Resource Management Coordination Project the ministries of Forests and Range, Environment, Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and the Integrated Land Management Bureau share inspection and enforcement staff and equipment to ensure specific environmental standards are being upheld. Staff from each ministry are able to investigate and enforce things such as open burning regulations, land and mine inspections and waste management practices covered under the Environmental Management Act. The project currently includes staff based in Prince Rupert, Dease Lake, Kitimat, Terrace, and Smithers. " This approach should be welcomed by law-abiding British Columbians as it will result in increased inspections and enforcement of environmental standards, while improving the amount of direct assistance available to the public, " said Environment Minister Barry Penner. " In addition to more training, co-operation between ministries and enhanced enforcement, the Ministry of Environment is hiring five more year-round conservation officers this year to increase our presence on the ground. " The project also aims to prevent conflict between humans and wildlife by providing residents in areas experiencing increased wildlife encounters with advice on managing garbage, yard fruit, pet food and compost – items known to attract wildlife. http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2008FOR0111-001202.htm 9) KAMLOOPS – The allowable annual cut increase for Interfor's Adams Lake innovative forestry practices agreement has been set at 15,000 cubic metres based on the results of the company's forest inventory, site productivity and deer winter range management projects. The Southern Interior Forest regional manager determined the increase after reviewing the company's application, forestry plan, timber supply analysis, and considering public and First Nations input. The company collected extensive forest inventory and site productivity data, which was used to support the increase in their allowable annual cut. Interfor has also developed a strategy that increases the area managed as mule deer winter range by 500 per cent. The determination follows the extension of Interfor's innovative forestry practices agreement to Aug. 31, 2011 and is similar in amount to the previously awarded increase of 14,870 cubic metres that expired at the end of 2007. The area in the Adams Lake innovative forestry practices agreement makes up about 180,000 hectares in the Kamloops timber supply area and includes land in both the Headwaters and Kamloops forest districts. The primary tree species are Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine and subalpine fir. Under the Forest Act, the regional manager can award an increase to the allowable annual cut of an innovative forestry practices agreement-holder. Licence holders must comply with conditions of the increase, the agreement, the Forest Act, the Forest and Range Practices Act and other relevant legislation. Under these agreements, licensees conduct activities above their basic obligations of forest management with a view to improving timber productivity. Copies of the regional manager's rationale are available on the ministry's website at: http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/rsi/IFPA/IFPA.htm 10) Green cover and immoral support for Ecotrust's heli-logging and highgrading of ancient cedar from the Clayoquot remnants and refugia is precisely the same logging targets and approaches in mind for the GBR. This critical cedar based ecosystem complex functions to arbitrate a marine nitrogen flux which, even in the event of massive disruption and damage to surrounding upland forests, can function naturally to restore species diversity, ecosystem complexity and impact resilience. The small but incredibly valuable alluvial forest interface can restore these logging damaged ecosystems provided it is left alive and fully functioning with all of its constituent types and species. But heli-highgrading the alluvial cedar zones rips the living beating cedar heart from our forests and guarantees that biodiversity, reslience, complexity and function in these and neighbouring areas will be conceded forever. Heli-highgrading the alluvial cedar compromises the marine forest nitrogen chain and it does so in the forest in precisely the same way that fishing down the trophic oceanic food web provides high catches and revenues just before it crashes in phase transition and stagnation. It is tragic and sickening that these would-be ethical environmentalists are so little concerned with the ecological and environmental consequences of their final industrial solution for our forests. bcenvirowatch 11) The pin oak, Quercus palustris, is technically the highest, if not tallest, tree in Vancouver, thanks to its lofty placement. And, it is actually a tribute to the Beach Avenue neighborhood's past, according to architect Richard Henriquez. A man with a love for history, he says he designed Eugenia Place to include details reflecting the site's storied past. A cluster of cabins stood on the site around the turn of the twentieth century. They were razed more than 60 years ago to make way for a four- story apartment building, which stood until the late 1980s. Footprints of those former structures can be found surrounding the present high rise. " I'm interested in history. I thought it would be really neat to have on the site representations of everything that had ever been on the site prior to us building the building, " says Henriquez, who founded Henriquez Partners Architects in Vancouver in 1969. The oak is a nod to the site's purest, earliest existence: the old-growth trees that stood on the shore of the English Bay before loggers made their mark on the land. " In order to round out the history, I thought it would be good to have a tree up at the same height as where the old-growth forest (reached), " says Henriquez. " It's sort of a poetic kind of response to the history of the site. " Old-growth (also referred to a " first-growth " by Henriquez) cedar, spruce and Douglas-fir were commonly 200 t 250 tall – some even taller. Understanding that the old-growth tree were likely Douglas-fir and cedar, the architect deliberately chose a non-native deciduous oak, realizing that he needed tree able to withstand the strong winds an wild weather likely to accompany life 200 feet. The pin oak was 15 years old when construction began on Eugeni Place, Henriquez says. The tree was planted on the roof in 1987 and packed dow with 100,000 pounds of soil. But, while Henriquez spent a good deal of thought on the tree itself, there was on piece of the vision he admits he neglecte to consider: the chore of caring for it. " I never thought about it, " Henrique says simply. http://www.jpmtree.com 11) Some of B.C.'s best-known environmentalists and their supporters gathered Saturday to protest against future development plans for Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound. But aboriginal leaders said their people should have the right to decide about the future of their traditional territories. Federal Green Party deputy leader Adriane Carr and the Watershed Watch Salmon Society's Vicky Husband said logging, mining and hydroelectric power plans for the virtually untouched wilderness are wrong. The two sides squared off at the rally in Tofino on Vancouver Island Saturday. About 150 people attended. " Is this what we want in our pristine valleys of Clayoquot Sound? " asked Husband. " I would say no. I would absolutely say no. So, I think we have to oppose all of these projects. " Currently, Coulson Forest Products, of Port Alberni, and First-Nations owned MaMook Natural Resources Ltd. have plans to log an untouched watershed north of Tofino. As well, Selkirk Metals Corp. and the Ahousaht First Nation are exploring Catface Mountain, located 13 kilometres northwest of Tofino, for copper. And, Synex Energy Resources Ltd., of Vancouver, plans to apply for a licence of occupation for a water project on Bulson Creek, located northeast of Tofino. Frank said until a treaty is settled, Ahousaht's traditional territory still belongs to the hereditary chiefs. " I never go to Europe. I never go to the Queen and tell her how to be in her territory. What gives the right of any other society to come here and say that to me and my chiefs? " " Give us a chance to do what we need to do on our own, " Frank said. And, while Carr and Husband support aboriginal rights and title in the area, Carr said if development must take place in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, it must respect nature. Holding up a photo of a clearcut near Hesquiat Point Creek, Carr questioned current logging practices. " This is not world-class forestry standards, " she said. " This is a clearcut, like the old-fashioned clearcuts that everybody knew would destroy watersheds, would lead to erosion, would lead to the siltation in our oceans, in our rivers. " http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gQkBUDRWXGDhGJ66paXVe761wNeg 12) In Clayoquot Sound, where a towering rain forest has achieved iconic global status, the first logging protests saw environmentalists and natives standing shoulder to shoulder. At Meares Island, Sulphur Passage and Atleo River, natives and non-natives faced arrest at blockades more than 20 years ago, while forging an alliance that would go on to change the face of British Columbia. But in that tangled, temperate jungle, where deer ferns stand waist-high and giant trees blot out the sky, environmentalists are now threatening to block a native-owned logging company from cutting trees. The alliance of natives and environmentalists not only brought a halt to logging on Meares Island in 1984, but in 1993, after a massive protest that drew international media coverage, it celebrated a resounding victory - the stoppage of clear-cutting in Clayoquot Sound. Is that powerful partnership now over? On the surface it might appear so. But nothing is ever as it seems in Clayoquot Sound, where dense fog banks can suddenly drift in from the Pacific to completely obscure the rugged, green mountains on Vancouver Island's west coast, near the resort town of Tofino. The split between environmentalists and natives emerged two years ago when ForestEthics, Greenpeace and other groups attacked two logging companies - native-owned Iisaak Forest Resources Ltd. and Coulson Forest Products, of Port Alberni - for cutting in pristine areas. The dispute has simmered in backroom negotiations since then, but last week it boiled over as environmentalists threatened blockades and international market boycotts if logging isn't stopped. " The situation is very serious, and very sensitive, " said Valerie Langer, spokeswoman for ForestEthics and a veteran of the 1993 blockades, which resulted in more than 800 people arrested and saw the band Midnight Oil playing to a dancing crowd in a clear-cut. http://forestaction.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/clayoquot-partnership-rotting-away/ 13) Once again, it's time to visit some of British Columbia's established treasures and unexpected pleasures. The Ancient Forest and other hikes in the Prince George area: A forest that plant biologists estimate to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old envelops us. These trees, cedars mostly, have massive trunks up to 16 metres in circumference, upper limbs that reach for the sun's rays, and lower limbs draped in moss. We are in the Ancient Forest, one of British Columbia's rare and hidden treasures, about an hour's drive east of Prince George. Though most temperate rainforests are found by the coast, this is the only known rainforest to exist so far (over 1,000 kilometres) from the ocean. About a dozen interpretive signs along the well marked, but unobtrusive 2.5-kilometre trail explain the significance of this 29-hectare ecosystem that has lain virtually undisturbed for centuries. One of the boreal giants, the aptly named " Big Tree " is a massive Western Red Cedar that measures five metres in diameter, and was likely a sapling when the Roman Empire was at its peak. A connecting trail leads through the dense forest, and after a mostly gentle 104-metre elevation gain, to a lovely waterfall. Treebeard Falls drops through a narrow notch in the escarpment and plummets 34 metres over a moss covered rock wall. The Ancient Forest is part of the Rainforest Conservation Corridor, one of the last places in the world where mountain caribou, wolverine, lynx, cougar, grey wolf, and both black and grizzly bear coexist. And it's one of many places in the Prince George area where nature and wildlife are easily accessible. http://www.canada.com/topics/travel/story.html?id=28f666bb-112f-4a38-abc8-5b4f23\ aa1cdc 14) The Sliammon First Nation in Powell River filed a lawsuit against a northwest forestry company and the provincial and federal governments on Tuesday " to compel cleanup of damage caused to its Toquana Reserve " in a 1995 landslide. " It was mud and debris and everything else, " Sliammon First Nation Chief Walter Paul said. " The slide came down through the valley and took out a lot of our reserve. " Mr. Paul said the slide happened because a provincial forestry road wasn't properly decommissioned. A culvert on the road jammed, creating the slide that " washed out access roads, damaged reserve buildings and destroyed fish habitats. " Plaintiff lawyer Murray Browne said the Sliammon have waited patiently for a resolution. " The Sliammon kept hoping that there would be efforts made to do a final cleanup, " Mr. Browne said. " There were some initial efforts but it hasn't really been completed. " Merrill & Ring, a forestry and land management company operating out of the Pacific Northwest since 1888, is named as a defendant. Merrill & Ring spokesman Norm Schaaf said he was not aware of any lawsuit. Mr. Paul said the landslide has had a severely detrimental effect on salmon stocks. " The landslide changed the course of the river, " he said. " A lot of the salmon fry got stuck in ponds that dried up. " Documents filed by the Sliammon in B.C. Supreme Court ask the defendants to " develop and implement a remediation plan in consultation with the [sliammon] to remediate damage caused to the lands, structures, waters and fish habitat. " The documents also allege that the province " negligently authorized or carried out road construction, decommissioning and remediation of logging roads and the bridge upstream. " The Sliammon are asking for " damages for economic loss, " as well as " exemplary and punitive damages. " http://www.bark-out.org/content/article.php?section=news & id=503 15) One of its sillier interviews was conducted this morning on CBC in Victoria. Guest host David Lennam interviewed a logger who supports " sustainable " degradation of forested valleys, in this case mandated by a native band. But trees will be replanted, asks the interviewer? So NOW what's the problem about logging in Clayoquot Sound? And will we get to see any more celebrities and rock bands? After all these years, after all the ink spilled and websites launched and interviews given, some media people STILL don't get the difference between cutting down trees and not cutting down trees. Preserving unspoiled ancient forests means NOT CUTTING -- not tampering, not roadbuilding, not polluting the air with heavy machinery, not in any way interfering with the processes of nature. Re-growth of a forest does not take 50 years' " turn-around " between logging sprees; it takes over a thousand years for the complexity of an old growth forest to achieve full biodiversity, and Clayoquot Sound is one of the few places in North American where a scrap of the primeval forest still exists. Whether it is undermined by " native " interests or by international logging companies makes no difference to the species wiped out by logging. The CBC host thanked the logger who promotes selective logging and sustainability, for " painting this picture for us " . If only he would interview someone from the Friends of Clayoquot Sound http://www.focs.ca , the Wilderness Committee, the Sierra Club or Global Canopy. http://www.naturalit.ca/2008/07/selective-interviewing-on-cbc-about.html 16) The Forest Practices Board has upheld a Sierra Club BC complaint that the endangered northern goshawk's habitat is under threat from logging on the Queen Charlottes. " The board's recommendations fully support our concerns about the destruction of goshawk foraging habitat, " said Jacques Morin, a biologist and chair of Sierra Club Haida Gwaii. Mr. Morin filed the complaint in September 2006, after the Forest Practices Board urged cautious management of northern goshawk habitat on the Charlottes to ensure the hawk's long-term survival. In the final report released August 1, the board agreed with Sierra Club BC that " there are no interim measures in place to conserve or protect foraging habitat " pending the release of an action plan from the federal goshawk recovery team. Goshawks are large hawks that rely on mature forests for nesting. The Haida Gwaii subspecies is nationally listed as " threatened " , which means that its immediate nesting territories are protected. However, the Haida Gwaii goshawk subspecies requires large tracts of foraging habitat that is not protected under either provincial or federal legislation. Scientists say that without swift action the Haida Gwaii goshawk could become extirpated within 10 years because the population is genetically isolated. In February 2005 the province said its goal was to lead the world in sustainable environmental management. Today's report demonstrates that three years later, endangered species in BC continue to be at risk. " This case underscores the need for BC to follow Ontario's example and pass stand-alone legislation to protect endangered species, " said Sierra Club BC Director of Campaigns Susan Howatt. " BC is at the back of the Canadian pack when it comes to protecting at-risk species like the northern goshawk. " http://forestaction.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/islanders-complaint-upheld-by-fores\ t-practices-bo ard/ 17) Western Forest Products: Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer with an annual available harvest of approximately 7.5 million cubic metres of timber of which approximately 7.3 million cubic metres is from Crown lands and lumber capacity in excess of 1.5 billion board feet from eight sawmills and four remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia while its products are sold in over 30 countries worldwide. http://www.stockhouse.com/News/CanadianReleasesDetail.aspx?n=6994677 18) A two-week truce has been called to cool a brewing dispute over logging a pristine rain forest in Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound. The last-minute truce was called yesterday, on the day declared a deadline by environmentalists. They had given notice to two logging companies to get out of Clayoquot Sound or face blockades. The break is intended to give environmentalists a chance to continue discussions with MaMook Natural Resour-ces Ltd. and Coulson Forest Products, said chief executive officer Wayne Coulson. " Dialogue is good, right? " said Coulson from his Port Alberni office yesterday. " Everybody needs to re-engage in the history and hopefully everybody will find a way through this. " MaMook is owned by local First Nations while Coulson Forest Products has headquarters in Port Alberni. Clayoquot Sound is on the west coast of Vancouver Island and includes land between Bark-ley and Nootka Sounds. Tofino is within the area. Coulson said he's optimistic a peaceful resolution is possible. Environmentalists also seem cautiously optimistic. Stephanie Goodwin of Greenpeace said yesterday there has been an effort over the weekend to come up with a forward to reach a meaningful resolution " because nobody wants to be in a place of conflict. " The environmentalists and forest companies focused discussions yesterday on developing a framework for future discussions, Goodwin said. " We're hopeful, " she said. Maryjka Mychajlowycz of the Friends of Clayoquot Sound said yesterday she felt there were opportunities to avoid a head-on conflict with forest companies. " We want to give that a full chance to succeed. … We are hopeful, we are optimistic. " The valley became a world focus in 1993 when 12,000 protesters gathered there. The 350,000-hectare area known as Clayoquot Sound was named a United Nations Biosphere Reserve in 2000. Still, some logging is allowed. The Scientific Panel for Sustainable Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound, implemented by the B.C. government in July 2005, " is probably the most stringent eco-based forest management in North America, " said Coulson. " It's there to protect the old growth forest ecosystem and if we can't make it work here it will never work anywhere. Everyone has a responsibility to make it work. " http://forestaction.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/truce-called-in-clayoquot-logging-d\ ispute/ 19) The heart of Clayoquot's intact forest is composed of a series of pristine valleys, many of which remain unprotected. Large valleys such as the Sydney Inlet are cradled by smaller but equally important stretches of wilderness like Hesquiat Lake Creeks. In the ocean channels lie impressive islands carpeted in old-growth forest. Clayoquot Sound's magnificent landscape supports some of the continent's largest predators such as wolves, bears and cougars; numerous shell and finfish populations, including five species of Pacific salmon; hundreds of thousands of migrating waterfowl and shorebirds; and marine mammals, including two types of whales and the second largest shark. Forty-five endangered, threatened or vulnerable animal species live in Clayoquot's undisturbed wilderness. Some of these animals have never seen a human or crossed a road. In 1993 Friends of Clayoquot Sound maintained a blockade of logging operations, which with 12,000 people and arrests of 900 peaceful blockaders, was the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Ecological Internet (then Forests.org) and many others around the world rallied to their support using the then new Internet to successfully globalize the protest. The protests were largely successful in ending industrial logging. A voluntary moratorium on logging in pristine valleys in Clayoquot was observed after the protest while a scientific panel reviewed how the areas could be logged in an " environmentally sustainable way " . In the meantime, old-growth timber has continued to be harvested from previously developed areas, though not from the untouched valleys. This is about to change. In March, First Nations-owned MaMook Natural Resources Ltd. and partner Coulson Forest Products began building logging roads into Hesquiat Point Creek with plans to start logging as early as this fall. This will be the first time a company has begun logging in such a " pristine " valley in nearly 20 years. Some things have changed since 1993, as a company owned by five local aboriginal bands now plays a role in cutting the ancient forests. Local groups are threatening a return to blockades in the sound and other types of protests and global marketing campaigns. Some of the logging ramping up is even " FSC certified " as well-managed, falsely implying sustainability. Triumph Logging Co. in partnership with environmental group Ecotrust Canada has setup a native shell company named Iisaak that has gained FSC certification to industrially high-grade log old growth ancient forests for their valuable cedar. The damage to ecosystems has been acute, demonstrating industrial forestry practices can never be ecologically sustainable. It appears the logging industry is using native involvement as a means to advance projects that might otherwise be politically unpalatable. http://forests.org/ 20) Pat Bell, Minister of Forests, says: " It is a very light-footprint form of log harvesting, a very small amount of timber that would be removed, " Yeah, helicopter highgrading the best red cedar from these ancient coastal forests removes 15% of forest timber volume but 70% of forest timber value and severely compromises the ecological interface and nutrient pathways arbitrated by huge ancient red cedar trees and the fish forest ecosystems they host. As usual, the Fake Environmentalists are taking this " negotiation " behind closed doors to buy off logging interests and bribe First Nations bureaucrats. The First Nation angle in this conflict is a red herring. There are no jobs on a dead planet and the threat to liquidate the balance of the sustaining forest unless enviro money and jobs are produced is simply a demand that they be compensated according to the same basis that Fake Environmentalism promised to compensate GBR FN's from their illusory foundation funded $300 million sustainable bribery cache. FN's are calling the FE bluff and exposing the celebrity enviros for the corporate couriers they have become. The celebrity enviros are going to fall flat over this and that means they will need to extend a public funded secure confidential 5 year planning frame over this fiasco to transact and obscure the outcome with some careerist solutions. stoneboat 21) Bell says, " It just doesn't seem to matter where I go in the province, whether it's union leaders that I'm speaking with, industry executives that I'm speaking with, woodlot owners, salvage loggers, log harvesters, silviculture folks, community leaders, First Nations, everyone of them says: We need to send a very strong message that forestry is here to stay and that it has a bright future. Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell's plans for the future of B.C.'s forest sector is old news. Recently appointed to the position, Bell laid out what he saw as his four-point plan for the forest sector's future success, during a telephone conference with media, but according to Columbia River–Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald there is nothing new. " Traditionally we have been the best in the world at cutting trees down and certainly I was part of that, in my previous career as a logger. We're the best in the world at taking round trees and making flat boards, but we really never turned our minds to growing trees and the value that can be created from growing trees, " Bell says. But Macdonald wasn't convinced of the efficacy of his plan. " The fact is with this government's policies they've lost over 20,000 jobs, more than 50 mills, and you have companies in this area on reduced shifts including here in Golden. There are things that need to be done that are dramatic, and I would characterize it as nothing substantive has been done by the government. " Macdonald said the current government has removed a lot of the tools that were there to work with the industry, and to make sure forestry would be strong after the down cycles finished. " You have these cycles constantly and this is not the worst down cycle we've had. And what governments have always done is made sure when the cycle was tough like it is now you maintain the capacity. " What, he said, this government has done is to remove so many of the tools they used to have..you don't have pertinence–a social contract between a community and the surrounding forest, so if you had wood coming out of an area than it had to be milled in that area. http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/thegoldenstar/news/26070569.html Canada: 22) Except for glimpses in old photographs and anecdotes of the log driving days, few people know of the timber crib -a massive raft made of squared logs- and the vital role it played in the settlement of the Upper Ottawa Valley. It thus made perfect sense the arrival of one at the Pembroke Marina, along with a replica of the famous Cochrane Pointer Boat, would be used as the kickoff for " From Roots to Rock, " a week-long celebration of 180 years of settlement at the site of the City of Pembroke. On Sunday, approximately 2,000 people crowded the banks of the Ottawa River to watch the historic moment as the crib reached the shoreline. In a year of anniversaries, it has been exactly 100 years since the last commercial timber crib travelled the Ottawa River and it was felt it would be ideal to recreate the structure and the experience to mark the event. Made of two dozen white pine logs, and weighing 21,000 kilograms, the timber crib has gotten around all summer, heading as far south as the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, making stops along the way to give people a chance to admire it. For Sunday's journey, the crib was assembled near Petawawa Point on Friday, then launched around 9:30 a. m., carrying a crowd of around 70 people. Among them were Pembroke Mayor Ed Jacyno, MP Cheryl Gallant, MPP John Yakabuski and people and their families who have been involved in the project from the beginning such as John and Dana Shaw of Herb Shaw and Sons Limited, Tom Stephenson who oversaw its construction, city councillor Terry O'Neill, Fred Blackstein and others. http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1142845 23) The boreal forest stretches across the northern part of Canada, touching almost every province and territory and covering 35 percent of the country's total land mass. It represents about one third of the world's circumpolar boreal system and one quarter of all intact forests remaining on the planet. The region supports three billion migratory songbirds and more than 200 species of animals, including dozens of threatened or endangered species such as woodland caribou, grizzly and polar bears, wolverine, lynx, and white pelican. Ontario's northern boreal region makes up 43 percent of the province's land mass, extending from the northern limits of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence forest to the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Under the plan, half of this massive region would be protected in an interconnected network of conservation lands. The announcement is significant not just in terms of conservation, but also because it marks the first time a government in Canada has explicitly recognized the role nature conservation must play in combating global warming. The boreal's forests and peatlands absorb and store massive amounts of carbon, making them a hedge against global warming caused by emissions from human activity. Scientists estimate that Ontario's northern boreal alone absorbs 12.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year. It's difficult to describe the global significance of Canada's boreal forest. It's one of the last places on earth where human activity hasn't yet upset critical predator-prey relationships, natural fire regimes, and hydrological cycles. As significant as the Ontario government's announcement is, we have to be cautious in our optimism. For one thing, we don't know if protecting 50 percent will be enough to conserve the region's biodiversity, particularly species like caribou that depend upon vast tracts of intact habitat. And we have yet to learn what areas will be put off limits to development. Fortunately, the government has committed to working with First Nations in the region to develop comprehensive land-use plans. We must also ensure that the government doesn't use its announcement to protect the sparsely populated and largely unthreatened northern boreal as justification for further expansion of industrial development in the southern boreal, which is far more attractive to industries such as forestry and mining. http://www.straight.com/article-156469/david-suzuki-other-governments-must-follo\ w-ontarios-br ave-step 24) Dalton McGuinty's promise to set aside half of Ontario's northern boreal forest for permanent protection may not mean very much. It's hard to say, because the promise is so vague. For instance, he could protect only the Hudson Bay Lowlands, which make up more than half of the northern boreal. Logging is unlikely to occur there in any event; so if that's what he's promising, the more desirable western half of the region would remain open to forestry companies. The forest in the Lowlands – the area that wraps around James Bay and stretches inland 100 to 350 kilometres – is transitional: the entire area is fragile, trees are small and can take 250 to 350 years to mature and replanting has a high failure rate. Nevertheless, protection in the Lowlands would still be useful in restricting access roads for mining, and in controlling corridors for power lines. The western half of the northern boreal is continuous forest. If McGuinty had promised the protected area would include at least half of it, it would have meant that no logging would probably occur on 75 per cent of the northern boreal, but protection would be assured where needed. In any event, the public will have to wait up to 15 years to get details on what will be protected. McGuinty expects research and the planning process will take that long. Not everything is off in the future, however. The Premier has promised no new mining or logging projects will be allowed until local land-use plans have been implemented with full support from native communities. This sounds a lot like a moratorium until an agreement is reached, which is what Indians have been seeking. This should put a brake on development while the protected areas are being earmarked and give the public the chance to see how the Premier follows through on this promise. McGuinty made a similar promise five years ago, but never kept it. http://blogs.greenpeace.ca/2008/08/01/cameron-smith-says-proceed-with-caution-on\ -boreal-promise/ 25) In an effort to spark innovative forest management strategies, the Ontario government is pouring $140,000 worth of funding into the province's Early Researcher Awards program. The program is directed at research that tackles methods to manage Ontario's boreal forest, and is part of an overarching goal to build an innovation economy in the province. The money will go to Lake Head University's Dr. Han Chen, to facilitate his research on ways to mitigate the impacts of rapid environmental change to Ontario's forests. Dr. Chen will develop monitoring strategies designed to improve forest management, while enhancing quality, biological diversity, and the ability of Ontario forests to serve as carbon sinks. http://www.pulpandpapercanada.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=87605 & issue=07282008 & r\ ef=rss 26) The Conservation Council is calling on the N.B. government to immediately stop exports of raw timber from the public forest after learning that the province's three largest license holders – Fraser Papers, UPM Kymmene and J.D. Irving – have been given permission to export wood from their Crown licenses. The government has exempted the companies from a clause in the Crown Lands and Forests Act that states that companies with licenses to cut wood from Crown land must process the wood in that region. Meeting the wood allocations of the sub-licensees operating on Crown land is the reason being used to justify the exports. In light of this, the Conservation Council is calling on the government to enforce selective cutting to supply the needs of the sub-licensees. Trees should be left standing to provide wildlife habitat. Trees should also be allowed to grow to a volume that provides a higher quality resource for local communities. Since only select tree species of certain grades and sizes are marketable at the moment then selective cutting only makes sense. Clearcutting and conversion to plantations simplifies our forest and destroys future opportunities for benefits from a diverse forest economy. " By exporting raw logs, we lose the opportunity to infuse our forest resources with our own labour. We are exporting New Brunswickers' jobs while increasing the burden on our forests. Continuing to clearcut on Crown land for export is merely forest liquidation and is not a practice of any sane forest management. Forest management needs to change if we are to have any healthy and diverse forest stands in this province, " stated Tracy Glynn, Acadian Forest Campaign co-ordinator at the Conservation Council. http://bugleobserver.canadaeast.com/editorial/article/364655 World-wide: 27) A shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation threatens the world's tropical forests but offers new opportunities for conservation, according to an article coauthored by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. " New Strategies for Conserving Tropical Forests " will be featured in the September issue of the leading journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Rhett Butler of Mongabay.com, a leading tropical-forest Web site, and Laurance argue that the sharp increase in deforestation by big corporations provides environmental lobby groups with clear, identifiable targets that can be pressured to be more responsive to environmental concerns. " Rather than being dominated by rural farmers, tropical deforestation is increasingly driven by major industries—especially large-scale farming, mining, and logging, " said Laurance. " Although this trend is pretty scary, it's also much easier to target a handful of global corporations than many millions of poor farmers. " The United Nations estimates that some 13 million hectares (33 million acres) of tropical forest are destroyed each year; but these numbers mask a transition from mostly subsistence-driven to mostly corporate-driven forest destruction, say Butler and Laurance. http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=104362 28) Indigenous peoples and farmers faced multiple attacks in Guatemala last month; while in Brazil, the government began preparing to station military forces on indigenous lands circling the border. In Canada, the Takla Lake First Nation continued blocking access roads on their territory, and in Fafak, 46 West Papuans were arrested, beaten, and humiliated for holding a flag-raising ceremony. Meanwhile, Indigenous People in Guam, Papua New Guinea, Peru, India, America, Bolivia and elsewhere, positioned themselves to resist a series of new development projects that threaten to devastate their lands, contaminate their waters, and help destroy their way of life. http://ahniwanika.gnn.tv/blogs/28996/Underreported_Struggles_16 29) New research done at Ohio State University and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that if wealthy nations spent collectively $1 billion annually to pay landowners in tropical countries not to cut down forests half a billion tonnes of carbon emissions could be avoided annually and deforestation reduced by one-tenth. Science Daily has the complete story, but this is the gist of it: Using three different forestry models, researchers assigned dollar values to each tonne of carbon which could be saved through 'avoided deforestation' in different parts of the world. Each has different economic and biological assumptions and calculated different values for carbon credits to calculate how much it would cost to avoid different emission levels. For example: The cost to achieve a 10 percent reduction in global deforestation through 2030, resulting in between 0.3 billion and 0.6 billion metric tons of reduced carbon emissions annually, would cost between $2 and $5 per metric ton of carbon credit – or between $0.4 billion and $1.7 billion per year. Achieving a 50 percent reduction in deforestation, and a corresponding 1.5 billion to 2.7 billion metric ton reduction in emissions each year, would cost $10 to $21 per metric ton, or between $17.2 billion and $28 billion per year, according to the model calculations.Ultimately, " compared to other options, an avoided deforestation program would be relatively cheap and practical for the United States. It would save American taxpayers money and provide a huge transfer of funding from one region of the world to another, giving developing countries a large chunk of the world's economic pie to use as they see fit, " study co-author Brent Sohngen was quoted as saying. http://www.treehugger.com2008/07/one-billion-dollars-could-slow-deforesta\ tion-reduce-ca rbon-emissions.php 30) Green carbon occurs in natural forests, brown carbon is found in industrialised forests or plantations, grey carbon in fossil fuels and blue carbon in oceans. Untouched natural forests store three times more carbon dioxide than previously estimated and 60 percent more than plantation forests, said a new Australian study of " green carbon " and its role in climate change. The scientists said the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Kyoto Protocol did not distinguish between the carbon capacity of plantation forests and untouched forests. Yet untouched forests can carry three times the carbon presently estimated, if their biomass of carbon stock was included, said the ANU report released on Tuesday. Currently, forest carbon storage capacity is based on plantation forest estimates. The report " Green Carbon, the role of natural forests in carbon storage " said a difference in the definition of a forest was also underestimating the carbon stock in old-growth forests. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSSP255954 31) Carbon-eating trees could convert most of the carbon that they absorb from the atmosphere into some chemically stable form and bury it underground. Or they could convert the carbon into liquid fuels and other useful chemicals. Biotechnology is enormously powerful, capable of burying or transforming any molecule of carbon dioxide that comes into its grasp. Keeling's wiggles prove that a big fraction of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes within the grasp of biotechnology every decade. If one quarter of the world's forests were replanted with carbon-eating varieties of the same species, the forests would be preserved as ecological resources and as habitats for wildlife, and the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be reduced by half in about fifty years. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21494 32) Almost half the world's monkeys and apes are facing a worsening threat of extinction because of deforestation and hunting for meat, an international report showed. " We have solid data to show that the situation is far more severe than we imagined, " said Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International and head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) primate specialist group. An assessment for an IUCN " Red List " of endangered species found that 48 percent of the 634 known species and sub-species of primates - humankind's closest relatives such as chimpanzees, orang-utans, gibbons and lemurs - were at risk of extinction. In a previous report five years ago, using different yardsticks, just 39 percent of primates were judged at risk. The IUCN includes governments, scientists and conservation groups. Habitat destruction, led by burning and clearing of tropical forests for farmland, and the hunting of monkeys and apes for their meat were the main threats. Some species were " literally being eaten into extinction, " a statement said. " Gorilla meat, chimpanzee meat and meat of other apes fetches a higher price than beef, chicken or fish " in some African countries, Mr Mittermeier told Reuters. He said that deforestation was aggravating hunting. Roads cut to help loggers and burning of forests to create farmland were opening previously inaccessible regions to poachers. Primates were suffering most in Asia, with 71 percent of all species at risk, against 37 percent in Africa. The report was to be released at a conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. In southeast Asia, human populations were higher than in Africa and habitats for orang-utans, gibbons or leaf monkeys were getting ever more fragmented. Demand for pets and Chinese hunger for traditional medicines were adding pressures. Among species most at risk, or " critically endangered " , were the Bouvier's red colobus, an African monkey which has not been seen in 25 years, and the greater bamboo lemur of Madagascar totalling only about 140 in the wild. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24130810-23109,00.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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