Saving Canada's Boreal Forests

Help save Canada's boreal forests that provide the vast areas needed by migrating birds. 30% of North America's songbirds and 40% of its waterfowl migrate here to build nests and rear their young. On the NRDC's (National Resource Defense Council) website it states that:

"Until recently the wildest stretch of the forest along the border of Manitoba and Ontario was in danger of losing these nesting grounds to new hydropower development. But in May 2005, the Manitoba government announced that it will seek alternative routes for proposed hydro transmission lines that would have cut through the forest. Yet until the government grants permanent protection to the region, the threat of transmission lines, roads, mining and logging remains."
The NRDC has joined other environmental groups in an urgent campaign to save this area. Go here to urge the Manitoba government to protect First Nations land in the boreal.