Can Climate Change Cause Conservation?
Monday, July 19, 2010 - 11:49
in Earth & Climate
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories – The scale of the conservation effort is staggering: 470,000 square miles – half the size of the Louisiana Purchase, five times the size of the U.S. national park system – forever shielded from logging, mining and damming.It is part of an ongoing and unprecedented drive to protect Canada's northern boreal forests, peat bogs , wetlands and tundra – a drive that is also changing how land managers view their stewardship, civic leaders approach economic growth and companies view their bottom line. And for the first time, some of the protections have a climate component. [More] Northwest Territories - Canada - Climate change - Yellowknife - Louisiana Purchase