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WelcomeBased in Ottawa, the Canadian Boreal Initiative brings together diverse partners to create new solutions for Boreal Forest conservation and works as a catalyst supporting on-the-ground efforts across the Boreal by governments, industry, First Nations, conservation groups, major retailers, financial institutions and scientists. What's NewPrime Minister Harper Must Save Fish Lake, Say 12 Environmental GroupsFinal Decision Pending on Fate of B.C. Lake Sacred to First Nations Vancouver, BC, September 2, 2010 — Twelve environmental groups are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to save Fish Lake, home to 80,000 rainbow trout and sacred to the Tsilhqot’in First Nations. The groups are urging the federal government to heed the findings of its environmental assessment review panel and reject a proposed gold and copper mine that would destroy Fish Lake. Maintaining the role of Canada’s forests and peatlands in climate regulation
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   From the Globe and Mail New national park comes with twist In the old-growth forests and boggy expanses of the Mealy Mountains, the federal government is conducting an experiment in parks creation. The future park – to be developed on 11,700 square kilometres of this Arctic alpine terrain in eastern Labrador – includes the traditional hallmarks of protected status, with a key exception: Locals can continue to hunt there indefinitely. It was in February when the federal government announced the Mealy Mountain tract would become the nation’s newest national park reserve. The land has a rugged beauty. Icebergs drift past a long beach believed to be the one dubbed Furðustrandir (Wonderstrands) in the saga of Erik the Red. Swarms of Atlantic salmon fight their way upstream each year. “There’s very few places like it left on Earth,” said Larry Innes, executive director of the Canadian Boreal Initiative and adviser to the Pew Environmental Group. A former Albertan, he lives in Goose Bay and, as a lawyer for the Innu Nation, sat on the steering committee for the park proposal. “You have intact, fully functioning ecosystems encompassing entire watersheds.”
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