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Save the Great Bear Rainforest

Target: Gordon Campbell, Premier
Sponsored by: Forest Ethics

The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest intact, unprotected coastal rainforest in the world. It is also home to one of the world's most mystical creaturesÂ—the pure white Spirit Bear.

In an historic effort, corporations and loggers have worked with environmentalists and local communities to create an agreement to protect the habitat of this magnificent creature. ItÂ’s called the Great Bear Rainforest Solution: a groundbreaking measure that outlines sustainable logging in British Columbia, CanadaÂ—and protects five million acres of rainforest from all logging.

It has taken eight years to craft this vital solution and gather support from a remarkably diverse coalition. But time is running out! The government must act to permanently protect the Great Bear by September 30, 2005Â—as it has promised!

Please urge Premier Campbell to ensure the survival of the rare white Spirit Bears, wild salmon, and 1,000-year-old cedar of the Great Bear Rainforest by supporting the Great Bear Rainforest Solution.

deadline: 8-31-2006
goal: 10,000

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This petition has succeeded! Feb 7, 2006 — It's taken almost ten years of pressure, negotiation, tremendous effort and lots of help from you, but it's finally official: the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement has been approved by the government of British Columbia! Read more about this activist victory. Thank you for your interest. Please click here for more petitions.

Dear Premier Campbell,

I urge you to ratify the Great Bear Rainforest consensus package that was recently negotiated with First Nations. These agreements are the result of years of negotiations and planning involving many stakeholders.

These agreements require that you and your Cabinet formally and permanently protect one third of the region from logging, implement Ecosystem Based Management, and match the philanthropic money contributed to diversify local economies and broaden business opportunities in the region.

This is the one of the world’s rarest and most endangered forests and the largest unprotected coastal temperate rain forest left on Earth. The world is watching and waiting for these agreements to be ratified, as you have committed, by September 2005.

The time to act is now. Please let me know what steps your government is taking to ensure the September deadline is met.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

We signed the “Save the Great Bear Rainforest” petition!

# 50:

7:57 pm PDT, Sep 7, Lea Constantino, Canada

# 49:

6:57 pm PDT, Sep 7, Orestis Papadopolos, Greece

# 48:

6:39 pm PDT, Sep 7, Dori Kistner, Minnesota

# 47:

6:24 pm PDT, Sep 7, Mary Spain, Connecticut

# 46:

6:20 pm PDT, Sep 7, Lanie Costeas, Illinois

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6:14 pm PDT, Sep 7, Laurie Carr, California

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5:58 pm PDT, Sep 7, Laura Munsinger, California

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5:56 pm PDT, Sep 7, Cindy Cingranelli, Connecticut

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5:55 pm PDT, Sep 7, Linda Pearce, Florida

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5:55 pm PDT, Sep 7, Cheri Duncan, Tennessee

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5:44 pm PDT, Sep 7, Morgan Chivers, California
i actually think you should be protecting at least half of it, rather than the one-third proposed, but protect all you can. also, i sincerely hope that the area chosen for preservation is upstream of the logging areas.

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5:37 pm PDT, Sep 7, Richard Hollister, Arizona

# 38:

5:28 pm PDT, Sep 7, Bess Katerinsky, New York

# 37:

5:16 pm PDT, Sep 7, Matthew Fisher, Texas

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5:10 pm PDT, Sep 7, Maria Maldonado, Mexico

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5:07 pm PDT, Sep 7, Mel Lemke, Pennsylvania

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5:07 pm PDT, Sep 7, Shalina Spurlock, Delaware

# 33:

5:01 pm PDT, Sep 7, Cordy Brannan, Missouri

# 32:

5:00 pm PDT, Sep 7, Gibran Mancus, West Virginia

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4:49 pm PDT, Sep 7, Barry Hoover, Florida

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4:43 pm PDT, Sep 7, Amy Wheeler, New York

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4:43 pm PDT, Sep 7, Samantha Kiery, Florida

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4:36 pm PDT, Sep 7, Taryn Toma, Pennsylvania

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4:20 pm PDT, Sep 7, Marguerite Nicholson-Schenk, Pennsylvania

# 26:

3:53 pm PDT, Sep 7, Jean-claude Raabe-rousselet, France

# 25:

3:46 pm PDT, Sep 7, Fred Fall, New Jersey

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3:45 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Tennessee

# 23:

3:21 pm PDT, Sep 7, Wendy Hojohn, New York

# 22:

3:15 pm PDT, Sep 7, Eleanor Boyd, United Kingdom

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3:12 pm PDT, Sep 7, Kelsey Lissner, California

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3:00 pm PDT, Sep 7, Richard Linsenberg, Pennsylvania

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2:53 pm PDT, Sep 7, Amy Quarton, Illinois

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2:50 pm PDT, Sep 7, Michelle Maloney, Texas

# 17:

2:44 pm PDT, Sep 7, Anne Allen, Massachusetts

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2:37 pm PDT, Sep 7, Jackie Safran, New Jersey

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2:34 pm PDT, Sep 7, Mary Landry, New York
Please be a true world leader. The habitat you save, helps us all. We are all dwellers (and hopefully keepers and guardians) of this earth. Please lead the world. Thank You.

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2:32 pm PDT, Sep 7, Christopher Yock, California

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2:18 pm PDT, Sep 7, Anna Thomas, Washington

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1:37 pm PDT, Sep 7, Astrid Suchanek, Germany

# 11:

1:33 pm PDT, Sep 7, George Dutton, United Kingdom

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1:31 pm PDT, Sep 7, Wendy Brown, Canada
He must protect the Great Bear Rainforest as it and it's inhabitants because it is an integral part of B.C and Canada for it old growth forest and beautful landscapes and animals and should be protected for future generations at all costs. Who needs Kleenex when you can protect a magnificent grizzly bear and the like. eh?

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1:22 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Indiana

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12:58 pm PDT, Sep 7, Deborah Mccartney, Georgia

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12:42 pm PDT, Sep 7, Mary Basombrio, Oregon

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12:38 pm PDT, Sep 7, Flower Nicole, Vermont

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12:37 pm PDT, Sep 7, Name not displayed, Alaska

# 4:

12:17 pm PDT, Sep 7, Cheryl Ewald, Arizona

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12:11 pm PDT, Sep 7, Crystal Olson, California

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11:29 am PDT, Sep 7, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 1:

12:19 pm PDT, Sep 1, Liz Butler, Maryland

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