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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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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!

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12:53 pm PST, Jan 19, Conor Lorimer, Canada

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8:29 am PST, Jan 18, Caer Flanagan, Florida

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8:21 pm PST, Jan 17, Melissa Mobeck, Washington

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6:47 pm PST, Jan 17, Name not displayed, Maryland

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6:38 pm PST, Jan 17, Marvin Wunderlich, Maryland
Wooden houses, tables, chairs all are trashed within a century. A natural habitat lives forever. Logging in the Great Bear must be stopped.

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6:02 pm PST, Jan 17, Sue Fronz, Illinois

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5:36 pm PST, Jan 17, Ellen Read, Tennessee

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8:15 am PST, Jan 17, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

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11:16 am PST, Jan 16, C Lisa Jackson, Oregon

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10:13 am PST, Jan 13, Kitchener Jones, Pennsylvania

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1:18 am PST, Jan 13, Name not displayed, Sweden

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6:15 pm PST, Jan 12, Name not displayed, Illinois

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4:10 pm PST, Jan 12, Lorraine Peters, Canada

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4:07 pm PST, Jan 12, Donna Hyatt, California

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12:03 pm PST, Jan 12, Ann Drechsler, Hawaii

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11:54 pm PST, Jan 11, Nora Paige, North Carolina

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6:03 pm PST, Jan 11, Leah Morgenstern, Canada
This area is being destroyed by logging, please stop the destruction now

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5:08 pm PST, Jan 11, Ted Weber, Maryland
The Great Bear Rainforest is a global treasure!

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1:03 pm PST, Jan 11, Angela Stone, California

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12:37 pm PST, Jan 11, Benna Keoghoe, United Kingdom
If there is one place on this earth that can still be as it naturally was, please let it be here. Protect the rainforests.

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12:07 pm PST, Jan 11, Emma Filipowicz, United Kingdom

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9:08 am PST, Jan 11, Mary Evans, Florida

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9:18 am PST, Jan 10, Hywel Abbott, United Kingdom

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8:57 am PST, Jan 10, Megan E, Georgia

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7:34 am PST, Jan 10, David Barnicoat, United Kingdom

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2:11 am PST, Jan 10, Name not displayed, Australia

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8:59 pm PST, Jan 9, Jarrett Morgan, Texas

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7:08 am PST, Jan 9, Warren Conner, Pennsylvania

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12:10 pm PST, Jan 7, Markku Sukanen, Finland

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5:41 pm PST, Jan 6, Simos Tarabatzis, Greece

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6:30 am PST, Jan 6, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania

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12:04 pm PST, Jan 5, Name not displayed, Austria

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10:09 am PST, Jan 5, Sue Harrington, California
wilderness/wildlife habitat MUST be protected....for our future! do the right thing!

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6:39 pm PST, Jan 4, Holly Maldonado, Georgia

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7:37 am PST, Jan 4, Grace Holden, Virginia

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2:26 pm PST, Jan 3, Jessica Yeo, California

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2:14 pm PST, Jan 2, Anna Woods, Maryland

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7:32 am PST, Jan 2, Chandra Patel, Tennessee

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4:08 am PST, Jan 2, Nijn Esra, Netherlands
because it's endangered

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8:18 pm PST, Jan 1, Raleigh Zellers, New Mexico

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4:24 pm PST, Jan 1, Messy Vegan, Texas

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12:52 pm PST, Jan 1, Teresita Garza, Florida

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7:38 am PST, Dec 29, Leah Hagan, Texas

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4:06 pm PST, Dec 28, Chelsea Wells, Wisconsin

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11:58 am PST, Dec 28, Nancy Ohm, Pennsylvania

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11:14 pm PST, Dec 27, Heidi Ellington, Pennsylvania

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6:23 am PST, Dec 27, Emily Sadler, Massachusetts

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4:47 am PST, Dec 26, Stach Roxana, Romania
protect tha nature= protect the future of life. we are not alone in this world, we have to protect and conserve and co-exist with all other species of wild-life. together we are the world.

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3:54 pm PST, Dec 25, Marc Rubin, New Jersey

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11:08 am PST, Dec 23, Caitlin Ba, Michigan

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