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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 creaturesĀ—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. ItĀ’s called the Great Bear Rainforest Solution: a groundbreaking measure that outlines sustainable logging in British Columbia, CanadaĀ—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, 2005Ā—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!

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10:53 pm PDT, Sep 8, Tonia Dalbec, Wisconsin

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10:46 pm PDT, Sep 8, Pam Boland, Georgia

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10:45 pm PDT, Sep 8, Name not displayed, Michigan

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10:44 pm PDT, Sep 8, C D Allen, Kentucky

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10:37 pm PDT, Sep 8, Jimmy Mach, Minnesota

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10:09 pm PDT, Sep 8, Mala Abdullah, Malaysia

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8:58 pm PDT, Sep 8, Ricardo Neves, Brazil

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8:31 pm PDT, Sep 8, Stephanie Lehr, California

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8:22 pm PDT, Sep 8, Karen Brown, Montana

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7:59 pm PDT, Sep 8, Erica K. Schultz, North Carolina

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7:46 pm PDT, Sep 8, Baleriana(Bali) Guerrero, Illinois
Have we as the human race not done enough to hurt our enviroment and the animals that inhabit it? Our world is deminishing very quickly. Does no one else see this? Well obviouly those that have found this website do! Congratulations for being a good person, thank you!

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7:39 pm PDT, Sep 8, Mary Katherine Marks, California

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7:27 pm PDT, Sep 8, Brice Grunert, Wisconsin

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7:19 pm PDT, Sep 8, Robert Knowles, Tennessee

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7:04 pm PDT, Sep 8, Ashley Genz-Foster, Louisiana

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6:59 pm PDT, Sep 8, Brennan Monaco, Florida

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6:53 pm PDT, Sep 8, Jen L, New York

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6:52 pm PDT, Sep 8, Anji Murphy, Washington

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6:47 pm PDT, Sep 8, Judith Gelinas, New Hampshire

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6:38 pm PDT, Sep 8, Charles Mcclure, Indiana

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6:27 pm PDT, Sep 8, Pamela Mcclure, Indiana

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5:58 pm PDT, Sep 8, Eliott Scheffler, Nebraska
Future generations would undoubtedly be appreciative if such rare action as this were taken.

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5:55 pm PDT, Sep 8, Bruce Combs, Virginia
My wife and I want our grandchildren -- and yours, too! -- to have at least as much opportunity as we do to enjoy nature and all its varied and wondrous wildlife all over the world. Fortunately for us, we can afford that kind of travel, but no amount of money can replace what has already disappeared or been destroyed. The world simply cannot afford to lose any more of its marvelous creatures or their precious habitat.

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5:36 pm PDT, Sep 8, Kristine Broadus, California

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5:32 pm PDT, Sep 8, Courtney Gartin, California

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5:21 pm PDT, Sep 8, Karen Bowden, Arizona

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5:12 pm PDT, Sep 8, Alex Deimler, North Carolina

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4:52 pm PDT, Sep 8, Marilyn Bartlett, New York

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4:26 pm PDT, Sep 8, Arleen Dalere, Texas
We are weakening the lungs of the earth and disrespectfully dishonoring the creatures that co-exist with us in name of progress. Our human desire for expansion and greed will leave us with nothing in the end if we don't take active involvement in maintaining the balance that is needed in order for all living things to survive on this planet.

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3:59 pm PDT, Sep 8, Nanette Belasco, North Carolina

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3:45 pm PDT, Sep 8, Dana Stewart, Missouri

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3:39 pm PDT, Sep 8, SUZANNE BAILEY, California

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3:29 pm PDT, Sep 8, Rhiannon Le Fay, Oregon

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3:22 pm PDT, Sep 8, James Hall, Texas

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3:19 pm PDT, Sep 8, Name not displayed, California

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2:52 pm PDT, Sep 8, Melissa Bayliss, California

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2:51 pm PDT, Sep 8, Maria Paniagua, California
there is no reason why a civilized society cannot be able to balanced human encroachment to the benefit of the ones that were first there.

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2:44 pm PDT, Sep 8, Name not displayed, Maine

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2:39 pm PDT, Sep 8, Runningfox Moss, North Carolina

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2:32 pm PDT, Sep 8, Jenni Cortinas, Wisconsin

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2:28 pm PDT, Sep 8, Kristi Knotts, California
You must not let this opportunity to protect one of your national treasures from the greedy logging industry.

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2:25 pm PDT, Sep 8, Carla Ohm, New Jersey

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2:24 pm PDT, Sep 8, Teresa Medlin, Illinois

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2:17 pm PDT, Sep 8, Calvo Elodie, France

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2:07 pm PDT, Sep 8, Terry O'Neal, Virginia

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2:05 pm PDT, Sep 8, Kristy Stein, Illinois
Please protect these bears. All animals are precious to this world, and we can not allow them to be in any danger.

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