This Sunday,Aug 14th, Start time will be 9:30 AM  we will be cleaning up at Crosby where it crosses the German Mills creek.

Gloves and garbage bags will be supplied.  Please dress according to the weather.  Wear long pants and bring rubber boots if you have them.  Drinking water, a hat, sunscreen, bug repellant and a light snack are also recommended.

If you are interested in volunteering for this event or need further information please contact Joe Agg to register.  He can be reached by email: [email protected] or by phone: (905) 884-5012

Another lovely greenspace is under threat. The Province of Ontario has plans to build an intermodal transit hub in a natural heritage wildlife sanctuary that lies to the east of Keele Street, at the end of Rockview Gardens, south of Highway #7, and north of the 407.  This area has traditionally provided access to the Bartley Smith Greenway system and is the only greenspace readily accessible to the residents of Concord West.  The residents of the area have worked extremely hard to develop a detailed alternate plan for the transit hub, a plan that would preserve this much-needed greenspace.

If you support the preservation of the Concord West greenspace, please send a message to Premier Dalton McGuinty.

For more information on this issue and the resident’s plan, please see http://saveconcordwest.wordpress.com/

Boreal forests store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on earth – twice as much per area as tropical forests. Past estimates of this carbon greatly underestimated the amount, depth, and longevity of this carbon. As the most intact remaining forest on earth, the boreal forest also has exceptionally high potential to accommodate plants and animals forced to shift due to climate change.

Canada hosts most of North America’s Boreal Forest. Canada’s vast Boreal Forest stores an estimated 208 billion tons of carbon (71 billion tons in forests⁴ and 137 billion tons in peatlands⁵)—the equivalent of 26 years worth of global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.

This BorealBirds.org report questions whether international negotiations on carbon and forest protection have adequately considered boreal forests in light of the scientific findings outlining their significance.  For more information, please visit BorealBirds.org