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CANADA MOVES FORWARD ON SAVING RAIN FOREST.

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Last February, the Province of British Columbia, Canada, acted to preserve what remains of the Great Bear Rainforest on their Pacific Coast. Now, the Canadian government itself has decided to pitch in.

according to the BBC:
"Canada has pledged to spend millions of dollars to help protect the world's largest temperate rainforest.

The government will allocate CAN$30m (US$26m, £13m) to maintain the area of British Columbia known as the Great Bear Rainforest.

The area is home to indigenous people, ancient trees and rare wildlife.

The 64,000 sq km (25,000 sq mile) forest is about twice the size of Belgium and spans the Pacific Coast from Vancouver Island north to Alaska
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said voters do not believe his Conservative government has focused enough on environmental issues since coming to power.

The federal cash will be matched by money from the government of British Columbia."
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This wilderness is the primary habitat of the Kermode Bear. The Kermode bear is a subspecies of black bears. Many of the bears are born with white fur. These are known as "spirit bears" and were believed by native peoples to be a reminder to humans of the misery of the ice age.