Wilderness report card. (the World Wildlife Fund rated each of Canada's provinces on environmental progress)(Sustainable Development - Forestry)
Canada and the World Backgrounder, October, 1995
The provinces and Ottawa have some lofty goals: to preserve a portion of each land ecosystem in the country by 2000, and a portion of each marine ecosystem by 2010. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), some jurisdictions are doing better than others in making progress towards those goals. In April 995, WWF issued a report card and said that Alberta had the worst performance of any jurisdiction in Canada. The Fund's criticism was based mainly on the Alberta government's approval of oil and gas exploration in Dinosaur Provincial Park. The park is designated a World Heritage Site because of the wealth of dinosaur bones that are to be found there. In 1993, the province changed the park's boundaries so the drilling would be outside its limits. British Columbia, on the...
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