November in New Brunswick may have started out all frosty and furious, but all we got is warm fuzzies at the Conservation Council. Why? It’s membership month, of course. We’re only six days in and our members and supporters are responding with their typical charm. Get in on the action alongside your friends and neighbours […]
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CCNB Action needs your help to distribute our “Vote for Our Forest” cards. The cards, available in English or French, include 4 questions that you can ask the candidates seeking election in the next provincial election on Sept. 22. The cards can also be displayed in your window or door to show your support for
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The Conservation Council of New Brunswick has released a short video that shows remarkable forest loss in New Brunswick from 2000 to 2013. The animated maps reveal that the picture province is no longer home to large intact forest areas. The Conservation Council is concerned that the New Brunswick’s forest strategy will further degrade the
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Conservation Council of New Brunswick Media Release Fredericton – Premier David Alward is promising good news for the forest industry in response to their lobbying efforts for long-term access to timber supply. The Conservation Council encourages the Alward government to consider the long-term health of New Brunswick’s mixedwood forest and our forest dependent communities in
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Conservation Council of New Brunswick forest program director, Tracy Glynn, was featured in a Radio Canada International (RCI) story published on August 21st, on renewed calls to end the herbicide spraying in public forests in New Brunswick. “When we look around at our neighbours, Quebec banned herbicide spraying of its public forests in 2001, and it’s well
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Fredericton – Citing scientific evidence and public opposition, CCNB is renewing calls for the provincial government to cease herbicide spraying of the province’s public forest with the return of the 2013 spray season. Glyphosate-based herbicides are sprayed on 12,000 to 14,000 hectares of softwood plantations and cutover areas on public land in New Brunswick every year.
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