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Protect The Taku Watershed!
- Benefitting
- Rivers Without Borders
- Website
- http://www.riverswithoutborders.org
- End Date
- 2010-06-15
What You Need To Do
The Taku Watershed, shared by British Columbia and Southeast Alaska, is a two-million hectare wilderness region, unfettered by roads or other development. The region encompasses boreal and temperate forests, alpine meadows, grasslands, craggy mountain tops and low lying sloughs. Among the watershed's diverse flora and fauna it is home to healthy, abundant runs of all five species of wild Pacific salmon.
But the Taku is at risk. The BC government is trying to negotiate land use designations that would leave key portions this area open for mining and other industrial development, as well as the ensuing access routes and roads. With salmon populations collapsing all along the west coast, the value of the Taku is more notable than ever.
Whether you are in Canada or the U.S., use our on-line action centre to write to the BC government and let them know why the the ecological and cultural values of the Taku need to outweigh short-term mining interests. Help keep the Taku as a stronghold for wild salmon. Take action at http://tiny.cc/2s9hd.