April 2006
Monthly Archive
Sat 29 Apr 2006
Article in NS News, April 26,2006
As North Shore residents, we live on the edge of a vast emerald wilderness, a lush ecostructure that supports many interesting life forms. This close proximity coupled with our nutritious garbage, fruit trees and bird feeders results in the inevitable sightings of the normally reclusive Black Bear that have always been a part of living on the North Shore.
What do we actually know about our local Black Bears? Would a little knowledge help us understand and appreciate them for more than their perceived nuisance status?
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Fri 28 Apr 2006
Wed 26 Apr 2006
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Bear crashes hockey game, mom saves kids
By Paul Waldie
Toronto Globe and Mail — Feb. 21, 2006
IVUJIVIK, Quebec — Lydia Angyiou’s kids sure won’t be giving her much trouble any more, now that they’ve seen her wrestle a 700-pound polar bear.
Angyiou lives in Ivujivik, a village of 300 people on the shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec.
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Tue 25 Apr 2006
Published: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 
Larry Pynn Vancouver Sun
The B.C. government is creating a new designation of protection for the so-called Great Bear Rainforest, one that seeks to protect biodiversity and address aboriginal needs while allowing for industrial roads and small hydro projects.
The province Monday introduced Bill 28, the Park (Conservancy Enabling) Amendment Act, creating 24 conservancy areas totalling 541,000 hectares, including 35,000 hectares of marine foreshore on the north and central coast.
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Sun 23 Apr 2006
The Impact of Global Warming on Aboriginal People
Take away the forests, and forest cultures die: That’s something that becomes painfully obvious when you look at a map of the world’s disappearing forests, and a map of the world’s dying languages. It’s the same map. But the forests aren’t all being lost to ill-considered clearcutting. In British Columbia, we’ve lost forests over an area the size of the United Kingdom to a beetle infestation, which is ravaging the countryside because the winters aren’t cold enough anymore to keep them in check. British Columbia hasn’t been this warm in 8,000 years.I write about all this in today’s Globe and Mail, here.
Tue 18 Apr 2006
Warm Buddy will produce a special Bear with a portion of the proceeds going to Bear Matters for Bear Rehabilitators in B.C.
Plush heat packs make a difference in lives of sick kids
ypang@nsnews.com
Compared to the average teddy, a Warm Buddy animal has a lot to bear on its adorably plush shoulders.
Ever since the North Vancouver-based company called Warm Buddy started to donate the oh-so-cute heat packs, many of them shaped as stuffed animals, the dolls have taken on healing and soothing duties for sick and disabled children.
“They’re extremely comforting,” said Warm Buddy president and North Vancouver resident Karen McKee. “I hear a lot of nice stories (about how) they’ve warmed kids up.”
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Mon 10 Apr 2006
(CNN program April 10, 2006)
Topic: Grizzly Rehabilitation Project
COLLINS: Bear hunters are out to kill, paying thousands of dollars to rouse bears from hibernation and then turn them into trophies. Animal rights activists are firing back.
COLLINS: Every winter in Russia, hundreds of bear cubs starve or freeze to death after their mothers are awakened from hibernation and killed by hunters. Others are fighting back, trying to help the cubs.
CNN’s Matthew Chance reports. But, first, a warning, you might find some of this video difficult to watch.
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