Save the Boreal forest: big event at Montreal

Demonstration for the protection of the Boreal Forest

Sunday 20 February 2005

Departure: In front of the Statue at Mont-Royal Park at 1 p.m.



Great march!

90% of Quebec's boreal forest has been alloted to private companies while only 2.9% of this forest is pretected. In order to provide a vioce to these endanged forests, the march will proceed with a "tree-block" that will consist of recuperated x-mass trees that we have collected! Thus, it will be the forest itself that will be takingto the streets of Montréal in order to manifest their discontent.

If the weather si good enough, the march will be going with music, cirkus, tamtams, from all of us, and some Ents (tree-men) from greenpeace.

Uinited together we will end this ecocide and the attack on life itself.



We demand:

That the 8% of protected air be applied in full starting spring 2005:

We want 8% of public land to be protected under the statute of ecological reserve:
-including René-Levasseur Island
-including Vérandrye park

That the forest is managed collectively by local populations and not by in town far away. community control of ressources!

that the transformation of wood product take place in the regions where the harvest of trees takes place and not in large urban financial centers.

That our ecosystems andwork force are no longer submitted to the capitalistic economic rhythm that prioritizes profit and waste to the detriment of people and life itself.

That the forest is managed in biocentric, not anthropocentric, manner.



http://laterredabord.org/index_en.php (EARTHFIRST at Montreal)
http://www.soslevasseur.org/index_en.php