Canada to Protect Sprawling Boreal Area in Labrador. By Nathanial Gronewald, Greenwire, February 8, 2010. "Canada will establish North America's newest national park in an isolated corner of Labrador, the government announced February 5. At a press conference in the mining community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Canada's environment minister and top officials from the federal government and province of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the planned Mealy Mountains National Park. The areas includes boreal forest, bogs and tundra and is home to a variety of wildlife, including black bear, moose, red fox and an endangered herd of caribou. The park will be bigger than Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks combined, with about 3,800 square miles -- 2.65 million acres -- of land set aside. 'It is fitting that we are working to establish a national park reserve to protect this spectacular boreal landscape for all time, for all Canadians,' the Canadian environment minister, Jim Prentice, told reporters. Newfoundland and Labrador's government also says it will establish a new provincial park adjacent to Mealy Mountains to protect an important waterway there. Both governments also promised to consult closely with aboriginal communities as they move to establish the parks."
2010-02-15
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