Posts tagged Biodiversity
BC Parks Proposes Parking Lot in Partridge Hills Wetland for Bike Trail Access

Is BC Parks taking biodiversity, climate accountability and meaningful consultation into consideration when it plans to build parking lots and more mountain biking trails in a sensitive wetland and aquifer that supplies area residents with sole supply of water? Local community members and associations express concern; receive form letter in response.

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Mount Work Coalition Needs Your Support

The Mount Work Coalition (MWC) is a non-profit society established last year to advocate for protection of the Mount Work region to protect it as a recreational and environmental treasure for present and future generations. MWC is run entirely by volunteers. We need your financial support. Please consider donating today.

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Open Letter to Saanich Mayor Haynes: Protecting 73 Acres of Forest at Hartland Landfill

Members of the Mount Work Coalition note with approval your support Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) and the purchase of 50 acres of land to create a new regional park. Given the importance you attach to preserving our green spaces, we hope you will apply the same logic when it examining the draft Solid Waste Management Plan currently under development by CRD staff which proposes the destruction of 73 acres of forest almost identical to the Mountain Road property you are working to save.

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Why it's Critical the CRD Stop the Destruction of Our Region's Forests

The CRD plans to destroy 73 acres of forest near Mount Work Regional Park to make way for blasting, mining and a massive expansion of the Hartland landfill. Here’s why it is critical the CRD stop failing us, shift away from ‘business as usual’ thinking, and get on side with biodiversity and climate action.

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