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		<title>New National Park a Boost for Boreal Species</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Credit: Parks Canada
Today the government of Canada announced the creation of a vast new national park. Mealy Mountains National Park will be larger than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined, and will act as a vital refuge for increasingly threatened species like woodland caribou and the eastern population of the Harlequin Duck.

Credit: Tom Vezo
In addition, the park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Peat and Palm Warblers</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=242</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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I recently did a radio interview with Robin Young on her daily show Here and Now, on Boston public radio WBUR 90.9 FM. I mostly discussed the global importance of boreal forests and peatlands and their ability to sequester and store massive ammounts of carbon, but also mentioned some birds have adapted well to peatlands, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People and Plants Have a Long History in the Boreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Today a report by the Boreal Songbird Initiative, the Canadian Boreal Initiative, and the David Suzuki Foundation was released about the increased need to recognize the traditional relationships between indigenous peoples of the boreal forest and the plants they’ve depended on for thousands of years. It’s easy to think about threatened wildlife or carbon storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boreal Forest Seeks Labrador Reliever</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=217</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Boreal Forest in Labrador Credit: Larry Innes I&#39;m posting a wonderful letter to the editor in The Labradorian about&#160;the need to protect&#160;boreal forests in Labrador &#8211; this&#160;one by our Canadian colleague Larry Innes of the Canadian&#160;Boreal Initiative. There are a whole host of migratory birds that breed in Labrador&#39;s Boreal Forest in the summer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timely Op-ed on Boreal Protection</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=216</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Boreal forest in Labrador
Credit: Larry Innes, CBIÂ 
One of my colleagues (and member of the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel) just wrote an excellent and timely op-ed in The TelegramÂ arguing that Canada&#8217;s real job on climate issues comes after the Copenhagen conference. Dr. Jacobs points out that Newfoundland and Labrador have extensive regions of boreal forest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Year of Biodiversity</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=215</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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This year, 2010, has been officially declared to be the International Year for Biodiversity by the United Nations. After thousands of years of agriculture and development (including the resource boom following the industrial revolution), humans have pushed increasing numbers of species to the brink of extinction, and unfortunately, many past the brink. It is estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Your Presents and then Get Outside!</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=214</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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Group of birdwatchers looking for birds
Credit: Garth Lenz
I just wanted to remind you birders out there that Audubonâ€™s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is currently underway and ends January 5, 2010. One of the best examples of what has come to be known as â€œcitizen scienceâ€, the annual CBC is a great way for birders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even in Victoria</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=196</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This pastÂ SeptemberÂ I had the opportunity and pleasure to spend time with some of my Boreal colleagues (and I mean humans not birds) in Victoria, British Columbia.

To get there we took the Victoria Clipper, a high-speed ferry, from Seattle. Although it was tough to look for birds because of the speed of the boat and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling All Boreal Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=213</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The followingÂ letter signed by prominent international scientists, including several members of the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC, was sent to the leaders of all eight boreal forest nations calling on them to protect their vital boreal carbon stores:
Download as PDF &#62;

Scientists Call on International Leaders to Protect Vast Boreal Carbon Storehouse
December 14, 2009
Dear Prime Minister Batbold, President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Logging Loophole?</title>
		<link>http://www.borealbirds.org/blog/?p=212</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Carbon the World Forgot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbon/Global Warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of our colleagues, Chris Henschel of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), has been running around the madness in the Copenhagen climate talks trying to increase the pressure on developed countries to set more ambitious goals on forest management. Forests, peatlands, and other natural ecosystems store tons of carbon, but this carbonÂ is easily [...]]]></description>
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