Impression from the photo exhibition in Germany.

Cafe Galerie; Brückengasse 565549; Limburg an der Lahn; Germany

9 June - 3 November

Project Canada's First Photo Exhibition

Project Canada's first photo exhibition is a fact! Not in Canada, unfortunately, nor in my home country the Netherlands, but in neighbouring Germany. The address:

Cafe Galerie
Brückengasse 5
65549 Limburg an der Lahn

The exhibition will be there to view until November 2008. If you would just happen to be in that neighbourhood, please go take a look! It's a wonderful café with the best coffees, breakfasts and lunches. Yummie!!

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Petition to save the boreal birds of Canada

Many species are at risk in what are often considered to be the vast and untouched wildernessess of Canada. You will find an earlier post about wolves in this blog, but here is a new petition. This time about the songbirds of Canada's Boreal Forest. Gas, mining, logging and hydro development claim ever more of the forest, leaving ever less habitat for the species that call it home. Many songbirds migrate, so spend only part of the year in this area, but they do depend upon it for their breeding success.

The group 'Save our Boreal Birds' states:
"In recent years, we have seen long-term declines in many Boreal bird species. Rusty Blackbirds have declined by 95%, Olive-sided Flycatchers, Boreal Chickadees, Bay-breasted and Canada Warblers, and Evening Grosbeaks by more than 70%, and scaup and scoters by over 50%. "

Learn more about this issue, and sign a petition here.


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Stop the slaughter and sterilization of wolves in Alberta, Canada.

The Canadian government wants to kill wolves to leave more elk for rich hunters and to bring balance in the natural system again. The wolves are being blamed for a dwindling number of elk (and other prey species), while it really is our culture itself that has brought destruction to much of the natural habitat, impoverished the natural system and, though by a relatively small number of people, is shooting a lot of elk, very often just for trophies. Please help the government realise that it's not the wolf's fault: that they are in fact a keyspecies, and that they should rather look at our own culture's effects and start eliminating problems there!

Sign the petition here.

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