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News from the Biodiversity Conference

28/05/2010 by Adriana

By AL HAYEK

A number of very interesting activities directed towards the goal of conserving Meadowbrook were conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27 and 28, at the summit on biodiversity and the greening of Montreal held  at the Gelber Centre on Cote-St-Catherine Road.

Hosted by the Conseil Régional Environment Montréal, the City of Montréal and Health and Social Services of Québec, the conference attracted 258 local and international delegates. In this international year of biodiversity, the purpose was to share greening experiences and to mobilize the decision makers of Montreal to protect biodiversity.

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Declaration in favour of biodiversity and greening

25/05/2010 by Adriana

by AL HAYEK

The highlight of the summit on biodiversity and the greening of Montreal, held on April 27 and 28 at the Gelber Centre and hosted by the Conseil Régional Environment Montréal, the City of Montreal and Health and Social Services of Québec, was Mayor Gérald Tremblay’s luncheon address and his  signing (along with twenty other local mayors and dignitaries) of the Declaration of the Island of Montreal Community in Favour of Biodiversity and Greening.

Signatories recognized six realities on the Island and hence agreed to eight actions.

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OP-ED: An argument for saving Meadowbrook

11/04/2010 by Adriana

Photos by Richard Dupuis

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Conserve Meadowbrook: A Project for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity

Meadowbrook Golf Course, that Island of Green in northern Lachine and southern Cote-St-Luc, is a welcome relief from the endless expanse of houses and factories, train yards and highways. An area of 57 hectares, with its original topography of undulating hills and ravines, contains row upon row of magnificent large trees, little thickets crowning its ravines and the Little St-Pierre River. It is home to rabbits and foxes and other small animals. Vestiges of the once grand forests that covered the Island of Montreal remain. In the spring waterfowl nest in its ponds and it is visited by the occasional deer.

This may soon change if the discussions presently taking place concerning the Lachine portion of Meadowbrook materialize. This rare natural area may soon become streets, sidewalks, driveways, housing and parking lots.

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