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« L’eau, le don de vie »
Le Grand conseil des Malécites fait appel aux gens de tout le territoire, aborigènes comme exogènes, pour échanger ensemble; pour faire honneur au don sacré de l’eau, et pour témoigner de nos inquiétudes croissantes. On vous demande d’apporter de l’eau de la région où vous vivez, et de parler pour ceux qui ne possèdent pas leur propre voix. Nous sommes responsables aujourd’hui pour ce que nous laissons à nos enfants et à nos petits-enfants.
OÙ : Au vieux cimetière à côté de la résidence du gouverneur sur le chemin Woodstock à Fredericton.
QUAND : le 9 juillet 2011
COMMENT : Cérémonie
- À l’aube : cérémonie du soleil levant;
- Déjeuner;
- 10 h 30 : réunion autour du feu sacré au vieux cimetière (à côté de la résidence du gouverneur;
- 11 h : introductions et cérémonie d’ouverture;
- 12 h : diner & rafraichissements;
- 13 h : cercle de parole (on encourage les participants à apporter une chaise);
- 16 h 30 : souper (souper partage; apporter votre assiette, votre tasse et vos ustensiles);
- Cercle de parole;
- Les Anciens allument leur pipe sacrée.
- L’eau est retournée au fleuve, à la terre et à la mer.
L’eau est le don de la vie. Nos fleuves, nos lacs, nos rivières, nos cours d’eau et nos approvisionnements en eau sont menacés.
La santé et le bienêtre de nos enfants et de nos petits-enfants (y inclus ceux qui ne sont pas encore nés) ne sont pas à vendre même pas pour des gains à court terme qui ne bénéficient qu’à certains.
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Rivers to Oceans Week, beginning World Oceans Day June 8 and encompassing Canadian Rivers Day June 12, is fast approaching and the Canadian Wildlife Federation is celebrating with the Water's Worth It! video contest. The contest is your opportunity to celebrate the water that makes Canada special and to make a real difference in the health of your local water body.
Send us a one-minute video telling us what’s so special about your local body of water and why it’s worth conserving. If you win, CWF will contribute $2,000 in funding towards a water-conservation project in your area. Our contest has been extended and we are now accepting entries until June 20, 2011, with online voting to choose the winner at RiverstoOceans.ca, from Canada Day until July 7.
You can also visit RiverstoOceans.ca for a variety of water-related resources including lesson plans, water ecology videos and information about Canadian aquatic species. Does your group or organization have a Rivers to Oceans Week event you want to promote? Email [email protected] to list it on our Rivers to Oceans Week Event Map. Check back often to find out about water-related events and activities happening across the country.
Together, we can make water conservation mainstream.
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Je suis en train de lire le l’éditiond'avril du New Internationalist - c'est à propos des travailleur.e.s en Chine et c’est ahurissant. Je ne peux pas distinguer la différence entre cette situation et l'esclavage. Souvent, les travailleur.e.s vivent dans des dortoirs à leur lieu de travail, loin de leur famille et leurs amis, ils n’ont pas le droit degrève, les salaires sont bas et les conditions sont pénibles. Certaines personnes ont recours au suicide comme une forme de protestation du travail.
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For immediate release May 26, 2011
Editor’s Note: For a backgrounder to this press release click document below:
http://asf.ca/docs/media/2011backgrounder-may15.pdf
St. Andrews, NB ….. At an international treaty conference in Ilulissat, Greenland from June 4 to 6, the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) will fight to save thousands of large Atlantic salmon from being killed in Greenland and Canadian fisheries.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), in its recently-released scientific advice to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO), states there should not be any harvest of wild Atlantic salmon in the ocean at Greenland and in the Labrador Sea. Mostly large egg-bearing females, these salmon are of prime importance to the seeding of the rivers of Labrador, the Maritimes, Quebec, and Maine.
These two-sea-winter (2SW) salmon are threatened with harvest throughout their long migration, not only at Greenland, but also along the coast of Labrador and in various Canadian rivers. Bill Taylor, President of ASF, said “Despite advice provided by ICES every year for the past ten, that the total number of 2SW salmon in the ocean is well below the number required to meet minimum North American conservation requirements, they continue to be killed in gill net fisheries in Greenland, Canada, and St. Pierre and Miquelon.”
NASCO has been successful since 2003 in reaching agreement with Greenland to limit its salmon fishery to internal consumption only, but the number of salmon this fishery killed ballooned from 12 tonnes in 2003 to 43 tonnes in 2010. ICES states that 80% or 10,000 of the large salmon killed at Greenland in 2010 were of North American origin.
In addition, ICES estimates an unreported harvest at Greenland of 10 tonnes (another 2,500 salmon). Some of these salmon are from endangered populations, protected under national legislation in the United States and populations that have been recently designated as endangered, threatened or of special concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).
Canada continues to allow the kill of large salmon in recreational fisheries in Quebec and First Nations fisheries in all provinces and a resident food fishery in Labrador. “Measures taken by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to stop the retention of large salmon in the recreational fishery in Labrador and allow one less tag for salmon caught as by-catch in the resident food net fishery in Labrador are welcome, but do not go far enough”, said Mr. Taylor.
DFO reported a kill of 7,800 large salmon in Aboriginal and 3,200 in recreational fisheries in 2010. “This significant harvest weakens Canada’s negotiations at NASCO to reduce the Greenland harvest,” continued Mr. Taylor. In addition, significant numbers of Atlantic salmon are taken illegally in Canada, and this unreported catch has been estimated by Canada to be at least 18.4 tonnes and would include many large salmon.
Returns of 2SW salmon in 2010 decreased from 2009 by 65% in Labrador, 51% in Newfoundland, and 14% in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Decreases in populations in Canada that are designated as endangered amounted to 11% along the coast of Nova Scotia and in the Bay of Fundy and 2% in the United States, where all remaining wild Atlantic salmon are listed as endangered. There was an increase of large salmon in Quebec of 7%. The estimated abundance of 2SW salmon in North American rivers was 12% lower than the estimated average abundance of the previous ten years, and was the second lowest of the last 40 years.
Mr. Taylor concluded, “In view of these sobering numbers, it is astonishing that Canada still allows the kill of large Atlantic salmon. It is of paramount importance for international negotiations that Greenlanders see that Canada is doing its utmost to conserve its salmon in home waters.”
ASF urges Canada to comply with the NASCO-agreed precautionary approach in fisheries management, and to implement management plans for all salmon fisheries that end the killing of large spawners, especially in rivers that are not even meeting minimum conservation targets. ICES estimates that, last year, only 62,470 2SW salmon returned to North American rivers, and this was before further harvests took place by in-river fisheries. Canada’s leadership is required at NASCO to strengthen negotiations with Greenland towards maintaining a zero commercial quota and reducing Greenland’s internal consumption harvest of wild Atlantic salmon.
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Contact: Muriel Ferguson, St. Andrews, NB:: 506-529-1033 (direct); 505-529-4581 (switchboard) and e-mail [email protected]
NASCO is similar to a United Nations of wild Atlantic salmon, comprised of countries that have a population of the species spawning in their rivers and/or migrating through their jurisdictions. These signatory nations are Canada, the United States, Norway, Denmark representing Greenland and Faroe Islands, the European Union, and the Russian Federation. At the annual NASCO conferences, these nations are represented by their federal governments for agreement negotiations and resolutions to conserve and restore wild salmon populations across the North Atlantic.
The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) is dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of wild Atlantic salmon and the ecosystems on which their well being and survival depend. ASF is an international, non-profit organization with headquarters in St. Andrews, NB and regional offices in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland and Maine. It has a network of Regional Councils in the five eastern provinces and in Maine and Western New England and 125 affiliated river organizations. ASF is represented at NASCO as one of 34 accredited non governmental organizations from North America and Europe and on the Canadian and US delegations.
