WaldAktion British Columbia 2:Biography of Colleen McCrory- Over 30 years of environmental activism -
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Biography of Colleen McCrory Meeting Minister Trittin Meeting Lower Saxony Greens and Parliament back to News 2004 |
Colleen McCrory is Executive Director of the Valhalla Wilderness Society, an environmental group in southeastern British Columbia (Canada), that focuses primarily on wilderness, forest and wildlife protection. The society was formed to seek the establishment of a wilderness park to protect part of the Valhalla mountain range of the Selkirk Mountains in southeastern BC, something they achieved after a 12-year struggle with Colleen as their public persona. Colleen has won major international awards for her work in the
environmental field: the 1992 Goldman Environmental Prize for outstanding
grassroots environmental initiatives (the world´s largest environmental
prize, known as the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize),
the 1992 United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honour, and the 1988 International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources´ (IUCN)
Fred M. Packard Interntional Parks Merit Award. Colleen has won two
national awards: the 1990 Equinox Citation for Environmental Achievement,
and the 1983 Governor-General´s Conservation Award, and one provincial
award: the Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition citation for outstanding
contributions to protection of the environment, which was presented
by BC´s Lieutenant-Governor in June 1998. Links:
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Saving rivers and watersheds (Foto: Valhalla Wilderness Society) | ||||||||||||||||||
Saving the "Inland Temperate Rainforest" (Foto: Valhalla Wilderness Society) | ||||||||||||||||||
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