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Canada's Youth Eco Parliament

1 September, 2006 - Check out Canada's Youth Eco-Parliament for the 2006-2007 school year!

School groups — be it class, club or committee — are invited to participate in this program that engages youth in national discussions and local actions on environmental issues. They use the ecological footprint concept to analyze issues of sustainability in their school or community and carry out a local action project based on the results. The YEP program is intended to complement existing in-school programs run by individual provincial partner organizations.

Visit the website to register and discover how your school group can participate in discussion forums with students, teachers and guest experts; calculate your ecological footprint; and access a program guide with helpful case studies. The website also contains information on how students can win national prizes, such as the opportunity to take part in a Canadian stewardship conference.

The top ten schools across the country will have the privilege of sending one student delegate at the Canadian Stewardship Conference, to he held in September 2007 in Vancouver, BC.
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World Wetlands Day

2 February, 2007 - The second of February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

Each year since 1997, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and groups of citizens at all levels of the community have taken advantage of the opportunity to undertake actions aimed at raising public awareness of wetland values and benefits.
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