Trout Unlimited, wild salmon, and Seattle restaurants
18/12/2009
Greetings everyone:
Now here's an article passed on to me that reminds us of the diversity of the potential wetland target audiences - and potential wetland actors - we could be working with that can make a difference in wetland wise use. Trout Unlimited is a US-based NGO with more than 150,000 volunteers dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America's cold-water fisheries and their watersheds. They have recently joined forces with a group of restaurants in Seattle to help raise awareness about the alleged dangers of a copper mine development project in the Bristol Bay area on a key menu item in the restaurants - wild salmon. The 13 Seattle restaurants have not only raised awareness of the potential impacts of the project on salmon with their clients, but also increased their own knowledge about where the wild salmon they are serving come from and the need for wise use of salmon habitat.
Read the full news article here: http://www.petroleumnews.com/mnfriends/03-48-1.html
Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat
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Sandra HAILS
CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
hails@ramsar.org
Tel: +41 22 9990176
Fax: +41 22 9990169
www.ramsar.org (go to Activities > CEPA Programme)
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Greetings everyone:
Now here's an article passed on to me that reminds us of the diversity of the potential wetland target audiences - and potential wetland actors - we could be working with that can make a difference in wetland wise use. Trout Unlimited is a US-based NGO with more than 150,000 volunteers dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America's cold-water fisheries and their watersheds. They have recently joined forces with a group of restaurants in Seattle to help raise awareness about the alleged dangers of a copper mine development project in the Bristol Bay area on a key menu item in the restaurants - wild salmon. The 13 Seattle restaurants have not only raised awareness of the potential impacts of the project on salmon with their clients, but also increased their own knowledge about where the wild salmon they are serving come from and the need for wise use of salmon habitat.
Read the full news article here: http://www.petroleumnews.com/mnfriends/03-48-1.html
Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat
***********************************************************
Sandra HAILS
CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
hails@ramsar.org
Tel: +41 22 9990176
Fax: +41 22 9990169
www.ramsar.org (go to Activities > CEPA Programme)
