{"id":1581,"date":"2011-11-30T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:55:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T19:55:23","slug":"duo-cycles-canada-for-forest-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2011\/11\/30\/duo-cycles-canada-for-forest-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Duo cycles Canada for forest awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

While many feel powerless to affect environmental change, a wildlife biologist and a musician recently cycled over 11,000 kilometers across Canada to raise money and awareness for endangered forests.<\/p>\n

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Jaime Hall and Nigel Jackett cycled across Canada for forest awareness (photo by Liza Dawson-Whisker\/Nexus).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wildlife biologist Nigel Jackett and musician Jaime Hall arrived tired but triumphant on a blustery Remembrance Day to a small crowd gathered at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous privilege in our society,\u201d says Hall, \u201cto travel so slowly and truly appreciate the distances involved in crossing the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple kept a blog of their daily adventures (tillthelasttree.com<\/a>) and a log of birds they spotted along the way; for each new species of bird added they collected pledges, amounting to 333 species and over $4,000 by the end of the journey.<\/p>\n

The money raised will go to the Ancient Forest Alliance, a BC organization working to protect the province\u2019s old-growth forests and to ensure sustainable forestry jobs in the province.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving met so many passionate, conservation-minded Canadians on our ride, I feel like we are so close to changing the outdated environmental policies currently employed by the government,\u201d says the Australia-based Jackett, who saw the cycling trip as an opportunity to do something close to his heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have keep pushing for this; the old-growth forests are on the brink,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The couple also hopes to raise awareness about the province\u2019s old-growth forest management strategies, as well as what they say are the broken lines of communication between government ministries.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing the rest of Canada in such detail also reinforces how unique BC\u2019s old-growth forests are,\u201d says Hall, \u201cand how vital it is to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While many feel powerless to affect environmental change, a wildlife biologist and a musician recently cycled over 11,000 kilometers across Canada to raise money and awareness for endangered forests. Wildlife biologist Nigel Jackett and musician Jaime Hall arrived tired but triumphant on a blustery Remembrance Day to a small crowd gathered at Beacon Hill Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-november-30-2011"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t