Sierra Club of British Columbia
- Website
- http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca
- Contact Name
- Sarah Cox
- Contact Email
- sarah@antispamsierraclub.bc.ca
- Location
- Victoria, BC
Sierra Club BC is a non-profit environmental organization whose mission is to protect and restore British Columbia’s rich tapestry of species and ecosystems. We have been a leader in many successful campaigns to protect forests and wilderness, including the Great Bear Rainforest, Clayoquot Sound, South Moresby, the Khutzeymateen and Carmanah Valley.
Conservation Alliance helps fund our Flathead River Valley campaign, which seeks to protect a globally-significant wilderness in the southeast corner of B.C. The Flathead adjoins Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, a World Heritage Site and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
The Flathead, compared to Africa's Serengeti for its richness of species, is under threat from a proposal for mountain-top removal coal mining and other energy and mining development. If the coal mine is approved by the B.C. government, the US Department of the Interior says heavy metals and other contaminants will reach the US border and Glacier National Park in less than 24 hours through the Flathead River.
The Flathead has the highest density of grizzly bears in the interior of North America, and the highest density and diversity of carnivores on the continent. Water in the Flathead River is so pure that scientists use it as a benchmark by which to measure water quality in rivers around the world.
Sierra Club BC and 10 other US and Canadian conservation groups petitioned the World Heritage Committee last year to declare Waterton-Glacier a World Heritage Site in Danger due to the proposed Flathead coal mine and other threats. In June 2009 the committee voted unanimously to send a delegation to investigate. The final report will be made available at the end of July 2010 during their sessions in Brasilia, Brazil. Learn more at www.sierraclub.bc.ca.
We aim to protect the lower one-third of the Flathead River Valley as a National Park and to establish a Wildlife Management Area in the rest of the valley and adjoining habitat.
We share our Conservation Alliance funds with three other organizations involved in the Flathead campaign: Wildsight, Headwaters Montana and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.


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