Global ReLeaf awards grants twice a year for its National 
     
     Community Reforestation Program. Application deadlines are 
     
     February 15th and August 15th annually. Contact Ellen Hagerman, 
     
     Global ReLeaf, 251 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J6. 
     
     Global ReLeaf is a program of the Friends of the Earth (adapted 
     
     from a Global ReLeaf release, 1994) 
     
    

    
     Congratulations go out to the P.E.I. Department of 
     
     Environmental Resources for the work which led to the April release 
     
     of the document Stewardship and Sustainability, A Renewed 
     
     Conservation Strategy for Prince Edward Island. If followed with 
     
     vigour, this document can provide increased momentum in the 
     
     conservation of our environment. 
     
    

    
     The Canadian Nature Federation released the paper Endangered 
     
     Plants and Invertebrates in Canada, Phase II (EPIC) in May 1994. 
     
     This paper’ provides recommendations on the identification and 
     
     conservation of endangered invertebrates, plants, fungi, and algae 
     
     and represents a considerable expansion of the current endangered 
     
     species work which deals primarily with vertebrate animals. 
     
     Theresa Aniskowicz, the CNF’s Conservation Director, provided 
     
     copies of it to the Federal and Provincial Wildlife Directors 
     
     meeting held at the Shaw’s Hotel in Brackley Beach the week of June 
     
     13th. 
     
    

    
     Congratulations also to Nature Saskatchewan on the successful 
     
     fundraising for the acquisition of a nature reserve on Turtle Lake, 
     
     an area I had the pleasure of birding in when the CNF held their 
     
     conference in Saskatchewan (adapted from Blue Jay News # 99). 
     
    

    
     In 1993, the Baillie Birdathon hosted by the Long Point Bird 
     
     Observatory allowed hundreds of volunteer birders across Canada to 
     
     raise $130,000 for bird conservation and research through the James 
     
     L. Baillie Memorial Fund (adapted from Blue Jay News # 99). 
     
    

    
     Turtle Watch has been formed 
     
     in Nova Scotia to study the status 
     
     of the wood turtle in Nova Scotia. 
     
     Should you be travelling in Nova 
     
     Scotia this year and see wood 
     
     turtles, please advise the committee 
     
     at Turtle watch, c/o Centre for 
     
     Wildlife and Conservation Biology, 
     
     Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S. 
     
     BOP 1X0 902-542-2201 ext 1469 or Fax 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     902-542-3466 (adapted from 
     
     Conservation 18:1 1994) 
     
     On April lst, Newfoundland brought in environmental 
     
    
   
   
    
     regulations on the use of All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). 
     
     Surprisingly, the regulations designate sandy beaches as an area of 
     
     legal use unless otherwise specified by the Minister. The 
     
     Protected Areas Association of Newfoundland and Labrador is 
     
     currently encouraging concerned individuals to write to Premier 
     
     Wells or Environment Minister Pat Cowan to suggest those areas that 
     
     should receive special protection (adapted from Fresh Tracks, PAA 
     
     Spring 1994).