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Friday, April 30th, 2004
CBC News
WINNIPEG - Local environmental group Save Our Seine has been nominated for Canadian Geographic's Canadian environment awards.
The group is one of three nominees for the magazine's "restoration and rehabilitation" award.
Save Our Seine coordinator David Danyluk says the group's work to protect forest along the Seine's riverbank got it noticed by Canadian Geographic.
"The biggest project that we've worked on recently was the Bois-des-Esprits forest campaign, which the city and the province recently announced that they're going to protect all 80 acres of the A-quality habitat along the Seine River," he says.
"That project alone probably gave SOS the edge, perhaps, over other finalists to be included in the top three."
Danyluk says this is one of many honours Save Our Seine has received.
"Well, we're extremely flattered. We've actually, in the last two months we've received three awards now. The first award was from the Manitoba Naturalists' Society, which bestowed the prairie crocus award for the first time to a group as opposed to an individual in its nine-year history. And then last week we received the mayor's volunteer-service award for the environment."
The winners of Canadian environment awards will be announced on May 31 at a ceremony in Spruce Meadows, Alberta. If the group wins gold in its category, it will take home a $5,000 prize.
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