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International Conservation Community Adopts Parks CanadaÂ’s Ecological Restoration Framework

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Jejo, Republic of Korea, September 7, 2012 — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – the worldÂ’s oldest and largest global environmental network – today released new guidelines on ecological restoration for protected areas which were led by Parks Canada and modelled on CanadaÂ’s own national approach to ecological restoration.

“It’s an honour for Parks Canada to be a key participant in the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress, and for Canada’s ecological restoration framework to now be recommended as the international approach to ecological restoration for protected areas,” said Alan Latourelle, Parks Canada’s CEO.
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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