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Page 24, Whitby Free Press, Weckiesclay, April 20, 199 Eailh DaýY'94 Events at CAP centre The Oshawa Green Cap Con- servation Action Program (CAP) le planning a variety of events to raise awareness ofboth Earth Dav Apri 22, and the Green è nformation centre. A sulent auction, contests, ver- micompfosting demonstration and draw for a backyard composter wiIl be held at the centre 14KMng St. W., Oshawa on April 22,9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and April 23, noon to5 p.M. An autographed hockey stick, Oshawa Generals cap and T: shirt, Blue Rodeo cap and T-shirt are among many items up for bid in writing. There will also be face-paint- ing and a colouring contest. Answers to environmental quiz FROM PAGE 22 News continue te b. developedfo active chemnicals extracted fi-om plants. flat le one of the reasons that cutting down forests - both in the tropics and here at home - la so dangerous for our Iong-er health. Who knows what other miraculous substances nnght b. discovered in plants now threatened wlth extinction? 2. FIve We often thlnk of Canada as a land of lakes and forets and prairie but there are, in fact, 434 different natural regions in the country. And in some places, such as Point Plee National Park in Ontario, there are cacti. About haif a dozen différent specles of cactus have been catalogued fi-om Ontario west te B.C. Unlike those 20-footers in true desert reglons, however 'Canuck Cacti, only range in heigàit from a couple of incho te a foot. 3. From north pole to south pole Moat migratang Canadian birds start their tnip farther south in Canada and epend the winter in the southernUS. or Latin Amnerica Bird migration la a good exaniple of why environniental protection la an international issue -- even if we were doing everything right in Canajda, thoee birà dhat summer here wouldn't survive the winters if the forests were stili heing destroed in places such as Honduras, Venezuela and Brazil. 4. Three city blocke Some of those blocks we are tranipling are right here in Canada, while some are in other count a-es where the products we use are made. The big problem: as the people of the developing world start to consume more, their ecolcgical footprint wlll grow. If it were the same size as ours, the earth would have te be 200 per cent bigger ... there le just not enough room or enough resources. 5. The white pelican Canadlian populations of the white pelican have increased frm 16,000 hreeding ars in the mid- 1970e te 50,000 the xnd-19809. A blgfactr in therebound was legisiation protecting the species and its habitat from humnan intervention in the fourprvne where the pelican 18 found Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. 6. Plant brightly-coloured wildflowers. 7. A fundraising activity, borrowod from the Gek I" ¶:¶e t a-thons' in Canada this Earth Week will be the Canada Life Climbe for Wilderness on Sunda, April 24. In Toronto, Rpe 'wi be dlimbing the CN Toe;in Calgar, t.he Calgary Tower and in SL Jhn"', there wilî be a climb up Signal Hill. 8. 240 acres an hour Evey hour, 240 acresof Canaianwilderness is Icet te xmnng, hydro development lgighousing development andý argiuture. In 1950, 32 per cent cf the earth was forested. Today, just 12 per cent is. .9., Canada Canada has 244,000 kilomnetres of oast, divided into 29 biologically diverse marine regions. OnIy two of those regions have any prction for marine léf. JOANNE MARTIN-JOHNSTON of The Body Shop at the Oshawa Centre holds UP a specially designed Earth Day t-shirt, one of the prizes n a contest the store is holding for children aged 8 to 12. To enter, write a short essay, poem or soné to the tune of a nursery rhyme on "what 1 can do to make my world better" or "how my favourite place is 9getting ruined." Entries are to be dropped of to the Oshawa Centre store by April 22. Photo by Mark Reesor, Whitby Free Press Yard sale for Earth Day The flrst annual Earth Day yard sale will b. held Saturday, Apnil 23, 8 amx. te 4 p.m., at 585 Wentworth St. (east of Wilson Roed, Oshawa. The sale is organîzed by the Oshawa Green Cap Reuse Centre. Vendors are welcome. For more information, call 728-1263. 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