Oh no! or oh good! Less use...lower impacts.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dan Smith</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cag@geog.uvic.ca">cag@geog.uvic.ca</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM<br>Subject: [Caglist] Parks and forests not as popular with Canadians as they once were<br>To: CAGLIST <<a href="mailto:caglist@lists.uvic.ca">caglist@lists.uvic.ca</a>><br><br><br>
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<b>Parks and forests not as popular with Canadians as they once were</b>
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A new survey reveals Canadians are spending less time in our parks
and forests. The 2013 Global Green Space Report, produced by outdoor
product manufacturer Husqvarna, interviewed 4,676 people in nine
countries, including Canada, Sweden, China, Russia, the U.S.,
Germany, Australia, Poland and France in November. 2012. <br>
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More than 90 per cent of the respondents said they believe forests,
parks and gardens have a positive effect on quality of life, with 89
per cent going so far as to call them a human right. But despite
this, the time people spend in green spaces is decreasing all over
the world, with people in five of the nine countries studies
spending less “forest time” than five years ago. <br>
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Of Canadians, 36 per cent say the time they spend in forests has
decreased during the last five years, with 29 per cent saying the
same about parks.<br>
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<u>The Toronto Star</u><br>
<a href="http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/04/22/parks_and_forests_not_as_popular_as_they_once_were.html" target="_blank">http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/04/22/parks_and_forests_not_as_popular_as_they_once_were.html</a><br>
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