More than 70 prominent environmental scientists support the initiative of regional first nations in partnership with the governments of Manitoba, Ontario and Canada, to create the Pimachiowin Aki UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Pimachiowin Aki project has been in the works since 2005. The UNESCO application is complete and the target date for submission in January 2012. The designation could help promote tourism and would permit the first nations to share their culture with the rest of the world, Gord Jones, the project manager, said in a telephone interview with the Globe and Mail. It would also help them to “keep the land and use the land,” he said. “They feel their interests and their rights would be strengthened by this international recognition.”
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