11 October 2001

VANCOUVER, BC- International Research Institute Global Forest Society is pleased to welcome the Honourable Senator Mira Spivak to its Honorary Board of Directors.

Senator Spivak was the Deputy Chair of the Canadian Senate Subcommittee on the Boreal Forest in 1999, has headed Canadian delegations at Global climate change conferences, and is actively involved in many other campaigns to protect the world's natural environment. Senator Spivak was appointed to the Senate as a representative of Manitoba in 1986 and is one of only three female senators from this province.

"We welcome the Honourable Senator. Her passion for conservation and the environment, as well as her experience with the the Boreal Forest Subcommittee, make Senator Spivak an invaluable member of Global Forest's worldwide leadership team." says Dr. Reese Halter, President and founder of Global Forest Society.

Tuscon and Banff-based Global Forest Science (www.globalforestscience.org) is a forest biology research institute. With an international multi-disciplinary team of 165 scientists, Global Forest Science is a world leader in forest science research and has often been likened to the Red Adair's of the forest biology world. Global Forest Sciences' many victories ranging from legislation to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia, protection of the world's largest ant colony, opening an international insect quarantine facility and helping to save New Zealand's multi billion dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth. Global Forest Science is also dedicated to children's ecological education - visit GFAwesome.
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