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"The students in a fifth-grade class at Cambridge Elementary School in
British Columbia, Canada, were on an environmental mission in June. At
their annual summer fair, they sold food, crafts, games and
face-painting sessions to help save an expanse of forest from the chain saw.
Their efforts, and those of hundreds of other people, have paid off. In
an unusual crowdsourcing campaign, more than 1,000 students,
philanthropists, sailors, businesspeople and others raised 3 million
Canadian dollars, or $2.3 million in American currency, that the British
Columbia Parks Foundation needed to buy nearly 2,000 acres in Princess
Louisa Inlet. Known as the “Yosemite of the North,” the stunning
glacier-carved gorge had been eyed by developers this year.
“We hope that this gift will help you purchase the land and keep it wild
forever,” the fifth-grade students said in a letter accompanying the
$1,109.38 check they sent to the foundation in June."
Via Kam-Yung Soh.
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