Kingston Field Naturalists Endorse Pesticide Reduction Bylaw!

Sept. 12 , 2003

Kingston - The Executive of the Kingston Field Naturalists' (KFN), an organization of 300 members devoted to the protection and preservation of wildlife, voted to support PRK's draft bylaw as an effective means of reducing the chemical burden on the Kingston environment.

"We are extremely pleased that the KFN chose to support our campaign", said Nabil Mailloux, PRK spokesperson. "We believe that support in our community is growing and widespread, and that City Council should act in the public interest and adopt a pesticide reduction bylaw. After all, municipal elections are just around the corner", he added.

The KFN joins the Unitarian for Social Justice, Kingston Chapter, the Head of the Queen's School of Environmental Studies, and several family physicians who have also publicly endorsed PRK's campaign. Over 2100 people from every voting district in Kingston have signed petitions urging the City to do just that. Citizens can access petition copies as well as view the results from their districts by going to PRK's Electoral Map. Contact information for each councillor is also available.

To date, over 50 municipalities, including Cobalt, Perth, and Toronto have passed restrictive pesticide by-laws in Canada.