With Toronto’s temperatures sitting a healthy 20 degrees above seasonal, you’d be forgiven for wondering what's going on with our climate.
We can’t answer that, but we can point you in the direction of an evening at the ROM that highlights one of the country’s most stunning environments while bringing up concerns over our gas-guzzling ways.
Thursday night, the Made in Toronto Film Festival and World Wildlife Fund Canada will come together to screen Spoil, an award-winning documentary made by the International League of Conservation Photographers on an expedition into B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. Images taken by the photographers on the expedition (like the really cute bear above) will also be on display.
The evening is being held to mark World Water Day, the UN’s campaign to promote clean water around the globe.
The Great Bear region of B.C’s north coast contains one of the largest tracts of unspoiled temperate rainforest left in the world and is also an important marine ecosystem. Large parts of the rainforest are protected but environmentalists are concerned that the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline project could damage the area.
“These amazing photographs, and the stories that accompany them, make it very clear that this is no place for an oil pipeline or supertankers,” said Darcy Dobell, vice president of WWF Canada’s Pacific Region. “Protecting the Great Bear Sea is like protecting the Galapagos Islands or the Amazon rainforest.”
The Made in Toronto Film Festival is a monthly event held to showcase the work of local documentary filmmakers.
Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, 416-707-1077. March 22, 7 p.m. Adults $15 advance/$17.50 door; students and seniors $13 advance/$15 door.
