Media Advisory: Hundreds of Canadian Kids Send Message to Prime Minister on Climate Change

2009-11-09 14:16:06 -

OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/09/09 -- WWF's Panda mascot will deliver more than 800 postcards from school children across Canada as part of the My Future, My Climate Postcard Contest. The contest, described as an exercise in creative advocacy, encouraged kids between the ages of six and 14 to share their climate change solution through artwork, accompanied by a personal letter of appeal to the Prime Minister.



Keith Stewart, Director of WWF-Canada's Climate Change Program will be available in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre to speak to the urgent need for action on climate change from Canada's leaders in order to preserve our children's future.

Date:     Tuesday, November 10, 2009



Time:     10:30 a.m. - News Conference in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre,

          Centre Block, Parliament Hill with WWF-Canada's Climate

          Change Program Director, Keith Stewart



          10:45 a.m. - Photos of the Panda on the steps of Parliament with

          postcards and holding a climate change message

Contacts:
WWF-Canada
Ashley Brasfield
416-489-4567 ext 7228
abrasfield@wwfcanada.org : abrasfield@wwfcanada.org

WWF-Canada
Keith Stewart
416-985-5936
kstewart@wwfcanada.org : kstewart@wwfcanada.org