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| WNAG Announces George River Boreal Forest Flag Expedition |
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Ambitious trek into remote wilderness now underway
9/12/2006 - Members of the WNAG 3rd Flag expedition, now underway, will be in virtual isolation for approximately three weeks while canoeing toward Ungava Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
Team leader and WNAG Signature Member, Rob Mullen will navigate the George River and capture on canvass and in a special 'Flag' journal, his experiences along the way.
Accompanying Mullen on his adventure are other internationally recognized nature artists and WNAG Signature Members, including Robert Bateman, Lindsey Foggett and Jay Johnson. Also on the journey will be artists Jean-Louis Courteau, Lee Kromschroeder and John Pitcher, wilderness canoeists and photographers Gary & Joanie McGuffin, Dr. Stephen Loring of the Smithsonian Institution, and Dr. Jim Evans, an MD and Search and Rescue expert.
The 'George', a remote wilderness river, winding between the tundra and boreal forest ecosystems, flows for 500 kilometers northward to Kangiqsualujjuaq on Ungava Bay on the Arctic Ocean, just west of the Torngat Mountains and the Labrador/Quebec border.
The trip's focus is the Boreal Forest, the largest intact forest on Earth. Critical for climate, water, habitat, native culture, timber, minerals and energy, it is underappreciated and threatened by unsustainable development making it one of the greatest and most pressing conservation opportunities in the world. This is also the season for the migration of the George River woodland caribou herd, the world's largest at nearly one million animals.
The journey will be the basis for a major art exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in 2008 and plans for a touring exhibition, which will include Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Denver, San Francisco, and New York, are also underway.
Along with the support of the Worldwide Nature Artists Group (WNAG), the expedition is operating under the aegis of the Wilderness River Expedition Art Foundation.
Media Enquiries:
pr@natureartists.com
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