A partnership between four biosphere reserves from Canada and Germany has resulted in an initiative to promote tourism to the sites.
Saskatchewan’s Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve northwest of Saskatoon near Hafford is among the sites included in a new brochure dubbed Partners in the World Network.
The area includes a salt-water lake and a bird sanctuary.
The document, which also features the Canadian biosphere reserves of Georgian Bay in Ontario and Charlevoix in Quebec, as well as Rhoen in Germany, was recently presented at the University’s of Saskatchewan’s school of environment and sustainability.
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According to a news release, the partnership stems from a 2005 meeting. An agreement was signed in 2007 to share knowledge regarding tourism, agriculture, landscape management and education for sustainable development.
Two delegates from Germany visited Saskatchewan late last month.
“There are almost 600 sites in this worldwide network of biosphere reserves, but networks can only thrive if the people involved get to know each other, exchange ideas and implement joint projects,” Karl-Friedrich Abe, head of administration of the Rhoen Biosphere Reserve/Thuringia, said in a news release.
