Women Bare All to Save Island From Logging
Copyright 2000, Reuters
August 21, 2000
SALTSPRING ISLAND, British Columbia (Reuters) -- Some high-profile Canadian spouses are among 35 women to pose naked for a calendar to try to save their pristine Pacific Coast island from logging.
Andrea Collins, former wife of rock star Phil Collins, Birgit Bateman, wife of renowned painter Robert Bateman, and Denise McCann, wife of musician Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive and Guess Who fame, hope to raise money to buy some of the trees before they are cut down.
The calendar is the latest effort by the 9,000 island residents to stop Texada Land Corp. from logging a large chunk of Saltspring Island, 33 miles southwest of Vancouver.
``If the logging goes ahead it will be a wasteland,'' said calendar model Mallory Pred, 63.
Pred hopes the decision to bare all for the ``Saltspring Women Preserve and Protect calendar'' will also raise awareness of the issue. ``To be naked is to be as vulnerable as our trees are,'' she said.