18, avenue Alliance Montréal, Qc H4K 2C6 wwwwwww Gérald Tremblay Maire de Montréal Hôtel de Ville 275, rue Notre-Dame Est Montréal (Québec) H2Y 1C6 August 17, 2010 RE: Meadowbrook Dear Mayor Tremblay, The Green Coalition calls on you to protect Meadowbrook now - in 2010. Since the 1980s, the Green Coalition has supported Les Amis de Meadowbrook and their work to defend Meadowbrook from urban encroachment. In 1989, the Coalition insisted that Meadowbrook be included in the Montreal Urban Community's Green Space Acquisition Program. But, the “Moratorium” cancelled that initiative. Once again, this last unprotected green space in Greater Southwestern Montreal is threatened with destruction. In this special 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, Green Coalition implores you to honour the pledge you made in 2003 to save Meadowbrook. Please practice biodiversity conservation here at home! Validate your leadership on the international stage for biodiversity conservation around the planet. Act locally! Many Green Coalition members wrote letters to persuade you to maintain funding for the protection of Montreal’s last natural spaces. They are counting on you to invest the funds to enhance the biodiversity of our city; to conserve green oases like Meadowbrook for the health and well-being of all Montrealers. Please don’t leave the funds for 2010 on the table. Let’s remember that following public hearings on the Politique de protection et de mise en valeur des milieux naturels in 2004, the Office de consultation publique de Montréal recommended adding Meadowbrook as the eleventh ecoterritory. And also, just last year in 2009, the city’s own Labreque Commission clearly called for the conservation of Meadowbrook. Mayor Tremblay, please make the conservation of Meadowbrook and its Little Saint-Pierre River your personal priority in the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, so that it may become the keystone piece of the Trame Verte du Sud-Ouest, a green corridor to the Falaise Saint-Jacques, to the new green spaces at the Turcot and to the Saint Lawrence River. Yours sincerely, Al Hayek, President, Coalition Verte Partenaires du Parc Écologique de l’Archipel de Montréal (PPÉAM) www.greencoalitionverte.ca 1/2 cc. Monsieur Michael Applebaum,Vice-président du comité exécutif Monsieur Alan DeSousa, Vice-président du comité exécutif Madame Manon Barbe Monsieur Richard Bergeron Monsieur Michel Bissonnet Madame Mary Deros Monsieur Richard Deschamps Madame Helen Fotopulos Madame Lyn Thériault Monsieur Claude Trudel Madame Monique Worth Les Amis de Meadowbrook 2/2 .