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Forwarded post by Barry Kent McKay
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Edited press release

TORONTO, Sept. 6, 1996 ...  Brookfield LePage Management Ltd. of Toronto is
the first Canadian real estate management services company to launch a
comprehensive "Safe Flight" program to save many of the thousands of birds
that die each year from colliding with buildings during migration season.

"Up to 100 species of migrating and insect-eating birds collide with more tha
150 lit buildings, towers and signs in downtown Toronto each night," says
John Campbell, president, Eastern Canada Group, Brookfield LePage Management
Ltd. [Note from Barry...the largest strike I've experienced in the Toronto
area in one night was 1,600 birds, at a TV broadcast tower long since taken
down....about one third still alive that we could rescue].  "We are initially
committed to implementing this Safe Flight program in Toronto, starting with
the landmark property BCE Place, then rolling it out with the help of our
clients, tenants and employees, to buildings we manage that are in migratory
bird flyways."

The program focuses on ensuring that lights are turned off from dusk until
dawn during the peak migration seasons - in the spring (mid-April to early
June) and fall (mid-August to late October).

Says Kathi Bonner, Safe Flight Program coordinator, "We are asking our
tenants, employees and visitors to seek alternatives to bright night
lighting, substituting lower wattage lighting, to choose alternatives to
overhead lighting such as desk lamps and to draw blinds or curtains whenever
possible." 

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 The media release goes on to say that the company will seek to
minimize night lighting in all its properties and mainatin an information
camaign through a variety of communication methods aimed at tenants and
employees.

Brookfield LePage has properties in big cities across North America.  Why not 
e-mail them a thanks at:

teg@inforamp.net