What Huffington Post Got Wrong on Darcy Belanger, Parvati.org & the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS)

ONTARIO, Canada, April 8, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Key points addressed in this release:

What is the truth about Parvati.org, Darcy Belanger and the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary?
Why was Darcy Belanger on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302?
Was Darcy Belanger trying to stop climate change?

An article originally published on Huffington Post Canada misrepresented certain key facts about Parvati.org, its founder and CEO Parvati, and its director of Strategic Initiatives Darcy Belanger, who died aboard ET302, as to the following points:

1. Parvati.org makes no claim to protecting the entire Arctic region. MAPS, the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary, is exclusively focused on the Arctic Ocean, not on any landmass.

2. Parvati.org takes no official position on climate change and makes no claims as to "stopping it".

3. Parvati.org is all-volunteer staffed and entirely self-funded. Darcy Belanger was on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 on his own time, and using his own funds.

4. Parvati is the Founder and CEO of Parvati.org, and the visionary for MAPS.

Since the Huffington Post has declined to post corrections from Parvati.org on the original Huffington Post article, Parvati.org feels a duty to set the record straight and present the facts as accurately as possible here in this official news release and on the Parvati.org website (see a corrected version of the Huffington Post article on Parvati.org).

Parvati.org is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to a healthy planet. Our first priority is protecting all life on Earth by creating the largest ocean preserve in history. The Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS) Treaty declares the entire Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle a marine protected area. The Arctic Ocean ice, our planet's air conditioning system, stabilizes our global weather patterns, and the availability of food and water that everyone needs to survive.

By making Arctic seabed oil and gas unavailable for extraction and exploitation, MAPS will accelerate a global shift from fossil fuels to renewable energies.
As countries come together to sign the MAPS Treaty, our world moves from short-term individual gain to the long-term collective good.
A healthy world is possible. Everyone has the right to know this.

Darcy Belanger, our Director of Strategic initiatives, was truly a champion for MAPS and a force of nature, one whose passing leaves an unimaginable gap in this work as well as in the lives of his family, friends and colleagues. Yet he also leaves Parvati.org with a deep determination to honor his legacy of courage, compassion and focus. He dedicated his life to moving MAPS to completion. Led by Founder and CEO Parvati, along with founding members Rishi Deva and Vandana Erin Ryder, the MAPS global family, hundreds strong and all volunteers, is rallying like never before to ensure that MAPS is realized.

"Darcy demonstrated every day his commitment to MAPS," says Parvati. "His legacy is what MAPS is about: the courage that recognizes our inherent interconnection and the action that arises out of compassion for all. May we live with profound courage in his honour."

SOURCE Parvati.org