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FSC voluntary forest certification in deep crisis

Blog entry by Tatiana Khakimulina | August 4, 2014

I have worked at Greenpeace Russia as a forest engineer for the past two years, focusing on monitoring logging activities by FSC certificate holders in the Boreal forest zone. I strongly believe that the FSC system is now in its...

Who's to blame? Time to pull out the mirror Resolute

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | June 9, 2015

Resolute Forest Product ’s  announced today the temporary closure of two paper machines at its Dolbeau and Alma paper mills in Quebec. The company management chose to blame Greenpeace for these closures. I think that is...

Why Forests Are Critical For Our Health

Blog entry by Amy Moas | July 27, 2015

How US pharmacy giant Rite Aid can make the ‘rite’ choice for healthy forests and healthy communities Forests around the world—including large swaths of intact forests —are some of the most beautiful places on earth.

Maker of Post-It Notes Lives Up to Promise, Begins to Eliminate Resolute Forest...

Blog entry by Shane Moffatt | October 12, 2015

Sustainability policies announced by corporations have been capturing quite a lot of headlines recently and for good reason too: new sourcing policies focussing on the environment and indigenous rights are good for our forests and...

Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | February 8, 2016

It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than...

Greenpeace ship coming to Canada

Feature story | July 18, 2007 at 13:30

Greenpeace announced today that its ship, the Arctic Sunrise, will visit Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Kingston this summer. The public is invited to visit the 162-feet vessel, which will promote clean energy alternatives to coal and nuclear...

Greenpeace launches website to track the use of 'good wood' in Olympic venues

Feature story | February 12, 2008 at 9:54

Exactly two years before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, a new spotlight is being shone on the Games’ environmental footprint.

AbitibiBowater adopts partial certification to deflect criticism of destructive...

Press release | September 4, 2008 at 10:00

In a move to calm critics of its controversial logging operations, Canada's largest logging company announced its intention to seek Forest Stewardship Council certification for roughly 10 per cent of its forestlands.

Santa and Rudolph joined caribou caravan celebration

Blog entry by rnieto | December 18, 2010

Santa Claus and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer joined the Greenpeace Caribou Caravan in downtown Toronto for a holiday celebration to help save Ontario’s own reindeer, the woodland caribou, and their home in the Boreal Forest of...

Canada’s Boreal Forest is worth more money if left standing

Blog entry by Alex Speers-Roesch | November 8, 2010

A growing number of studies are attempting to put a dollar value on biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by nature, such as water purification, flood control, and carbon sequestration. At this years’ meeting of the...

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