“ We’ve done it before, we can do it here. ” It’s a mantra that we have been saying over and over again in our campaign to protect the Boreal Forest. We can put in place lasting solutions that protect the forest and the wildlife...

Wikipedia says that sleight of hand is the set of techniques used by a magician to manipulate objects secretly. The word sleight comes from the Old Norse language meaning cleverness, cunning, slyness.  Well, despite being a ‘have’...

It was exactly 2 years ago today that I published a   blog on Sonora Island   - the southernmost end of the Great Bear Rainforest, within the traditional territories of Kwakwaka'wakw and Coast Salish peoples. In that blog I...

The Great Bear Rainforest. Photo: Oliver Salge/Greenpeace The road to safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest from industrial logging has been a long and winding one. Indeed, for Greenpeace it’s been a road-in-the-making for at...

The term Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is well recognized in scientific literature and certification standard s, and within the supply chain and in the policies of major forest product companies. IFLs are defined as unbroken...

This past week marked the seventh anniversary of the announcement of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements by First Nations, the BC Government, the logging industry and environmental organizations including Greenpeace. The landmark...

The Great Bear Rainforest is so vast that it’s taken me four years just to visit the extraordinary old-growth forested valleys and islands, and communities of the central and north coasts of British Columbia – Bella Bella, Bella Coola,...

When a major environmental campaign shifts from a stage of conflict and controversy to one of collaboration and solutions-making, public awareness greatly drops. Conflict from a mainstream media perspective is ‘sexy’ and solutions-orien...