Save the Boreal Forest

At over 10,000 hectares, Canada's boreal forest has some of the largest clearcuts in the world. Many of these clearcuts are to produce unsustainable tissue products.

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Canada's Boreal forest is one of the largest tracts of ancient forest left in the world. Almost 80 per cent of the Earth's original forests have already been degraded or completely destroyed, making the protection of our Boreal forest all the more important.
One of the major threats to Canada's Boreal ecosystem is clearcut logging to make disposable products such as toilet paper and facial tissue. Greenpeace is working to stop the destruction of Canada's largest intact ecosystem by trying to persuade consumers, institutions and companies to choose ancient forest friendly tissue products- ones made from 100 per cent recycled content.

End the Destruction of Canada's Boreal Forest

Logging companies are clearcutting Canada's Boreal Forest - destroying one of the planet's last ancient forests. Three of the largest companies involved in this destruction are AbitibiBowater. They are wiping out the last intact areas of the Boreal Forest and trashing habitat of threatened wildlife. They are involved ongoing conflicts with First Nations communities and practicing some of the most destructive logging around.

Take action and tell the CEO of AbitibiBowater that Canada's forests are not disposable

Recent developments

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Greenpeace text action demands AbitibiBowater step into a green future

Greenpeace has unveiled a new twist to its campaign to turn AbitibiBowater from a company that destroys forests to one that manages forests responsibly and sustainably. We are calling on all volunteers and supporters to send text messages to Denis Leclerc, AbitibiBowater’s Vice-President of Environment and Sustainability. Tell him it’s time his company stopped destroying Canada’s precious, intact Boreal Forest.

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AbitibiBowater needs to green its operations to survive

Greenpeace sees AbitibiBowater’s current financial difficulties as the best chance for the company to develop a plan for long-term survival. AbitibiBowater, Canada’s largest logging company and the world’s largest newsprint manufacturer, has been on the brink of financial collapse for weeks.

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International Kleercut campaign gets global media attention by exposing Kimberly-Clark ancient forest destruction

Global media attention for Greenpeace's international Kleercut campaign leaves Kimberly-Clark alone in the Wilderness

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Green stimulus is needed for the environment and economy

Following last Fall's federal election, Greenpeace met with Canada's newly appointed Environment Minister, Jim Prentice. We were there to familiarize the Minister with our organization, environmental priorities and emerging issues. With the UN climate talks in Poznan looming, we asked what the government was basing their climate change targets on in light of the fact they are choosing to ignore the targets established by the global scientific community. His response was that their targets were based on the conflicting pressures of the environment and the economy.

2008 - Year in Review

In Canada, Greenpeace made bold strides in 2008 to deliver on our promise to give this fragile earth a voice.

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Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest

High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government's sophisticated tracking system and fiddle the records.

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RONA a ‘leader in forest sustainability’ with new procurement policy, says Greenpeace

Greenpeace congratulated the leadership of RONA (TSX:RON) in instituting a new progressive policy that will help conserve Canada's forests. The home improvement chain has announced adoption of their first procurement policy for wood products and Greenpeace believes that the RONA policy will change the game. It positions RONA as the leader within the lumber and home renovation sector on forest sustainability.

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McGuinty breaks faith on protecting the Boreal Forest

The Ontario government has approved a controversial logging plan that will destroy critical woodland caribou habitat and undermine key conservation commitments by Premier McGuinty, say Greenpeace and Earthroots. Every tree logged in the Ogoki forest will be pulped to make toilet paper, junk mail, and other disposable paper products.

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300 million reasons why AbitibiBowater needs a rethink

Third quarter earnings released by AbitibiBowater today highlight the failure of the logging company's strategy to address environmental performance and sustainability.

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