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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

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Bruce Cox Executive Director Greenpeace Canada Introduction to Greenpeace and Welcome to Boreal Forest Customer and Investor Roundtable	Normand Dumont VP Merchandising Rona Inc. RONA's vision for sustainability	Dr. Peter Lee Executive Director Global Forest Watch Canada The Importance of Intact Forests
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Recent developments

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Critical Chance to Save Woodland Caribou

The woodland caribou in Ontario’s Boreal forest is threatened with extinction because of the long history of forest destruction allowed by the Ontario government in the southern Boreal forest, the enormous area of the province where most logging, especially clearcutting, takes place.

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Failed audits, destruction of intact forests: Report reveals AbibitiBowater’s miserable logging record in Ontario

A new Greenpeace report shows that despite receiving advice to not extend AbitibiBowater’s licence in the English River Forest, the Ontario government allowed Canada’s largest logging company to clearcut thousands of hectares of vital woodland caribou habitat in Northwestern Ontario, increasing the threat to the survival of caribou, a provincially listed species at risk.

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Update on Indonesia: Greenpeace Canada forest campaigner detained after helping to shut down climate destroyer

Greenpeace Canada forest campaigner Stephanie Goodwin has been detained in Indonesia following an action yesterday by international Greenpeace volunteers to shut down Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a major logging operation in the heart of Indonesia's rainforests.

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Greenpeace Canada forest campaigner helps shut down Indonesian climate destroyer

A Greenpeace Canada campaigner joined other international Greenpeace volunteers today to shut down another major logging operation in the heart of Indonesia's rainforests, this one owned by Sinar Mas operated Asia Pulp & Paper (APP).

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Kimberly-Clark and Greenpeace agree to historic measures to protect Canada's Boreal forest

5 August 2009

Canada's precious Boreal Forest is better conserved today. So are ancient forests around the world.

At a joint news conference in Washington DC, Greenpeace and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, the world’s largest tissue-product manufacturer, announced an historic agreement that will ensure greater protection and sustainable management of Canada's Boreal Forest. The agreement also will stand out as a model for forest-products companies worldwide.

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XEROX: STOP DESTROYING INTACT BOREAL FOREST

Right now, the XEROX building downtown Montreal has been declared a forest crime scene by a team of Greenpeace’s volunteers. They are holding banners saying XEROX: DON’T BUY BOREAL FOREST DESTRUCTION at the entrance doors and handing flyers. In short, they are protesting the fact that XEROX buys and sells paper made from the destruction of intact areas of Canada’s Boreal Forest.