Working with coalition partners

The battle to save the Boreal forest, a vast ecosystem stretching from the Yukon to Labrador, is being fought on many fronts and Greenpeace Canada is working closely with other organizations to protect this global treasure. The entire international Greenpeace family supports the effort to stop clearcutting, whether by influencing markets and educating consumers in Europe or by pressuring irresponsible paper companies such as Kimberly-Clark, which is based in the United States. 

One of the most prominent environmental organizations in the US, The Natural Resources Defense Council, also targets this notorious company and collaborates closely with Greenpeace to force Kimberly Clark to stop using pulp from clearcut ancient forests to make its toilet paper and disposable tissues.

Greenpeace also works with other environmental groups including The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Wildlands League, Forest Ethics and The Rainforest Action Network. While these groups take different approaches, with some lobbying governments and others researching the ecology of the Boreal, all share the common goal of having the forest legally protected and implementing ecologically and culturally sound policies for how the land is to be used.

Conscious that the Boreal forest is the home and source of sustenance for many of Canada’s First Nations and Metis, 80 per cent of whom live in Canada’s forest, Greenpeace works and consults with those whose traditional territories are affected by destructive logging practices.