Great Bear Rainforest: Saved

A year of Contradictions: Great Bear Rainforest Agreement Report Card 2003

07 April 2003

the second annual Great Bear Rainforest Report Card gives the BC government dismal grades on most aspects of its commitment to uphold the precedent-setting April 2001 agreement. The groups had little choice but to award dismal grades on protection, planning and ecological management, First Nations' rights and forest policy. While the government fared slightly better this year in the areas of science and managing economic change, the overall trend is still disappointing.

Forest Views: a newsletter for customers and investors of Canadian logging companies, Fall 2001/02

01 December 2001

In this Issue: New BC Liberals and the Great Bear Rainforest, The Ancient Forest Summit, Forest Stewardship Council Eco-Certification and Canadian Book Publishers.

A case stude of the Great Bear Rainforest: best practice to implement the convention on biological diversity in ancient forests

01 February 2001

This case study describes the process of how an area of almost 1.6 million hectares of temperate ancient forest in the West Coast of Canada has been saved from clearcutting and destruction.

Protecting Canada’s Great Bear rainforest

01 January 2001

The Chain of Destruction: from the Great Bear Rainforest to the United States market

01 April 1999

The US remains the largest single consumer of forest products worldwide, consuming approximately 9.5 billion board feet of lumber alone per year — enough wood to make a board one foot wide by one inch thick that would wrap around the world more than seven and a half times. If the Earth's last ancient forests are to be saved, US companies must live up to their responsibility. It is now time for corporate consumers in the US to join this trend and stop buying timber from ancient forests before these forests disappear forever. As the world's largest consumer of forest products, the US has the potential to have the most impact in choosing to protect the planet's remaining ancient forests. If all the members of the US marketplace choose to seek non-wood and recycled sources where appropriate and buy from well-managed secondary forests instead of from sources that destroy ancient forests, there will be no incentive to continue destructive logging practices.

Interfor and logging in the Johnston creek watershed of the Great Bear rainforest

01 January 1998

Western Forest Products and Logging in the Ingram-Mooto Watersheds of the Great Bear Rainforest

01 January 1998