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Clearcutting Free Speech
Canada’s boreal forest is one of the last large expanses of undisturbed natural forest in the world. For years, Greenpeace has been speaking up and raising awareness about the controversial and unsustainable forestry practices used by Resolute Forest Products, one of the largest logging companies in North America, in critical areas of this magnificent forest.
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Greenpeace launches worldwide campaign for free speech
Montreal, 16 May, 2017 — Greenpeace has launched a new worldwide campaign for free speech today to stand up to Canadian logging giant Resolute Forest Products’ massive legal attacks on…
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Our vision for sustainable forests includes workers
We are troubled by the recent job losses announced in the forest industry which affect workers and their families. Greenpeace Canada is committed to work with unions and local communities to ensure the logging industry adopts and maintains sustainable practices so they can operate successfully now and for generations to come.
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A World Without Greenpeace? How One Corporation Is Attacking Your Right to Speak for Forests
Your right to speak out is being threatened right now in a dizzying variety of ways, not only by oppressive governments around the world, but also by underhanded corporations who want to suppress speech through expensive lawsuits.
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Appeal Court confirms Resolute’s claims against Greenpeace “scandalous and vexatious”
Toronto/Montreal, March 10, 2017: Resolute Forest Products’ legal attacks on Greenpeace suffered a major setback yesterday when the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that allegations against Greenpeace Canada…
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Resolute responds to Greenpeace campaigns by labelling us a “criminal enterprise”. Other corporations respond by…
Greenpeace and industry leaders announce the ambitious global moratorium on soy from newly deforested Amazon.
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Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest
It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than Belgium. This day is twenty years in the making.
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Celebrating twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest
At long last, today we celebrate the culmination of over twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest. We started with conflict in the mid-1990s: exposing to the…
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Great Bear to the Boreal: 7 Ways to Shorten a Campaign for Forest Protection
We are getting much closer to the end of the long and winding road that has been the Great Bear Rainforest campaign. As I mentioned in a recent blog, along the way to completing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements we have encountered pot holes, forks, stop signs, and late last year, a couple of big…
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Protecting Intact Forests & FSC’s Motion 65: Getting the Facts Straight
The term Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is well recognized in scientific literature and certification standards, and within the supply chain and in the policies of major forest product companies. IFLs…
