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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…
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Return to Sonora: TimberWest in the Great Bear Rainforest
It was exactly 2 years ago today that I published a blog on Sonora Island – the southernmost end of the Great Bear Rainforest, within the traditional territories of Kwakwaka’wakw and Coast…
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Resolute Forest Products “blocking” mill sale
Ontario NDP leader Andra Horwath is accusing Resolute Forest Products of “blocking” the sale of its shuttered Fort Frances mill to Wisconsin-based Expera Specialty Solutions. Prior to its final closure this year,…
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Building a Green Economy in the Boreal Forest
“Building a Green Economy in the Boreal Forest,” lays out a vision for the development of the Boreal Forest to build new, stable, viable economies that communities can count on in the long term, while preserving the tremendous ecological values contained in the Boreal Forest.
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Greenpeace’s Vision for a New Conservation Based Forest Economy in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Greenpeace's Vision for a New Conservation Based Forest Economy in Canada's Boreal Forest is an innovative look at how forest communities, industry and environmental groups can work together to protect our fragile forests.
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Turning Up the Heat: Global Warming and the Degradation of Canada’s Boreal Forest
Canada’s Boreal Forest is dense with life. Richly populated with plants, birds, animals, and trees; home to hundreds of communities; and a wellspring of fresh water and oxygen, the Boreal has long been recognized as a critically important ecosystem.