{"id":3007,"date":"2018-06-27T13:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/uncategorized\/3007\/reaction-couillard-fait-la-sourde-oreille-aux-reels-besoins-du-marche-des-produits-forestiers-dit-greenpeace\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:21:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:21:33","slug":"reaction-couillard-fait-la-sourde-oreille-aux-reels-besoins-du-marche-des-produits-forestiers-dit-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/3007\/reaction-couillard-fait-la-sourde-oreille-aux-reels-besoins-du-marche-des-produits-forestiers-dit-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT – Canada needs to listen to market demands and protect caribou, says Greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 27 2018 (Montreal) – <\/b>In response to an <\/span>open-letter from seventeen US companies<\/span><\/a> using pulp and paper products from Canada’s Boreal forest and urging federal and provincial governments in Canada to protect critical Boreal caribou habitat from degradation, Olivier Kolmel, Forest campaigner for Greenpeace Canada, said:<\/span><\/p>\n

“These companies are showing a commendable effort to ensure that their products are responsibly sourced from Canada\u2019s Boreal forest, respect Indigenous Rights and do not harm woodland caribou, which continue to decline. This plea comes at a critical moment when provincial governments such as Quebec and Ontario appear to be backtracking on caribou protection. If the hope is to preserve forestry jobs in the long-term, then our governments must ensure that effective conservation measures are put in place. Dismissing science or the needs of forest product customers won\u2019t allow solutions to the critical challenges facing our forests, such as biodiversity loss and the effects of climate change.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The seventeen companies that signed the letter to government leaders, which include Gap Inc., Hallmark, Seventh Generation, North Face and Clif Bar & Company, reiterate the key demands of another letter sent last October by eight corporations. These corporations include Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, H&M, Amy’s Kitchen, Ben & Jerry’s, Greystone Books, Rose International, and Liturgy Training Publications, and alone have a <\/span><\/i>collective market cap value of nearly $600 billion.<\/span><\/i> A copy of this letter is posted <\/span><\/i>here<\/span><\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

-30-<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information:<\/b><\/p>\n

Marie Moucarry, Communications officer, Greenpeace Canada, 438-993-6127, <\/span>marie.moucarry@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le 27 juin 2018 (Montr\u00e9al) – En r\u00e9action \u00e0 la lettre de dix-sept entreprises am\u00e9ricaines, qui utilisent des produits de p\u00e2tes et papiers de la for\u00eat bor\u00e9ale du Canada et…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-forests","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71131,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/71131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}