{"id":9087,"date":"2019-06-03T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:27:42","slug":"new-forestry-standard-a-defining-moment-for-canadian-logging-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/9087\/new-forestry-standard-a-defining-moment-for-canadian-logging-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"New forestry standard a defining moment for Canadian logging industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toronto &#8211; Responding to the announcement today of a new Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard, Shane Moffatt, Head of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature and Food Campaign <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with Greenpeace Canada commented:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the middle of a global wildlife crisis, the announcement of a new FSC standard in Canada offers the logging industry a clear choice: be part of the problem or be part of the solution. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/news\/Media-Release-Global-Assessment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent findings by the world\u2019s scientific experts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that up to a million species of plants, insects and animals face extinction are a major wake up call. This is no time for business as usual. Companies that claim they are committed to operating in harmony with our natural world and respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples can prove it by getting forests they manage FSC certified. Greenpeace Canada\u2019s support for these standards is underpinned by the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples right to free prior and informed consent, protections for threatened wildlife and opportunities for local communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.fsc.org\/en-ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FSC standards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are designed to address the most important issues facing Canada\u2019s forests today, including reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, the woodland caribou crisis and the rights of workers. They were developed over a number of years by a diverse range of Indigenous representatives and stakeholders including Greenpeace Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-30-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For more information, please contact: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mojgan Mohammad, communication officer, Greenpeace Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:mojgan.mohammad@greenpeace.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mojgan.mohammad@greenpeace.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; +1 514 400-3313<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto &#8211; Responding to the announcement today of a new Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard, Shane Moffatt, Head of Nature and Food Campaign with Greenpeace Canada commented: \u201cIn the middle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":9084,"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-9087","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\/9087","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}