The parties to Resolute Forest Products, Inc. et al. v. Greenpeace International et al. and Resolute Forest Products, Inc. et al. v. Greenpeace Canada et al. have announced the conclusion of these long-running litigations. Please see the joint statement.
Today, Greenpeace draws the line in the sand with the release of the Boreal Alarm, a report identifying five endangered Boreal forest areas that require immediate conservation planning and protection. Greenpeace is calling for the immediate suspension of logging in these forests of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba and is advising wood products customers to check their supply chain to ensure they are not sourcing from these forests.
These Endangered Forest Areas are critical for maintaining healthy woodland caribou and biodiversity and are at immediate risk of destruction, says Catharine Grant, Greenpeace Canada forest campaigner. Without an effective vehicle for Boreal forest protection, these areas are open to logging with little or no protection yet are of significant social and cultural value.
To accompany the report,Greenpeace has upgraded and updated its Boreal webpage with a new section allowing you to learn more about each of the Endangered Forests and actions you can take to help protect them.
Woodland caribou
In the report entitled Boreal Alarm: A wake up call for action in Canadas Endangered Forests, five Endangered Forest Areas are identified as ecologically significant along with the logging and management companies and mills operating within them.Resolute Forest Products, a company recently exposed for logging in critical caribou habitat, is active in three of the five zones, including the Montagnes Blanches and Trout Lake-Caribou Forests.Ask Resolute CEO Richard Garneau to stop logging immediately in endangered forest areas and important caribou habitat.
