Environmentalists commend City of Victoria for standing against contentious cutblocks in a nearby old-growth area. Continue reading City of Victoria passes motion opposing logging in the Walbran Valley
The controversial practice of raw log exports from BC has reached all-time record levels in the last few years. Continue reading Raw log exports skyrocket in British Columbia
Vancouver – The Wilderness Committee has reacted to news that on April 1 a permit was issued by the BC government to the First Nation owned logging company Iisaak Forest Resources Ltd to build a logging road into a pristine valley in Clayoquot Sound. Continue reading Wilderness Committee decries new logging road permit issued in BC’s Clayoquot Sound
Winnipeg – The Manitoba government has granted the logging corporation Tolko approval to log the habitat of endangered woodland caribou in northwestern Manitoba. Continue reading Caribou habitat still in decline in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Winnipeg – The Manitoba government has granted the logging corporation Tolko approval to log the habitat of endangered woodland caribou in northwestern Manitoba. Continue reading Caribou habitat still in decline in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Forest Stewardship Council certification for nearly one million hectares of forest compliments the conservation plan in the Great Bear Rainforest; … Continue reading Group of Companies Receive International Eco-certification in the Great Bear Rainforest
After delivering to the ministry a load of two-by-fours manufactured by AbitibiBowater, Canada’s largest and most destructive logging company, a dozen Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the building doors, at 880 Chemin Sainte-Foy in Quebec City. They also hung a banner reading: “Boreal Forest: The Destruction Starts Here”. Continue reading Greenpeace blockades a Quebec ministry to protest forestry practices
Woodland caribou represent Canada’s natural legacy, but their population is in steady decline due to expanding industrial development in the boreal forest.
The war in the woods that seemed to simmer down in Clayoquot last week may have found a new flash … Continue reading New War in Woods? Battle Front Shifts
Furious environmental groups threaten resumption of B.C’s ‘war of the woods’ Continue reading Clayoquot opened to logging
VANCOUVER — After 10 years of logging-road blockades, marketplace boycotts and meetings that were so fractious people couldn’t even agree … Continue reading Years of tension end with ‘unique’ B.C. rain forest deal
