Taking Action for the Boreal Forest; A Look Back

For more than seven years, the Greenpeace forest campaign has sought to stop the on-going destruction of Canada's Boreal forest and woodland caribou habitat. On top of directly engaging destructive forest companies with boycotts and actions, Greenpeace published several reports detailing destructive on-the-ground forest practices, and their impacts, the link between climate change and Boreal Forest destruction and the connections between global forest products, logging companies, and customers. Today, Greenpeace along with the companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and 8 other leading environmental organizations, unveils an unprecedented accord - the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement covering more than 72 million hectares of public forests, an area twice the size of Germany, licensed to FPAC member companies across Canada. The agreement when fully implemented will result in the large-scale conservation of Canadas vast Boreal forest, protection of threatened woodland caribou and a competitive market edge for participating companies.

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• Boreal Forest
• Canada
• Deforestation
• Environment
• Greenpeace
• Conservation
• Wildlife
• Caribou
• logging
• forestry

[TheCtrlFrk]

I've only been following this campaign for a year now but I can't stress my gratitude to all the activists and campaign managers who have brought us this far. This has to be by far, the most important environmental issue our planet will ever face. It is my duty as a Canadian to protect and guard our share of the Boreal forests. Please help out with a simple preset form letter on GreenPeace's website under Boreal Campaigns and help protect Earth's shrinking lungs. I beg you!

[mountainvoyager]

Brilliant work...Well done everyone.

[jdebord11]

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[Fiiille]

I love the work you do, keep it up! I would love to do things like this, but I don't know where to turn?