So there’s going to be a fall election in B.C.: has the NDP kept its environmental promises?
The NDP rose to power in 2017 vowing to take action on climate change, old-growth...
Canada’s reputation as a nation of “hewers of wood and drawers of water” is at least half correct, historically. Forestry has always been one of the biggest industries in the country, economically, by reputation and by environmental impact. About 94 per cent of forests in Canada are publicly owned and about 70 per cent of Canada’s Indigenous population lives in forested areas.
Over half of the world’s boreal region is in Canada, which boasts a staggering 270 million hectares of boreal forest.
Increasing privatization of forest lands, however, combined with the threats of climate change, industrial activity, pine beetle infestations and wildfires, has put Canada’s forests at risk.
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The NDP rose to power in 2017 vowing to take action on climate change, old-growth...
Only remnants of this carbon-rich forest in the Maritimes remain after centuries of clear-cutting. More...
As rumours swirl of a snap fall election, the NDP government has announced development deferrals...
Excessive logging in British Columbia interior has ‘increased the frequency, duration and magnitude’ of floods,...
This 1.3 million hectare forest in Quebec has never been logged or known the incursion...
Picture a helicopter flying over a cutblock, releasing a misty cloud from a sprinkler-like contraption...
Journalist and author Philip Lee paddles the Restigouche River to understand how we value nature...
More than 500 soccer fields of massive trees are clearcut in the province every day...
After two years of stockpiling wood waste from logging, the Terrace Community Forest — a...
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