COURT RULES FOR HUPACASATH AGAINST BRASCAN AND BC GOVERNM...

Many people are privileged enough to be able to celebrate this season by giving and receiving gifts. In the past year Gordon Campbell's government has been giving gifts to giant logging and real-estate companies Weyerhaeuser and Brascan.

January 4, 2006 [B.C.]

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Aboriginal forestry deals stacking up

The B.C. government is nearing its 100th forestry agreement with aboriginal communities, after signing a flurry of new deals that hand over millions of dollars in timber rights.

January 1, 2006 [B.C.]

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Does Logging Impact Biodiversity?

By Dr. Patrick Moore [ Greenwash Alert ]

January 1, 2006 [B.C.]

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Logging frenzy destroys pine-beetle study area

Logging of pine beetle infested forests in the B.C. Interior is so rampant that one researcher had part of her study area mysteriously wiped out -- and still doesn't know who did it.

December 31, 2005 [B.C.]

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Year of contrasts draws to a close for forest industry

The boom in British Columbia's lumber trade with the United States kept rolling along during 2005, at least in terms of volume if not in dollars, with challenges ranging from the rise of the Canadian currency, escalating energy costs and continued softwood lumber duties putting the squeeze on industry profitability.

December 29, 2005 [B.C.]

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International Paper, The Conservation Fund and State of N...

December 29, 2005 [U.S.]

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Storing Carbon to Combat Global Warming May Cause Other E...

Growing tree plantations to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to mitigate global warming -- so called carbon sequestration -- could trigger environmental changes that outweigh some of the benefits, a multi-institutional team led by Duke University suggested in a new report. Those effects include water and nutrient depletion and increased soil salinity and acidity, said the researchers.

December 22, 2005 [U.S.]

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Re: Leslie Scriveners Marmot article

Leslie Scrivener's article, "The marmot interview" fails to explore the reasons for the virtual extinction of Canada's most endangered mammal, namely the most voracious, unregulated private land clearcutting anywhere in Canada.

December 21, 2005 [B.C.]

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North American Boreal Productivity Trends: 1982-2003

December 21, 2005 [Canada]

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Catalogs Clogging Santa's Sack, Advocacy Group Says

He's making a list and checking it twice, but who knew Santa's naughty and nice list would be based on good forest conservation practices?

December 20, 2005 [U.S.]

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Paper War

ENVIRONMENTALISTS TAKE ON VICTORIA'S SECRET FOR MAILING MORE THAN 1 MILLION CATALOGS A DAY By JEREMY CAPLAN

December 19, 2005 [U.S.]

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Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon low...

December 19, 2005 [International]

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Unlikely Boreal Conservation Alliance gaining momentum - ...

December 19, 2005 [Canada]

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Poll Confirms: Pine Beetle is Cariboo's Biggest Issue

December 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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Western Forest Products Announces Closure of Squamish Pul...

December 15, 2005 [B.C.]

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Three arrested at protest over old-growth logging

Three protesters were arrested — one of whom was pepper-sprayed — during a demonstration in support of the preservation of old-growth trees at Nanning Grove near Scotia, Oregon.

December 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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Greenpeace Warns WTO Threatening Last Ancient Forests

Environment activist Greenpeace warned the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Friday that further opening of forestry trade threatens the remaining ancient forests, particularly in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Brazil.

December 12, 2005 [International]

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Friends of Slain US Nun Vow to Press Brazil Fight

Stang's supporters said they were now ready to go after ranchers accused of offering the two men 50,000 reais ($22,000) to kill the activist, who blocked their advance on valuable, hard-wood rich rain forest.

December 12, 2005 [B.C.]

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Injunctions an injustice

A group called Women in the Woods, led by 77-year-old B.C. activist Betty Krawczyk, gathered outside B.C. Supreme Courts in Vancouver yesterday to protest court injunctions.

December 9, 2005 [B.C.]

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Logging active despite FPB report

If logging isn't stopped on Southeast Vancouver Island in order to support Forest Practices Board recommendations to protect red-listed plant species, one environmental group will be stepping up their protest.

December 9, 2005 [B.C.]

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Spotted Owl Crisis Prompts First Legal Test of Canada's S...

Only 23 spotted owls remain in British Columbia, and Tuesday environmental groups filed the first legal action of its kind under Canada's Species at Risk Act, seeking federal government intervention to protect the critically endangered bird. Sierra Legal Defence Fund is representing the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, David Suzuki Foundation, ForestEthics and Environmental Defence in the application for judicial review before the Federal Court of Canada.

December 8, 2005 [B.C.]

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Researchers discover trees in Amazon much older than assu...

Older trees may have less capacity for taking in carbon dioxide

December 8, 2005 [International]

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Fish study counters the Grove parking lot plans

Two years of volunteer time has turned up six reasons why a parking lot should not be built in Cathedral Grove, says independent fisheries biologist Dave Clough.

December 6, 2005 [B.C.]

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Environmentalists go to court in bid to protect B.C.'s sp...

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the extinction of the spotted owl in British Columbia, now estimated at six remaining breeding pairs.

December 6, 2005 [B.C.]

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Study: Temperate Forests Could Worsen Global Warming

December 5, 2005 [International]

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What's a Forest Worth? More Than You Might Think.

December 5, 2005 [Canada]

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Forests Urged as New Front in Global Warming Fight

Forest preservation should be the new front in the fight against global warming with Third World nations earning cash for protecting trees, tropical countries told U.N. climate conference.

December 2, 2005 [Canada]

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Scholarship Opportunities for the 2006 ForestLeadership C...

December 2, 2005 [B.C.]

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Minister Penner Confuses Logging of Spotted Owl Habitat w...

November 30, 2005 [B.C.]

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Carbon in Canada's boreal forest worth $3.7 trillion

Ecosystem services estimated at $93 billion per year

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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Liberal government announces $1.5B aid to forest industry...

"Canada's actions illustrate what the United States has been saying all along: the Canadian industry is the beneficiary of subsidies that create an un-level playing field to the detriment of the U.S. industry."

November 25, 2005 [Canada]

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Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) eyes logging partn...

If all goes according to plan, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) could be in the logging business by early 2007.

November 25, 2005 [B.C.]

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Study Shows Nanoparticles Could Damage Plant Life

A nanoparticle commonly used in industry could have a damaging effect on plant life, according to a report by an environmental scientist at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

November 24, 2005 [U.S.]

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Softwood Lumber Ruling in Canada's Favor No Break for For...

Softwood lumber trade with the United States has long driven environmentally unsustainable logging in Canada’s primary and old growth forests.

November 24, 2005 [Canada]

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Accreditation of landmark B.C. standards for forest manag...

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Minister Emerson to Unveil Forest Industry Strategy

November 23, 2005 [Canada]

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It's a war of the woods in B.C.

There is peace in the Great Bear Rainforest, but it is a tentative peace

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Going for Gold: Final Approval of Forest Stewardship Coun...

Today, a significant opportunity was provided to BC timber companies who seek international 'green' approval for their logging practices. The world’s preeminent forest certification system, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), today announced that their new forest management standards for BC are approved and ready for implementation. The FSC-BC Standards are the mark to meet for timber companies wanting to take advantage of the commitment by Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Committee to green building.

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Ask Premier Campbell to Protect the Great Bear Rainforest

The next step in making this solution a reality is approval by the B.C. government.

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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B.C.'s Coastal Temperate Rainforest: The Vision Going Fo...

Ecosystem-based Management is a paradigm shift. It amounts to re-engineering an entire regional economy, tuning it to measurable indicators of ecological health and human well being.

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Goldman Sachs spells out eco-friendly policy

The big investment banking firm just announced a policy that details how its 24,000 employees - be they bankers, analysts or purchasing agents - should promote activities that protect forests and guard against climate change.

November 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Stand Tall!

November 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Europeans Flush 5.5 Million Tons of Forest Fiber a Year

The European tissue business is worth around 8.5 billion euros annually and accounts for 26 percent of global tissue consumption.

November 21, 2005 [International]

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World Wildlife Fund: Pulp Mill Devastates Swans' Sanctuar...

A recently opened pulp mill in Chile has devastated one of South America's most biologically outstanding wetlands, decimating its famed population of black-necked swans, along with most other bird life.

November 21, 2005 [International]

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Killing Wolf

The Great Bear Rainforest agreement will do little, if anything, to protect critical wolf habitat and will institutionalize the sport hunting of wolves across the entirety of the landscape.

November 20, 2005 [Northwest Coast/Haida Gwaii]

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Penner peeks into Port Alberni Meeting

Minister lurks in on his own public meeting

November 19, 2005 [B.C.]

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BC Parks sticking with plans for Grove

BC Parks presented their 11 options for a parking lot in Cathedral Grove to a mixed crowd in Port Alberni this week, at the first of two public meetings about the issue.

November 18, 2005 [B.C.]

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Logging Lackies vs. Canada's Most Endangered Species

Forest-Flipping Frenzy Dooms Marmot

November 17, 2005 [B.C.]

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Rapid Warming Caused Vegetation Changes

Fossil leaves buried 55 million years ago show, for the first time, that rapid warming not only changed animal communities, but plant communities as well; and that the ancient warm spell may be representative of global warming's effects in Earth's future, according to an international team of researchers.

November 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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An Open Letter to the National Audubon Society: Please St...

The National Audubon is a multi-million dollar environmental powerhouse with tens of thousands of members. A recent survey suggests that nearly 50 million Americans bird watch! Yet, go to the American Forest Foundation donor list (an organization loaded with multinational timber corporations who thrive on cutting bird habitat) and you find a most unusual "donor": the National Audubon Society.

November 14, 2005 [U.S.]

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