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Canada’s boreal forests badly damaged by logging
A study finds that logging has inflicted severe damage to the vast boreal forests in Ontario and Quebec, two of the country’s main commercial logging regions.
A First Nation’s aggressive logging has some members ‘heartbroken’
The McLeod Lake Indian Band clearcut almost all its northern BC treaty lands, leaving lots of stumps and questions. A special report.
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Roger Worthington: I pledged $1 million to plant new trees. I wish I could invest the money in saving old ones.
A recent study said preserving existing forests was more important than planting new ones in the limited time we have to slow global warming.
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Duck Mountain Provincial Park: Manitoba’s only logged park
Decades after the province vowed to phase out logging in Manitoba’s provincial parks, a recent audit finds Duck Mountain Provincial Park’s old forests are still being ravaged — and oversight is nowhere to be found.
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Core habitat for spotted owl removed from maps: internal docs
Federal scientists mapped core critical habitat for the endangered spotted owl. Almost half of it, including old-growth, disappeared during negotiations with the B.C. government, internal documents reveal.
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Guilbeault recommends emergency order to save Canada’s last spotted owls
If approved, it will be the third time in the 20-year history of the federal Species at Risk Act that an emergency order has been issued.
Some BC old-growth review findings blocked by forestry execs
‘Is there any way not to use it?’ Emails obtained via FOI show the province wanted to keep a lid on pre-forestry old-growth estimates.
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