Landmark Deal With Loggers Protects 9Mil Acres Of Canadian Rainforest
Take all of Belgium. Now fill it with wolves, eagles, bears and old growth trees - and then stretch it along an area more than half of the coast of...
Twenty years ago, the Great Bear Rainforest was a marketing term used by environmental activists to refer to a massive slice of the British Columbian coast destined for the lumber mill. But on Monday, loggers, conservationists, and B.C. Premier Christy Clark gathered in Vancouver to happily announce that the Great Bear Rainforest was now one of the largest swaths of protected coastal forest in the Northern Hemisphere. The National Post presents five things to know about this "historic" agreement.
It's really, really, really big.
Take all of Belgium (three million hectares). Now fill it with wolves, eagles, bears and old growth trees - and then stretch it along an area representing more than half of the coast of mainland B.C. That is the piece of B.C. now protected forever from logging - a massive piece of coastal forest starting roughly 200 kilometers north of Vancouver and running all the way to the Alaskan border. Taken together with other protected areas in Alaska and Haida Gwaii, campaigners are calling the Great Bear Rainforest the keystone of the world's largest intact temperate rain forest.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/landmark-deal-loggers-greens-protects-9-mil-acres-canadian-rain-forest/
Twenty years ago, the Great Bear Rainforest was a marketing term used by environmental activists to refer to a massive slice of the British Columbian coast destined for the lumber mill. But on Monday, loggers, conservationists, and B.C. Premier Christy Clark gathered in Vancouver to happily announce that the Great Bear Rainforest was now one of the largest swaths of protected coastal forest in the Northern Hemisphere. The National Post presents five things to know about this "historic" agreement.
It's really, really, really big.
Take all of Belgium (three million hectares). Now fill it with wolves, eagles, bears and old growth trees - and then stretch it along an area representing more than half of the coast of mainland B.C. That is the piece of B.C. now protected forever from logging - a massive piece of coastal forest starting roughly 200 kilometers north of Vancouver and running all the way to the Alaskan border. Taken together with other protected areas in Alaska and Haida Gwaii, campaigners are calling the Great Bear Rainforest the keystone of the world's largest intact temperate rain forest.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/landmark-deal-loggers-greens-protects-9-mil-acres-canadian-rain-forest/