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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.
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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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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.

Core spotted owl habitat removed from BC maps

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.

Canada’s last spotted owls

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.

BC old-growth review findings blocked

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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