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Who's behind Canada's new pulp-and-paper powerhouse, and where's the money coming from?
Paper Excellence bills itself as a proud player rejuvenating a troubled industry in an environmentally responsible way, but leaked emails and insider accounts reveal a company which may not be what it seems.
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What’s next for old-growth forests in B.C.?
More than two years after the province promised to implement recommendations set out in the old-growth strategic review, big trees continue to fall. Review author Garry Merkel says changing B.C.'s forestry culture isn't easy.
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Investigation faults Liberian agency protecting rainforest
An independent investigation into logging in the Liberian rainforest found illegal operations “on a significant scale," with multiple missteps or breaches of law by the government agency charged with protecting those forests, according to a copy of the report obtained by The Associated Press.
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‘Once you've clear cut it, that's it’
Kwakiutl Hereditary Chiefs issued a cease-and-desist order on old-growth logging in their territory. It continued anyway.
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Running on empty: The BC forestry crash
The closure of a Prince George pulp mill is yet another warning we’re running out of trees.
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Burning Up: The Controversial biofuel threatening BC’s last inland rainforests
The wood-pellet industry is booming. Will it push old-growth ecosystems to the brink?
Unnatural disasters plague Canada's forests, leaving at least half of our tree species at risk of disappearing
With the Earth now warming 50 times faster than at the dawn of the Holocene, the forest isn’t marching north; it’s imploding from within, pummelled by drought, fire, pests and disease, whose impacts are all exacerbated by a logging industry that levels nearly 750,000 hectares of timber per year.
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