Sustainable Forestry
Government Role (all levels),trade,protection,crownlands
Main tpic
Role of NGOs in making forests sustainable
David Suzuki foundation
conducts research
found that most of logging in BC's coastal forests is in old growth forests and most is clearcutting
Greenpeace
Its Kleercut campaign against company tissue maker Kimberly Clark was laucned in Nov. 2004 and involved Activist protests, scientific reports and media.
It pressured the BC government to keep its promise to protect the Great Bear rainforest bu putting up billboards and publishing fullpage ads in newspapers
It wanted people to know that a substantial amount of the pulp Kimberly Clark uses to make its kleenex products comes from Canada's Boreal Forest.
Nature Conservancy of Canada
It helped conserve more than 2 million acres of ecologicalllly suignificant land across Canada
It recently protected 462 acres of land in the Riding Mountain area of Canada
The NCC is an NGO that buys,manages and restores natural areas. It gets land by buying it with donated money or by people donating land and then it protects the land,
Canopy
It convinced J.K Rowling and Raincoast Books to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on 100% recycled paper making Harry Potter the greenest book in history.
Its green magazine campaign led to 34 Canadian magazines developing ecopaper policies and switching to environmental paper.
Because of canopy th e Globe and mail was the first North American newspaper to develop an Ancient Forest Friendly paper policy
In order to be Ancient Forest Friendly 100% of the paper fiblre must hace ecological attributes and the paper must be manufactured with a high percentage of recyled material.
Canopy enourages use of paper that has the Ancient Forest Friendly logo
They also have to maintain the ecological functions and integrity of the forests.
FSC Canada
To put the FSC label on their products forest product companies have to follow sustained yield forest management principles.
A certifying group that lets you know you are buying products from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources.
environmental hazards, fire & pest management
Pest Management
Forest fires
Acid Precipitation
Deforestation/Reforestation
Protecting Old Growth Forests
Where they are in Canada
Why they are important
How Canada is protecting them
Clearcut v.s. patch & Selective cutting
Which one is better or worse
What they are used for
What is the difference between the two
Research & Development
Genetics
Pictures
Example of genetics
What they are
Silviculture
Selective Cutting
Clear cutting
What it is
