Forestry

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A campaign by Canada's largest logging lobby aims to pitch the forest industry as sustainable, despite growing evidence the sector is a net emitter of climate-warming gases. Photo by James Anderson / World Resources Institute

The forestry industry is spending big to hype its green cred. The truth is not that simple

For weeks, slick earthy green and pastel orange ads touting the climate benefits of Canada's logging have flooded millions of Facebook and Instagram feeds. The ads are one plank of a campaign by Canada's largest forestry lobby group — the Forest Products Association of Canada — to fight growing concerns about its impact on climate change and wildfires.

Climate of denial

By Marc Fawcett-Atkinson | News | April 10th 2024

Logging emissions must be on the ledger

Logging is a carbon polluter on the scale of the high-emitting agriculture and building sectors.

Opinion

By Michael Polanyi | Opinion | March 6th 2024

New coastal First Nations deal maps ‘future’ of forestry in B.C.

Four First Nations are hailing a landmark agreement with a logging company that will increase their role in forestry operations on Vancouver Island.

By Rochelle Baker | News, Island Insider | October 24th 2023

Hot spots from the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire burn in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Canadians call out for forest protection but disagree about causes of wildfires

As Canada struggles through its worst fire season in recorded history, a new survey suggests protecting forests remains one issue that unites most Canadians no matter who they are or where they live.

By Bob Weber | News, Politics | August 24th 2023

Biologist fights former department to save Nova Scotia’s mainland moose

A Nova Scotia biologist battled his former provincial colleagues to protect the province's mainland moose from extinction — and he may have succeeded.

By Abel Rangel | News | July 24th 2023

Photo by Jeffrey Beall/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Wood isn’t the climate-friendly material you think it is

A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.

Race Against Climate Change

By Max Graham | News | July 24th 2023

Canada should close the logging gap in its climate plan

When it comes to industrial logging emissions in Canada, policymakers — and the public — are largely in the dark.

Opinion

By Michael Polanyi & Jennifer Skene | Opinion | May 9th 2023

MOVIES: Bios of Michael J. Fox and hockey badman Harold Ballard, plus a big new Marvel

Also two about climate change, an Indigenous woman's quest and an unlikely Carmen

By Volkmar Richter | Reviews, Entertainment | May 4th 2023

B.C. Premier David Eby speaks in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A B.C. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

B.C. signs 'historic' deal with First Nation after treaty rights court battle

A B.C. First Nation and provincial government have signed what's being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | January 19th 2023

Leaked letter puts focus on Canada's forestry trade priorities ahead of COP15

Canada supports the goals of the European Union's forestry trade rules, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says, after a leaked letter recently revealed the country's efforts to water down proposed regulations right before the United Nations' global biodiversity conference kicks off in Montreal.

Negotiating survival

By Natasha Bulowski | News, Politics, Climate Solutions Reporting, Ottawa Insider | December 7th 2022

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