Media Releases

Stage set for next steps

Environmental groups welcome province’s move to complete legislation of protected areas in the Great Bear Rainforest

High Risk Areas in the Great Bear Rainforest Require Action: One Year Left to Go

March 31, 2008 Vancouver BC – There is only one year left to fulfil the promise to protect the Great Bear Rainforest.

Milestone agreement bears fruit

February 22, 2008 Forest Industry and Environmentalists Create Change On-the-Ground

Great Bear Rainforest Backgrounder

 

New Forestry Laws

Vancouver BC - We congratulate the Province and First Nations for establishing legal regulations that take us one step closer to conserving some of the world's last ancient coastal temperate rainforest

Haida Gwaii

Vancouver, B.C.—Environmental groups ForestEthics, Greenpeace and Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter today welcomed the announcement of a new land use plan for Haida Gwaii.

Time Ticking Down for Great Bear Rainforest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE If Governments and Logging Industry don’t keep pace, the world will know

Award

Environmental groups presented with the WWF Gift to the Earth Award

Groundbreaking Great Bear Rainforest Agreement

Environmental groups welcomed the federal government's announcement that it will add $30M to complete a $120M groundbreaking conservation management & economic development initiative

Government, Industry Must Pick up the Pace

Environmental groups working on the conservation plan are cautiously optimistic about implementation. But the pace of change must pick up if government is to meet its goal of full implementation by March 2009.

Great Bear Rainforest Agreements Stalled

When Will Real Change Hit the Ground?

ForestEthics, Greenpeace and Sierra Club of Canada, BC Chapter

SUPPORT NEW CONSERVANCY DESIGNATION WITH CAUTION: MUST SAFEGUARD BIODIVERSITY OVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NEW PROTECTED AREAS OF THE GREAT BEAR RAINFOREST

Environmental groups call for provincial briefing and consultation of environmental community on new conservancy designation

 

Le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique s’engage à protéger 2 millions d’hectares dans la Forêt du Grand Ours

 

BC Commits to Legislate Protection of 2 Million Hectares of Great Bear Rainforest

 

Premier Campbell fails to meet commitment

 

Hundreds Protest Canada’s Forest Destruction At Global Forest Summit

 

Government Inaction Threatens Great Bear Rainforest Agreement

Today, ForestEthics, Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network and Sierra Club of Canada’s BC Chapter released their annual report card on the Great Bear Rainforest.

Greenpeace informs international customers about clearcutting practices in Canada.

 

One year after Great Bear Agreement, the fate of British Columbia's ancient rainforests is still uncertain