logging

Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition by 2030, global report finds

The finding that logging is a high-emitting sector runs counter to longstanding claims by both industry and governments that logging in Canada is “sustainable” and a low-carbon climate solution.

British Columbia's forests watchdog says a complaint about "excessive" logging has led to a call for the province to improve how it manages watersheds.

Experts express concern that salvage logging has no ecological benefit, contradicts B.C.’s promise to prioritize ecosystem health over timber, and the process should be reconsidered. 

All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.

Old-growth forests that were environmental and Indigenous rights battlegrounds over clearcut logging in the 1980s and 1990s during British Columbia's "war in the woods" are set to receive permanent protections in a land and forest management agreement.

A groundbreaking, global survey of more than 700 reporters and editors from 102 countries shows that nearly 40 per cent have faced threats for their work, while more than one in ten have been confronted with physical violence.

Doug Donaldson says the place to start should be a dedicated provincial wildfire strategy that lays out responsibilities for each government ministry, while supporting the participation of local communities, civil society and the forest industry.

The province is in a biodiversity crisis with over 1,800 at-risk species.

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.

Quadra Island's Copper Bluffs residents are angry Mosaic Forest Management is logging sensitive areas in nearby watersheds — a move they believe puts the community at greater risk from drought and wildfire.

A report from the B.C. branch of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says a leaked map suggests the province has approved a pause for logging in less than half of the old-growth forests identified as being at risk of permanent biodiversity loss.

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

A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia has been tapped to study the ecological impacts of glyphosate-based pesticides on forests.

Quebec has just 477 square kilometres of recognized old-growth. Experts want more awareness and management of these centuries-old forests before it's too late.