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Scientist David Suzuki writes that the Forest Products Association of Canada appears to have "an ulterior motive" in recognizing climate change is a serious threat to forests and habitat, and vowing the sector is doing its part to fight climate change through work in forests, mills and through the products that it makes.

Forestry scientists have compiled evidence showing how corporations, think tanks and industry lobbyists have "seeded doubt about the need for boreal caribou habitat conservation.”

Did you know that the dress you’re wearing, or the jacket you’re rocking, or the new polo you’re sporting might be destroying orangutan habitats in Indonesia? In this National Observer video below, Michael Ruffolo takes the shirt off rayon.

The Forest Products Association of Canada says it’s expecting U.S. countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian newsprint exports next month, a move it says could end up “worse than softwood” for the industry.

Concerns over water and wildlife are heating up as a B.C. company gets ready to log part of the Highwood river valley in Kananaskis Country this winter.

News this week that there are no more than 15 caribou left in a herd near Val d’Or, Que. is giving new urgency to the fight to protect a neighbouring herd in the Broadback River valley.

Resolute has strongly denied any wrongdoing and some northern Ontario communities, which stand to lose jobs and industry, have denounced Greenpeace’s tactics.

Stakeholders, First Nations, and politicians have laid down their arms for good after 20 years of negotiation.

Environmental groups are demanding that both Quebec and Ontario's governments maintain strong conservation, wildlife protection, and community engagement practices for loggers in the boreal forests.