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Great Bear Rainforest Campaign
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The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest expanse of coastal temperate rainforest left in the world. Grizzly bears roam freely through ancient stands of spruce and cedar, five species of Pacific salmon spawn in crystal rivers, and bald eagles nest in towering trees. Today, a handful of multinational logging corporations are cutting down these ancient forests for short-term profit. |
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Background Information
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Overview |
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Great Bear Rainforest is the largest area of contiguous temperate rainforest left in the world.
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Ecology & People |
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Moss-laden ancient forests reach nearly a hundred metres tall and hundreds of years back in time.
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Threats |
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A handful of multinational corporations threaten the Great Bear Rainforest with industrial logging.
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Current Status |
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72% of logging is done by clearcutting, and 85% of salmon-bearing streams are logged to their banks.
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Great Bear Rainforest News & Archives
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Great Bear Rainforest still under threat (July 2004) |
Over three years have passed since the original Great Bear Rainforest Agreement was announced.
What is the status of the Great Bear Rainforest? Will enough be protected? Are the right areas
being protected? What will logging look like in the unprotected areas?
FAN released a report in July 2004 to answer these and other important questions.
While acknowledging that some progress has been made,
the report critically examines the status of the Great Bear Rainforest
and outlines the ongoing and emerging threats to the region. For example,
in addition to industrial logging, eighty percent of the region will still be open to mining.
Click here to download the report (PDF) |
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New road blasted into Spirit Bear habitat (July 2003) |
The following pictures (click below) show a new road being blasted into Spirit bear habitat on Princess Royal Island. A white variant of the black bear, only 100 Spirit bears may exist. The Great Bear Rainforest is the only place on earth they can be found. Shy, elusive, these ghosts of the rainforest are mostly found on Princess Royal Island, and in the unprotected valleys of the Aaltenhash and Green Rivers and on Gribbel Island, which is also currently being logged.
Interfor, Western Forest Products, and Triumph Timber all have licenses to log in Spirit bear habitat. Currently 72% of logging in the Great Bear Rainforest is done by clearcutting, and 85% of salmon streams are logged to their banks: both the habitat and the main food source of the Spirit bear are under attack. Time is running out for the survival of the rare Spirit bear.
Click here to see the pictures |
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FAN Launches Campaign in China (April 2003) |
FAN has launched a campaign in China targeting BC forest products which originate from ancient forest destruction. China is the fastest growing market for lumber clearcut from BC's ancient forests, including the Great Bear Rainforest. The BC government and logging industry are doing everything they can to try to sell their ancient forest destruction to China, including a $12 million public relations campaign. On April 17, FAN hosted a press conference in Beijing and released a report in Chinese.
Click here to download the 12-page report (Chinese only, 1.3MB, PDF)
Click here to view the table of contents in English
Click here to visit FAN China's website (in Chinese) |
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Update on logging in the Great Bear Rainforest (August 2002) |
In August, 2002, FAN volunteers surveyed new logging sites, only to find a wake of destruction from recent 2002 clearcutting. The following single-page factsheets document our findings:
Click here to download "New Clearcutting in the Great Bear Rainforest" (PDF)
Click here to download to download "Violations of the agreement" (PDF)
Click here to download "Great Bear Rainforest: Clearcut Photo Gallery" (PDF) |
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Update on logging in the Great Bear Rainforest (April 2002) |
FAN exposes the Great Bear Rainforest betrayal. One year after the BC Government endoresed the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement on April 4th, 2001, not a single area had been protected. Meanwhile, status-quo industrial logging continues thoughout much of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Click here to download the report (PDF) |
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2004 Forest Action Network
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