The Conservation Alliance

Through their Boreal Forest Campaign, ForestEthics is working with their environmental allies – and the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and its 23 member companies – to protect Canada’s Boreal Forest, and develop a framework for ecosystem-based management (EBM), a land-use approach that will protect endangered caribou habitat and other ecological values, while supporting a viable logging industry and providing for jobs and economic well-being. The largest conservation initiative in history, the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA), covers more than 76 million hectares (187.8 million acres), and was a direct result of ForestEthics’ campaigns focused on persuading some of the world’s largest buyers of Boreal products to demand more environmentally responsible practices from their suppliers. This year, soon after the second anniversary of the Agreement, the forest company and conservation group signatories to the CBFA were able to announce a breakthrough plan for Ontario’s Northeast. The announced action plan... Read More