Success Story 2016

Great Bear Rainforest

Great Bear Rainforest Photo: Ian McAllister
PROJECT NAME:
Great Bear Rainforest
GRANTEE:
Pacific Wild Raincoast Conservation Foundation
RESULT:
one oil pipeline halted

We made grants to Pacific Wild and Raincoast Conservation Society to organize opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline, which would have run through the heart of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest. We had previously funded organizations that successfully protected 2.5 million acres of land in this coastal temperate rainforest. In November, the Canadian federal government rejected the Northern Gateway proposal, and vowed to impose an oil tanker ban along BC’s north coast.