Green Gazette - March 2006 - Success in the Great Bear Rainforest
BC Chapter - Success in the Great Bear RainforestBy Lisa Matthaus, Coast Campaign Coordinator
Two million hectares is a pretty big chunk of land. Four Prince Edward Islands. One Switzerland. 5,200 Stanley Parks. Two Yellowstone National Parks. Some 2.5 million Canadian football fields (including end zones).
It’s also the area of temperate rainforest the B.C. government announced on February 7 would be protected from logging in the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Great Bear Rainforest agreement is the culmination of what may be British Columbia’s most significant environmental campaign—a decade-long effort that saw blockades, international markets campaigns, and an unprecedented agreement between as unlikely allies as logging companies and environmentalists. It has now produced a conservation achievement of international significance, a milestone of which we can all be proud.
To receive the entire article email ana@sierraclub.bc.ca, Communications Coordinator, Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter.
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