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End American Clearcutting in Ontario

Through massive deforestation, Weyerhaeuser Company, the largest lumber company in the United States, is turning Canadian forests into a nightmare.

Demand Weyerhaeuser halt further destruction of the Grassy Narrows First Nation's forests>> http://go.care2.com/e/kUU/lk/Q3LR

Weyerhaeuser, a $19 billion company, is a top logger and distributor of endangered forest products from North America, South America, Australia, and the Pacific Rim. This includes over 2,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers north of Kenora, Ontario.

These lands have sustained the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation for thousands of years. The old-growth habitat provided by these areas also support animal species like the pine martin and woodland caribou critical to the ecological integrity of the area.

Despite decades of negotiations, environmental appeals, protests, and what has become the longest running road blockade in Canadian history, industrial loggers like Weyerhaeuser continue to use wood systematically extracted from ecologically sensitive old growth areas and destroy the traditional way of life of the Grassy Narrows indigenous community who have lived on the land since pre-Columbian times.

Demand the immediate termination of Weyerhaeuser's destructive logging without consent from the community>> http://go.care2.com/e/kUU/lk/Q3LR

posted by Annamarie at 4:56 PM