Canadian Forest Industry And Environmental Groups Sign World's Largest Conservation Agreement Applying To Area Twice The Size Of Germany

ENN, July 09, 2012

The 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), and nine leading environmental organizations, have endorsed an unprecedented agreement — the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement — that applies to 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC members. The Agreement, when fully implemented, will conserve significant areas of Canada's vast Boreal Forest, protect threatened woodland caribou and provide a competitive market edge for participating companies.

Under the Agreement FPAC members, who manage two-thirds of all certified forest land in Canada, commit to the highest environmental standards of forest management within an area twice the size of Germany. Read more...

For Hudson Bay Polar Bears, The End is Already in Sight

Yale 360, July 08, 2010

The polar bear has long been a symbol of the damage wrought by global warming, but now biologist Andrew Derocher and his colleagues have calculated how long one southerly population can hold out. Their answer? No more than a few decades, as the bears’ decline closely tracks that of the Arctic’s disappearing sea ice. Read nore...

Canada’s Dirty Secret not so Secret Anymore

E-magazine, December 15, 2009

Canada is receiving heavy international scrutiny at COP15 for its mining of tar sands -- a sand and clay mixture containing a small percentage of a type of petroleum called bitumen, which can be converted into conventional oil -- in the province of Alberta. Activists are calling attention not just to the environmental toll of this fossil fuel extraction, but also to its impact on indigenous people in the region.
Last Wednesday, in an event organized by Climate Action Network Canada, about 50 young Canadian activists rallied at the COP15 summit for a moratorium on the tar sands work, both for its environmental and human rights impacts. Read more...

«Εμπάργκο» επιβάλλει η Ευρώπη στα προϊόντα φώκιας

In.gr, 27 Ιουλίου 2009

Την απαγόρευση εισαγωγής προϊόντων που προέρχονται από φώκιες ενέκριναν τη Δευτέρα οι υπουργοί Εξωτερικών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης, επικρίνοντας το «βάρβαρο» κυνήγι τους.
Τα προϊόντα αφορούν γούνες, κρέας και λάδι φώκιας, αλλά από την απαγόρευση εξαιρούνται όσα προέρχονται από παραδοσιακές μεθόδους κυνηγιού, όπως εφαρμόζονται από τους αυτόχθονες Ινουίτ του Καναδά και της Γροιλανδίας. Διαβάστε περισσότερα...

EU seal ban raises trade tensions with Canada

EurActiv, May 6, 2009

The European Union and Canada clashed on Tuesday after EU lawmakers voted to ban imports of seal products into the 27-nation bloc, prompting Ottawa to threaten action in the world's top trade court.
"If the ban adopted by the European Parliament fails to exempt humane and sustainable sealing, Canada pledged to launch a challenge at the World Trade Organisation, the global trade watchdog. If the EU imposes a trade ban on seal products it must contain an exemption for any country, like Canada, that has strict guidelines in place for humane and sustainable sealing practices," Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day said. Read more...

Have a look at Canada's 'humane...sealing practices'...

Once reducers of CO2, Canada's trees now contribute to global warming

ENN, January 8, 2009

In an alarming, yet little noticed series of recent studies, scientists have determined that Canada's 1.2 million square miles of forests have become so stressed from damage caused by global warming, insect infestations and persistent fires that they have crossed an ominous line and now pump out more carbon dioxide than they take in. Read more...

Toronto Pays Citizens Hefty Grants For Projects Reducing Carbon Footprint

ENN, July 28, 2008

The Canadian city of Toronto is paying citizens for going green. What’s been named the 'Live Green Toronto program', launched recently, has $20 million available over the next five years for citizen-driven carbon savings projects. The funding, in the form of subsidies, will go to projects that will help the city make good on its target of reducing its carbon footprint by 6% by 2012. Read more...

EU considering steps on seal hunt

BBC News, March 26, 2008

The European Union is considering taking measures against Canada over its annual seal hunt.
Spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich said the EU's Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas "is looking into the matter of the inhumane killing of seals". Canada has raised the limit of this year's catch to 275,000 seals. Read more...