ForestEthics Celebrates Boreal Forest Conservation Plan
By Anna Strom on July 16, 2008 - 1:59pmThank you and congratulations to ForestEthics! After years of working to conserve the Boreal Forest, on July 14th the Ontario government announced that they will protect nearly half of the province's vast Northern Boreal forest from industrial development. This is the largest conservation commitment in Canadian history.
The Boreal plays an essential role in providing clean water, storing carbon (essential for the fight against global warming), and sustaining ecosystems and communities, including 28 First Nations communities and the habitats of caribou, wolverine, lake sturgeon and polar bears.