Save the Boreal Forest

At over 10,000 hectares, Canada's boreal forest has some of the largest clearcuts in the world. Many of these clearcuts are to produce unsustainable tissue products.

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Canada's Boreal forest is one of the largest tracts of ancient forest left in the world. Almost 80 per cent of the Earth's original forests have already been degraded or completely destroyed, making the protection of our Boreal forest all the more important.
One of the major threats to Canada's Boreal ecosystem is clearcut logging to make disposable products such as toilet paper and facial tissue. Greenpeace is working to stop the destruction of Canada's largest intact ecosystem by trying to persuade consumers, institutions and companies to choose ancient forest friendly tissue products- ones made from 100 per cent recycled content.

End the Destruction of Canada's Boreal Forest

Logging companies are clearcutting Canada's Boreal Forest - destroying one of the planet's last ancient forests. Three of the largest companies involved in this destruction are Abitibi-Consolidated, Bowater and Kruger. They are wiping out the last intact areas of the Boreal Forest and trashing habitat of threatened wildlife. They are involved ongoing conflicts with First Nations communities and practicing some of the most destructive logging around.

Take action and tell the CEOs of Abitibi-Consolidated, Bowater and Kruger that Canada's forests are not disposable

Recent developments

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Hackers help destroy the Amazon rainforest

High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you'd normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government's sophisticated tracking system and fiddle the records.

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RONA a ‘leader in forest sustainability’ with new procurement policy, says Greenpeace

Greenpeace congratulated the leadership of RONA (TSX:RON) in instituting a new progressive policy that will help conserve Canada's forests. The home improvement chain has announced adoption of their first procurement policy for wood products and Greenpeace believes that the RONA policy will change the game. It positions RONA as the leader within the lumber and home renovation sector on forest sustainability.

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McGuinty breaks faith on protecting the Boreal Forest

The Ontario government has approved a controversial logging plan that will destroy critical woodland caribou habitat and undermine key conservation commitments by Premier McGuinty, say Greenpeace and Earthroots. Every tree logged in the Ogoki forest will be pulped to make toilet paper, junk mail, and other disposable paper products.

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300 million reasons why AbitibiBowater needs a rethink

Third quarter earnings released by AbitibiBowater today highlight the failure of the logging company's strategy to address environmental performance and sustainability.

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Call AbitibiBowater and demand an end to logging in intact forests.

Place a call today to AbitibiBowater’s head office and urge them to defer logging in intact Boreal Forests.

Let them know you want them to make sustainable forestry a reality.

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Greenpeace needs your help to protect Canada’s Boreal Forest

Kimberly-Clark continues to make Kleenex, Cottonelle, and other disposable products out of old-growth trees from Canada’s ancient Boreal Forest. So we’re asking everyone—especially moms and kids—to create messages that Greenpeace will deliver to Kimberly-Clark. Visit our action centre to get started, or read on for more info.

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Great Bear Rainforest Countdown: Greenpeace needs your help to "Keep the Promise"

The countdown is on for British Columbia's provincial government to implement the promises they made to protect the Great Bear Rainforest, and Greenpeace needs your help to ensure that Premier Gordon Campbell and his government "Keep the Promise."

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Greenpeace occupies AbitibiBowater headquarters

This morning, Greenpeace occupied the Montréal headquarters of logging company AbitibiBowater. In the early morning hours, three activists entered the offices of Canada’s largest logging company AbitibiBowater. They chained themselves to the entranceway doors and are currently disrupting day-to-day operations of the newsprint multinational. They are protesting AbitibiBowater’s ongoing destruction of the Boreal Forest.

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New evidence of Kimberly-Clark’s shocking mismanagement of forest resources

Shocking new photos released today reveal the existence of a massive stockpile of old-growth logs that are destined to become disposable products like Kleenex tissue and Cottonelle toilet paper for tissue giant Kimberly-Clark Corporation (K-C). The logs originate from the Ogoki Forest, the single most ecologically valuable area left in Ontario’s southern Boreal Forest and the site of growing controversy.

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