Landmark deal to protect Canada Great Bear Rainforest

(BBC)Indigenous tribes, timber firms and environmental groups in western Canada have welcomed a deal to protect one of the world's largest remaining tracts of temperate rainforest.

The Great Bear Rainforest on the Pacific coast of British Columbia is home to many animals and ancient trees.

Logging will be banned across a huge area of the forest. Environmental campaigners say the deal is a model for resolving similar land-use disputes around the world.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35467660


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Great news. I have sailed up and down the inside passage in the past.many times. And the beauty of nature on the west coast cannot be described. There are century old trees. Vancouver Island had a real problem in the past with clear cutting by the logging industry.From the water on the west side of the island you can see huge areas of forest gone,everything cut and what they wanted to use they took what the didnot want they burnt. Acres and acres of bare land,with pollution by erosion.Rivers are filled with silt and salmon cannot spawn etc. where once there was old growth trees and beautiful nature.I am very glad they will preserve some of it.

Good news that there is a new and binding agreement for conservation throughout the diverse coastal forests of British Columbia. Now can we please dispense with the ridiculous moniker " Great Bear Rain Forest: which was coined by a few ardent environmentalists. They and the media ( especially from Britain) love the phrase, but it has absolutely no meaning in reality, Just a coy catch phrase like "global warming":.

Edited February 2, 201610 yr by tigermonkey