Forest Carbon Credits
Currently, forestry in British Columbia is largely about the timber that can be harvested, with most forest lands managed with only the economy in mind — the dollar value of the timber market.
.thumbnail.jpg "Slide of modeled carbon emissions reductions available for Clayoquot Sound, from Hughes' webinar presentation")
From mid-April to the end of May, 2011, Ecotrust Canada participated in a series of web-based presentations on First Nations and Carbon hosted by the Centre for Environment, in collaboration with The First Nations Carbon Collaborative (FNCC).
Ecotrust Canada is currently carrying out an assessment of the carbon offset opportunities of Iisaak Forest Resources’ Tree Farm Licence in Clayoquot Sound under ecosystem-based management.The Rainforest Solutions Project has released a report about carbon sequestration in BC’s so-called “Great Bear Rainforest” on the Central Coast.
Environmental groups press the provincial government to follow through on its promise to limit logging in Central Coast rain forest
Ecotrust Canada is turning its attention to ways local communities can extract more value from the area's timber.
The article Woods War II by Konrad Yakabuski appeared in the October 2008 issue of the Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine.Konrad Yakabuski’s examination of the ongoing debate about the future of Clayoquot Sound’s forests is timely and important. His story in Report on Business (ROB) magazine does an excellent job of capturing the remarkable complexity of issues that continue to defy easy answers.
Search "native" and "unemployment" in The Globe and Mail'sarchives from 1977 to the present, and you'll get hundreds of hits. The stories chronicle years of spiralling poverty on reserves, Third World housing and escalating suicide rates.
WoodsWarII-Banner.jpgClayoquot Sound was a historic green victory. But now the coalition that barred forestry from Canada's last, best place has come unstuck. With natives logging for themselves, will things come to blows amid the old growth?
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