Forests
University Wiping Away Alberta’s Endangered Forests
For immediate Release: May 1, 2007
Students’ point out that the University is Wiping Away Alberta’s Endangered Forests
University presented with petitions asking for ethical purchasing of toilet paper Read More
UN Forum on Forests: Major Groups Call for Urgent Action
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: April 23, 2007
New York, April 23 - Major Groups took the lead on a multi-stakeholder dialogue at the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) 7th Session being held in New York and called on Governments to undertake immediate action on behalf of civil society. They told the UNFF that the status quo is unacceptable and expressed alarm at the unprecedented rate of forest disappearance which is having tremendous impacts on people and the environment. They said that it is time to move the dialogue to action and called for a member country to host a Major Group-led initiative in 2008 that would allow more substantial discussion on Major Groups' engagement in the multi-year programme of work (MYPOW). Nations are convened at the UN Headquarters to discuss a non-legally binding instrument (NLBI) on all types of forests and the MYPOW for the period 2007-2015. Read More
Alberta's War on Pine Beetles - Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: April 12, 2007
The implications of the impending outbreak of mountain pine beetle (MPB) in Alberta look to be profound, but knee-jerk attempts to deal with the problem - or to be seen to deal with the problem - will likely do more damage than the beetles themselves. Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) believes that measures to deal with the MPB outbreak must be led by the best available science. Read More
Action Alert: Register for Provincial Oil Sands Consultations
The Alberta Tar Sands are one of the biggest social and ecological challenges in North America, fueling climate change, destroying our Boreal Forest, and drying up our mighty rivers. Albertans will carry all the costs while the party moves South. The time to set a new vision for Alberta's Energy Policy is now! Join the Sierra Club in our call for a moratorium on new developments in Alberta's Tar sands and find out how you can help create an safe energy future that we can all live with!
There will be public hearings on the Tar sands Alberta in March and April that will define the future of our province and you need to be a part of them. Here is how! Read More
Action Alert - 20 more years of clearcut logging about to be approved in the water supply for Oldman River Basin
Short Letters Needed Now to Hon. Ted Morton
Unless the new Minister of Sustainable Resource Development (SRD), Ted Morton, hears otherwise from southern Albertans, in a week or so his Forest Management Director will sign off on the Branch's decision to lock the Oldman River Basin headwaters into 20 more years of new logging roads, skid trails and clearcuts. Read More
Caribou Jeopardized by Forest Products Association Decision to Clearcut for Pine Beetle
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: January 22, 2007
Alberta's threatened woodland caribou suffered one more nail in the coffin with the recent about-turn by the Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) in its decision to ignore caribou habitat in the ongoing "war on pine beetle." Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is fed-up with one more flip-flop in the AFPA's inconsistent approach to protection of the endangered woodland caribou, and is calling for their removal from the Alberta government's Caribou Committee (ACC). Read More
Death by a Thousand Cuts: Impacts of In-situ Oil Sands Development on Alberta's Boreal Forests
Give Your Bum a Voice! Kleercut University of Alberta
Presented by Greenpeace Canada, Environment Direct Action Network and Alberta Foothills Network
The students and alumni of this student group are raising awareness on campus regarding the source of the university’s toilet paper and paper towels: Kimberly-Clark. Also, makers of many household items such as Kleenex and Scott paper towels, this corporate giant has been found to be placing a huge demand on cheap pulp from Canada’s Boreal Forest. One of its sources includes Alberta’s endangered foothills forests. Read More
Woodland Caribou Sacrificed as Government Forces Companies to Log Pine Forests
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: December 7, 2006
The Deputy Minister of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) has confirmed that the Alberta Government is directing forestry companies to commence liquidation of pine forest in critical habitat of mountain woodland caribou as part of its war on mountain pine beetle (MPB). AWA is opposed to clear-cut logging and industrial activity in critical woodland caribou habitat. AWA believes the government's actions contradict a key recommendation of the West Central team, charged with implementing caribou recovery in the area. Read More
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