{"id":595,"date":"2023-08-01T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brightpuff.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2023-08-02T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:14:23","slug":"wildfires-and-clear-cut-logging-are-destroying-canadas-boreal-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brightpuff.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/wildfires-and-clear-cut-logging-are-destroying-canadas-boreal-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires and Clear-Cut Logging Are Destroying Canada\u2019s Boreal Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This summer\u2019s wildfires \u2014 on top of ongoing industrial logging \u2014 are destroying a vast area of some of the world\u2019s last remaining intact forests in the north of Canada. We all must stand up now to demand action to protect what remains. As a key step, add your name to our Freedom of Information request<\/a> urging the Government of Canada to reveal the true climate impacts of logging!<\/p>\n

In just weeks, wildfires have destroyed an area of Canadian forests the size of Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie, combined<\/a> \u2013 more than 3% of all forested areas in our country.<\/p>\n

Fires have displaced over 150,000 people<\/a> in Canada, led directly and indirectly to innumerable deaths, destroyed and disturbed wildlife and their habitats, and caused billions of dollars of property damage and lost productivity.<\/p>\n

And the fires have now spewed out more carbon pollution<\/a> than our entire country emitted in 2021.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s boreal forest is one of the last remaining intact forests on the planet, and home to more than 600 Indigenous communities. It provides habitat to hundreds of species and billions of migrating birds and stores more carbon than all the world\u2019s known oil reserves.<\/p>\n

It is critical to our survival that we protect it.<\/p>\n

But ongoing clear-cut logging is destroying large areas of primary forest in Canada \u2013 about six NHL hockey rinks<\/a> worth every minute.<\/p>\n

And logging is also a massive carbon emitter: Earlier this year, Nature Canada calculated, based on government data, that logging caused the release of 73 million tonnes of carbon pollution<\/a> in 2021, equivalent to emissions from the entire province of Quebec.<\/p>\n

As this recent MinuteEarth<\/a> video shows, the federal government is masking the true impacts of logging: by giving industry credit for a massive carbon sink in forests they have never logged, the industry is allowed to portray itself as a carbon-neutral climate solution, when in fact, it is one of the highest emitting sectors of the Canadian economy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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