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Podcast

Sep 29, 2020

Direct action in defence of old-growth forest

Talking Radical Radio

Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright talk about the Fairy Creek blockades, which are defending some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging.

Blog

Mar 24, 2020

Healthy forests mean healthy people

David Suzuki

Forests are beneficial for our physical and mental health. Numerous studies illustrate how much forest walks can do for heart and respiratory health, immune system function and lowering stress levels.

Podcast

Dec 12, 2019

Land trusts -- the gift that keeps on giving

rabble radio

Sheila Ziman of the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust talks about how land trusts work, and why generous people sometimes give gifts of land to their communities for conservation.

Columnists

Dec 11, 2019

Nature-based climate solutions go beyond planting trees

Ole Hendrickson

Protecting existing high-carbon ecosystems is an effective way to mitigate climate change, and Canada, with its vast expanses of intact forests and wetlands, can play a significant role.

Blog

Jun 25, 2019

Can caribou and industry coexist?

David Suzuki

With greater worldwide demand for responsibly obtained and produced products, companies can reap marketplace rewards for responsible practices and avoid boycotts and legal challenges.

Blog

Apr 7, 2019

Indigenous and Afro-Colombian land defenders at risk from business interests backed by paramilitary forces

Brent Patterson

Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in Colombia face crushing poverty and logging, mining and agribusiness on their ancestral territories.

Blog

Jan 26, 2019

Peaceful Resistance of La Laguna challenges deforestation in Guatemala

Brent Patterson

Forest defenders face risks as deforestation driven by agri-business, logging and drug trafficking worsens climate breakdown and intensifies harm to Indigenous cultures.

Blog

Sep 26, 2018

Climate change and corporate greed combine to destroy forests with fire and felling

Ed Finn

As devastating as this year's wildfires have been, they are not the only threat to the world's forests. Massive deforestation caused by human activity threatens much of the world's woodlands.

Blog

Jan 11, 2017

We can learn so much from nature

David Suzuki

Biomimicry has inspired applications ranging from producing energy through artificial photosynthesis to building lightweight support structures based on the properties of bamboo.

Columnists

Apr 27, 2016

Protecting Eastern hemlock, our next endangered tree species

Ole Hendrickson

Eastern hemlock trees may be next to fall victim to an invasive alien species with the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid. But we may still have a few years to prepare for its arrival.

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