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Great news from Australia! A logging company has settled its lawsuit against its activist critics, and believe it or not the logger is the one who has to pay the legal fees! In 2004, the largest logger in Tasmania, Gunns Ltd. surprised the world by suing 20 of its strongest critics, charging them with 9 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Good question! USGS reports that “Before European settlement, forests covered nearly one billion acres of what is now the United States.” Data tables from the UN Forest Resource Asessment 2005 show that only 257, 439,329 acres (104,182,000 ha) of “primary” forests remain in the US (defined as where there are no clearly visible indications of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Coming up in November, RAN staff will be attending the FSC General Assembly meeting as one of 350 members of the environmental chamber. The FSC is the only forest certification scheme in the world in which RAN and environmentalists can fight for greater protections – others, like the SFI, won’t even let us in the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 4, 2008
Forest News Watch posted an interesting interview with Boise Cascade CEO Tom Stephens Friday. When asked what effect “the agreement reached with Rainforest Action Network” had on day-to-day operations of Boise Cascade, Stephens responds in part that “I’m not aware of any agreement between the two parties, either before I came or after.” Stephens is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Looking for a little good news? Try this: earlier this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced the largest forest conservation deal in Canadian history, and set a historic precedent for the rights of Indigenous people at the same time. On July 14th, the Ontario government agreed to prohibit development on at least half of the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 14, 2008
The Ontario Government just announced plans to protect 56 million acres of Northern Boreal forest from all industry. The area falls entirely in the traditional territories of 36 First Nations communities, who are mostly affiliated with the Nishnaabe Aski Nation. The plan commits to bringing protection in Ontario’s roadless Northern Boreal region up to 50% [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 27, 2008
The National Post just reported that Canada’s top Federal spooks were keeping *really* close tabs on last year’s National Day of Action for Native Rights–apparently including protests planned in support of Grassy Narrows. Mind you, this is not terribly surprising–when Canadian customs started seizing our laptops and cameras at the border a couple years back, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 24, 2008
LINK to the Grassy Conference Call – click here to listen On June 19th, 2008, RAN hosted a conference call to discuss the Old Growth Campaign’s part in the Indigenous lead efforts that brought us to the tremendous news that AbitibiBowater had decided it was time to leave the Whiskey Jack forest in the traditional [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 23, 2008
Check out these lengthy news pieces on Grassy Narrows’ victory in kicking the clear-cut logging corporations off their territory – an area three times the size of Yosemite National Park. CBC National primetime interview with Roberta Keesick Article on AlterNet Feature Article in Toronto’s Now Magazine Article on rabble.ca Environmental News Service newswire The Toronto [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
RAN doesn’t have big campaign victories every day. We are definitely a very talented group of people who work with very talented activists, organizers, ally organizations, and community members every day, and we celebrate our successes when they happen – readers of this blog definitely know this to be true. But a victory as big [...]
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Monday, March 16, 2009
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