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CANADA


Most of Canada's forest is in the boreal zone which stretches in a broad band from northern British Columbia to Newfoundland.

The balance, mainly in the western and southern regions, is in the temperate zone. Canada's forests occupy 1.5 times the land area of the entire European Community and represent 10 per cent of the world's forested area. 67 percent of the total forests are softwood 18 percent mixed wood and 15 percent hardwoods.

Canada has retained more than 90 percent of its original forest cover. With a land base of 921.5 million hectares, Canada has 417.6 million hectares of forest, of which 56 percent is managed for timber production.


DOCUMENTS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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01/03/2012 Impacts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Certification in North America
The authors of this paper conducted email surveys of organisations that had received forest management ... 		Journal of Forestry

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01/01/2008 Forest governance in countries with federal systems of government: lessons and implications for decentralization
Decentralization has been a popular theme in the forest sector. Much of this work and these discussions ... 		CIFOR (Arnoldo Contreras-Hermosilla, Hans M Gregersen, and Andy White)

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10/04/2006 Guidelines for formulating and implementing national action plans to combat illegal logging and other forest crime
Many of the governments and stakeholders involved with the ENA FLEG process have indicated that they ... 		World Bank

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01/03/2006 Justice in the Forest: Rural Livelihoods and Forest Law Enforcement
This study was born out of a concern that a narrow focus on law enforcement could unintentionally harm ... 		CIFOR (Marcus Colchester)

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01/11/2002 Clearing the Forest, Cutting the Rules
Richard Brooks, Kim Mandzy and Louise Molloy highlight the problems associated with the prolifertion ... 		Sierra Legal Defence Fund and Earthroots (Richard Brooks, Kim Mandzy and Louise Molloy)

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NEWS

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06/03/2013 SFI Applauds EU's New Illegal Logging Rules
Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI), today applauded the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), ... 		PR Newswire

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02/10/2012 Tree loss may double floods in snowy areas
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18/05/2012 TIMBER! Illegal loggers cut down historic 800-year-old cedar tree at Canadian park
An 800-year-old red cedar tree has been cut down after it was attacked by illegal loggers. ... 		Daily Mail, UK

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03/08/2011 DR Congo entrusts forest management to Canada's ERA
Kinshasa — The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has entrusted a Canadian company with managing ... 		AFP

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08/01/2011 See the forest for the trees
They won't mind if you call them treehuggers - the United Nations has proclaimed 2011 as the International ... 		Toronto Sun, Canada

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03/01/2011 Top five forest stories of 2010
In the context of an overall bleak 2010 for the planet, forests offer a bright point for some celebration ... 		Grist

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19/03/2010 Will Green Building Council kill green forestry?
Canada has more eco-friendly forest than any other country. More than 155 million hectares of Canadian ... 		The Tyee, BC, Canada

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18/03/2010 LEED accused of 'conspiracy to monopolize'
The Forest Stewardship Council calls its forestry rules the "gold" standard, and its allies ... 		The Tyee, BC, Canada

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17/03/2010 Wood war sprawls to IRS, Fortune 500
"SFI Inc. is a fully independent, charitable organization dedicated to promoting sustainable forest ... 		The Tyee, BC, Canada

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15/03/2010 Future of 'green' wood hangs on US decision
A powerful body in Washington D.C. is about make a decision about green labelling that will have sweeping ... 		The Tyee, BC, Canada

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30/10/2009 The West fuels illegal Myanmar timber trade
Bangkok - The United States may have imported $3.8 billion of illegal timber products from China last ... 		The China Post

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21/10/2009 Canadian forestry leader urges ambitious global action to end deforestation
Buenos Aires - Avrim Lazar, President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and ... 		Newswire, Canada

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17/07/2009 100 million acres of forest now managed to FSC standards
The area of U.S. and Canadian forests managed to stringent environmental and social standards surpassed ... 		Sustainable Business

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22/04/2009 Domtar achieves FSC certification at four additional paper mills
Montreal - Domtar Corporation announced today that it has achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain-of-Custody ... 		PR Newswire

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14/04/2009 Catalyst's recycled newsprint is now FSC-certified
Richmond, BC - Catalyst's recycled newsprint mill in Snowflake, Arizona, has achieved Forest Stewardship ... 		PR Newswire

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17/03/2009 Crisis hits wood industry, forests still vulnerable
Rome - The global financial crisis and the collapse of the housing sector are a big blow for wood industries, ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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20/01/2009 Canadian firms pleased with EU logging crackdown
The Canadian forest products industry is welcoming a European Union bid to crack down on the illegal ... 		Canada.com (Canada)

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01/11/2008 Sustainable forest management in Argentina
Canada and Argentina are working together to develop sustainable forest management (SFM) practices in ... 		Natural Elements newsletter from Natural Resources Canada

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07/12/2006 Top court upholds aboriginal logging rights on Crown land
Canada - Native people have the right to log Crown lands for personal use, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday ... 		CBC (Canada)

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06/12/2006 Canada forest industry calls catalog's caribou ban "simplistic"
Ottawa, Canada - The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), today commented on the decision by ... 		CNW (Canada)

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24/05/2006 Canadian forest preservation effort in South Pacific could fight crime, climate change
Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister asks Ottawa for tougher rules to stop the loss of forest in his country ... 		Embassy (Canada)

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12/01/2006 Al-Pac Forests Now World's Largest FSC-Certified Area
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac) in Alberta, Canada, a pulp manufacturer owned 70 percent ...

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20/09/2005 Alberta-Pacific awarded Forest Stewardship Council certification
Alberta, Canada - Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac) has been certified by the Forest Stewardship ... 		World-Wire

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20/09/2005 A first for Quebec forests: Tembec is awarded FSC certification for nearly 3 million acres of forest
Canada - Tembec and World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) announced today that Tembec has been awarded ... 		Newswire (Canada)

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09/09/2005 Activists to Banks: Behave Better in the Boreal
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 9, 2005 - ForestEthics and Rainforest Action Network have sent letters to ... 		Green Biz (USA)

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21/07/2005 Politicians must solve logging impasse: Natives
Canada - Wednesday's Supreme Court rulings on aboriginal logging rights show the need for a political ... 		CTV (Canada)

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PRESENTATIONS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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20/01/2009 Canada - a global partner in legal and sustainable forest products Peter Besseau, Canadian Forest Service

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18/06/2008 Legal Wood leading to the Success of Wood Industry Quebec Wood Export Bureau (Robin Lu)

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LINKS

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Canadian Model Forest Network The Canadian Model Forest Network (CMFN) is a network of 14 model forest sites across Canada, funded by Natural Resources Canada. Each local site involves numerous partners who all work towards sustainable landscape management. Partners include, forest companies, Aboriginal communities, private citizens, parks, environmental groups, governments and universities. As a network the CMFN collectively works to raise the profile of model forests in Canada and around the world and coordinates relevant national initiatives. Broken link

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Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) label is a certification body which promotes sustainable forest management via third-party certification audit. The standard is used widely across North America. Broken link

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Taiga Rescue Network TRN is an international network of NGOs and indigenous peoples working for the protection of the world's boreal forests which cover the far northern regions of North America, Russia and Europe. They have produced various publications on illegal logging.

To view ENA FLEG documents, including Chinese and Russian translations, click here. 		Broken link

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