by meralda
The world's largest conservation agreement was signed May 18, 2010. The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement was announced by a consortium of 21 major Canadian forest products companies and nine leading environmental organizations (listed at this link). The NYTimes explained: Timber companies and environmentalists unveiled an agreement today that suspends logging and road building on about 70 million acres of Canada's boreal forest for the next three years... In exchange, nine environmental groups have promised to end campaigns urging boycotts of boreal timber products and calling for investors to pull their cash out of companies that sell them. The Boreal Forest is a global ecosystem larger than the Amazon rainforest. Canada's portion is over 1.3 billion acres. In Canada, it is also home to over 600 First Nations communities. And they were not consulted when the agreement was being made.
continued at Daily Kos....
