Sustainable Forestry

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MARK MALLOCH BROWN

Szerző: Liberatem Pugnator

Areas para la Consultoría de Servicios basados en Nuevas TIC's

Szerző: José Arévalo

Effective Classroom Management

Szerző: Josephine Jones

OSS for office administration

Szerző: Boonlert Aroonpiboon

Sustainable Forestry

Government Role (all levels),trade,protection,crownlands

Main tpic

Role of NGOs in making forests sustainable

David Suzuki foundation

conducts research

found that most of logging in BC's coastal forests is in old growth forests and most is clearcutting

Greenpeace

Its Kleercut campaign against company tissue maker Kimberly Clark was laucned in Nov. 2004 and involved Activist protests, scientific reports and media.

It pressured the BC government to keep its promise to protect the Great Bear rainforest bu putting up billboards and publishing fullpage ads in newspapers

It wanted people to know that a substantial amount of the pulp Kimberly Clark uses to make its kleenex products comes from Canada's Boreal Forest.

Nature Conservancy of Canada

It helped conserve more than 2 million acres of ecologicalllly suignificant land across Canada

It recently protected 462 acres of land in the Riding Mountain area of Canada

The NCC is an NGO that buys,manages and restores natural areas. It gets land by buying it with donated money or by people donating land and then it protects the land,

Canopy

It convinced J.K Rowling and Raincoast Books to print Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on 100% recycled paper making Harry Potter the greenest book in history.

Its green magazine campaign led to 34 Canadian magazines developing ecopaper policies and switching to environmental paper.

Because of canopy th e Globe and mail was the first North American newspaper to develop an Ancient Forest Friendly paper policy

In order to be Ancient Forest Friendly 100% of the paper fiblre must hace ecological attributes and the paper must be manufactured with a high percentage of recyled material.

Canopy enourages use of paper that has the Ancient Forest Friendly logo

They also have to maintain the ecological functions and integrity of the forests.

FSC Canada

To put the FSC label on their products forest product companies have to follow sustained yield forest management principles.

A certifying group that lets you know you are buying products from responsibly managed forests or recycled sources.

environmental hazards, fire & pest management

Pest Management

Forest fires

Acid Precipitation

Deforestation/Reforestation

Protecting Old Growth Forests

Where they are in Canada

Why they are important

How Canada is protecting them

Clearcut v.s. patch & Selective cutting

Which one is better or worse

What they are used for

What is the difference between the two

Research & Development

Genetics

Pictures

Example of genetics

What they are

Silviculture

Selective Cutting

Clear cutting

What it is