Canada’s Boreal Forest Under Attact

A new report released by Greenpeace on the 10th of April 2008 finds that logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is making global warming worse by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage. It also finds that logging makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases. Click Here to watch the video.

Research shows that intact areas of the Boreal Forest—those areas that remain in their natural states—will be better able to resist and recover from global warming impacts than those areas fragmented by roads, logging, mining, or other human activity.