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. Here is
a selection of some pictures that can be found in the report.
Canada’s Boreal Forest is dense with life. Richly populated with
plants, birds, animals, and trees; home to hundreds of
communities; and a wellspring of fresh water and oxygen, the
Boreal has long been recognized as a critically important
ecosystem. But as rising temperatures threaten to destabilize
the planet, the potential of the Boreal’s carbon-rich expanses
to mitigate global warming continues to be underestimated. Based
in part on a comprehensive review of scientific literature by
researchers at the University of Toronto1, this report examines
the complex relationship between