Canada's forests are not disposable

Logging companies are cutting down Canada’s Boreal forest - destroying this ancient forest at an alarming rate. The largest companies involved in this destruction, AbitibiBowater and Kruger, continually clearcut areas the size of 17,000 football fields. As one of the world’s last remaining original forests, Canada’s Boreal deserves better. We need your help getting the message to The CEOs of AbitibiBowater and Kruger: Canada’s forests are not disposable.

Greenpeace is calling these companies to account - over the next few weeks and months we will be putting pressure on these companies to clean up their practices. We need your help in letting these companies know that Canadians - their customers - want them to clean up their logging practices.

Tell AbitibiBowater CEO David J. Paterson, along with Kruger CEO Joseph Kruger what you think of the way in which their companies continue to treat Canada’s Boreal forest.

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Dear Mr. Kruger and Mr. Paterson,

I am writing to express my concern regarding your company's logging practices in Canada's Boreal forest.  As a concerned customer of many of your clients, I hope that AbitibiBowater and Kruger will implement, without delay, new and responsible forest management policies.

The Boreal forest represents a unique and vital natural resource. It acts as home for many First Nations communities, contains countless animal and plant species and helps curb global warming.  In Canada, we hold the power to protect this incredible ecosystem. As the country's largest logging companies, AbitibiBowater and Kruger should be at the heart of these protection efforts. Instead, your companies continue to act irresponsibly.

Reckless logging practices such as massive clear-cutting are destroying the Boreal's remaining intact forest landscapes.  Considering that only 25% of the world's original forests remain, these practices are especially unacceptable.  Thus, I support Greenpeace's demands that your company immediately:

1. Defer on logging in all intact forest landscapes and mapped endangered forests including caribou habitat, and work with Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations and governments to have these areas formally protected.

2. Shift to FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certification across all tenures.

3. Publicly commit to cease licensing in currently unallocated areas.

4. Discontinue logging without prior and informed consent of First Nations whose territories are affected.

As natural resource and forest scarcity continues to increase, these objectives are becoming more important than ever.  Forest protection must be considered as a priority by global citizens, governments and especially, logging companies.

As a customer of the many businesses you supply, I urge  AbitibiBowater and Kruger to begin considering their role in forest protection as a serious part of their corporate citizenship.  Should your companies choose to continue ignoring these duties, I will avoid buying products from the customers you supply:  I refuse to support the continued devastation of Canada’s Boreal forest.

Sincerely,