Lungs of the world. Precious home to wildlife. Storer of carbon. Protecting old growth forests is protecting our way of life. Around the world, old growth forests are under attack by corporate interests and lax environmental rules. Not only does this threaten rare and endangered species, it threatens the entire planet’s ability to produce the oxygen we breathe and store carbon away from the atmosphere where it’s heating the globe at a rapid rate.
Founded as ForestEthics in 2000, Stand.earth was created to safeguard forests. Since then, we've protected 65 million acres—including the iconic Great Bear Rainforest—from unsustainable logging practices.
Now, as the climate warms, it's more important than ever to push governments and corporations from unsustainable exploitation of forests.
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The Great Bear Rainforest is very wild and very big – two thirds the size of...
Latest Press Releases and Blogs
12, Apr 2022
B.C. groups are releasing new evidence of ongoing logging and pending cut permits in proposed old growth deferral areas in the province.
05, Apr 2022
This announcement comes after months of sustained pressure from hundreds of thousands of residents of B.C. and beyond to protect these last...
08, Mar 2022
New research released today has identified the risk to proposed old growth deferral areas in British Columbia from logging companies.
