I just read this in the BBC news. Great news for Canada's natural forest territory. Nice research for my TIMBER Jack video game based on Silviculture.
Timber companies and environment groups have unveiled an agreement aimed at protecting two-thirds of Canada's vast forests from unsustainable logging.
Over 72 million hectares are included in what will become the world's largest commercial forest conservation deal. Logging will be totally banned on some of the land, in the hope of sustaining endangered caribou populations.
Read FULL article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10123210.stm
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