More than 1,500 scientists from over 50 countries are pleading Canada to increase protection for our boreal forest.

A $10 million fund will help protect forests, wetlands and ecosystems in Ontario.

“The money will be used to establish conservation agreements on private lands or buy land outright to keep it from being paved over, protect species at risk like the Loggerhead Shrike, a predatory songbird, and expand provincial parks.”

“Greenpeace said it blockaded a ship Friday slated to carry a cargo of wood pulp from a Canadian freshwater port to a German plant operated by Stora Enso in protest over what the environmental group said are destructive logging practices.”

“A new fund being developed by the World Bank would pay developing countries hundreds of millions of dollars for protecting and replanting tropical forests, which store huge amounts of carbon that causes climate change.”

Rainforest representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo will appeal to the World Bank in Washington to complain about logging practices.

Uganda’s environment minister Maria Mutagamba announced that the government has rejected a plan to convert protected rainforest to sugarcane production.