Forest Caucus Report

A Newsletter of the Canadian Environmental Network Forest Caucus

Winter 2004 Vol. 5 No.1

Special World Forestry Congress Issue

The articles contained in this electronic newsletter reflect the personal viewpoints of the ENGO delegates who received funding to take part in the XII World Forestry Congress, held September 21 to 28, 2003 in Quebec City. Articles apear in the language in which they were submitted.


CONTENTS:

Canadian ENGO Participation at the World Forestry Congress
Allyson Brady, CEN Forest Caucus Steering Committee

World Forestry Congress NGO Statement

World Forestry Congress Final Statement

La participation des jeunes au Congrès forestier mondial
Robert Ménard, Président, ENvironnement JEUnesse

Observations at the Boreal Ecoregional Session
Denise English, Forest Stewardship Council

Canada’s Endangered Acadian Forest
David Coon, Conservation Council of New Brunswick

Mapping our Forests: The Last Large Intact Forest Landscapes
Katie Ballantyne, Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group

Ambioterra’s participation in the World Forestry Congress
Boris Romaguer, Ambioterra

Report on Aboriginal and Indigenous Events
Erin Horvath, Land Use Planner for Cat Lake First Nation and Slate Falls First Nation & Lindsay Bunce, Lake Superior First Nations Development Trust

Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and the World Forest Congress (WFC)
Simon J. Mitchell, Falls Brook Centre

From Global to Local and Back Ecosystem-based Management in Labrador
Erika Pittman, Sierra Club du Canada

Towards Gender Sensitive Forestry
Tyla Crowe, Sierra Youth Coalition

“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally”
Riki Burkhardt, Federation of Ontario Naturalists

Sustainable Forest Management in the Guinean-Congolian Bioregion - Collaboration, Not Duplication
Chris Hunter, One Sky – The Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living

Industrial Forestry
Jessica Dempsey, POLIS project on ecological governance

Managing Canada’s Boreal Forests (FSC Side event)
Chris Henschel, CPAWS-Wildlands League

Public Activism: A Report on the Launch of Greenpeace’s Boreal Campaign.
Richard Brooks, Greenpeace Canada

Voices of the Boreal Review – WFC side event
Susanne McCrea, The Boreal Forest Network

The Great Bear Rainforest and the World Forestry Congress
Greg Higgs, Forest Action Network (FAN)

Forest (de)Valuation: The Unsettling Economic Fad
Rosa Kouri