Blogposts tagged 'Great Bear Rainforest'

Saved! The Koeye river delta in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia © Mauthe/Greenpeace

Tamara is communications director here in the UK, but in a previous life was a Greenpeace forest campaigner in both Canada and China.

An era ended for me this week when the government of the Canadian province of British Columbia finally protected my extraordinarily beautiful Great Bear Rainforest. Today, more than one-third of the largest intact area of temperate rainforest left in the world is legally off-limits to logging - an area half the size of Switzerland. For many people it's a pretty emotional moment.

I say "my" somewhat facetiously, because clearly I'm conscious of the fact that this is a global treasure that belongs to us all. And yet because I'm from British Columbia, and because the Great Bear campaign is where I cut my teeth as a campaigner, it feels a bit like it is my forest. It was a long, hard slog to get to this week, I must say, but along the way we 'baby' campaigners certainly learned a lot.