How much money would it take to turn the world’s largest temperate rainforest, currently a loggers’ paradise, into a conservation-based economy?
Greenpeace calculated that it would cost some C$120 million (US$100 million) to work that transformation on the 64,000 square kilometres of the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia. Coincidentally that’s the exact sum that has now been pledged by Canada’s environment minister, John Baird. The new deal is a combined effort, with C$30 million each from the federal and provincial governments and C$60 million from conservation groups.
Temperate rainforest is one of the most endangered types on the…
