Rainforest Action Network

Beware of imitations. Multinational loggers armed with multi-million dollar Public Relations contracts are pushing imitations, such as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), designed to evade higher standards and mislead consumers.

Learn more about certification standards at the links below.

• buygoodwood.com
• credibleforestcertification.org

Destructive logging, spurred by high demand for cheap wood and paper products, is decimating the planet’s last old-growth forests. Learn how to help us force corporate America to stop destroying endangered forests and the communities that depend on them. 

• Wake up Weyerhaeuser
• buygoodwood.com

Home to endangered species such as the caribou and wolverine, the boreal forest is also the world’s largest terrestrial carbon storehouse—a critical defense against global warming. Keys to protecting the boreal include:

1. respecting the land rights of Indigenous communities, and
2. getting industrial paper makers and home builders out of ecologically important areas.

• The boreal forest

Canada’s treaties with First Nations guarantee them the right to practice customary activities like hunting and trapping on their traditional territory. But logging companies like Weyerhaeuser have ignored the right of northwestern Ontario’s Grassy Narrows First Nation to give free, prior and informed consent for any industrial activities on its land. RAN is working closely with the Grassy Narrows community to ensure that Canada’s government and companies like Weyerhaeuser respect treaty obligations.

• Free Grassy Narrows