Even at current logging…

Even at current logging levels, the province’s biodiversity is threatened. With the forest industry already exempt from the Endangered Species Act’s recovery requirements, habitat disturbance is proceeding at a pace that is driving species such as the at-risk woodland caribou toward local extinction. The new proposal puts Ontario’s plants and animals at even greater risk.

It also misses the mark on current societal trends. With ever more Canadians calling for action on climate change and for truly sustainable products, accelerating the role of single-use products is irresponsible and flies in the face of the need to reduce excessive consumption.

Ontario’s imperilled species can only survive alongside the forestry industry when limits, supported by science, are enforced. The science regarding what caribou need for a chance at surviving is known. It’s time to put those measures in place and create a sustainable industry that does a better job of sharing the land with the other animals and plants that inhabit the forests.