The Globe and Mail: New forest management area inside Great Bear Rainforest aims to offset lost revenues with carbon credits
From The Globe and Mail on May 24, 2024. The province of British Columbia and the Kwiakah First Nation are creating a new management area in the Great Bear Rainforest that will replace commercial logging with a conservation model that generates revenue from other sources, including the sale of carbon credits.
Media Release: Kwiakah First Nation Transitions Tree Farm Licenses Into “Living Tree” Tenures to Establish a Conservation Economy on Their Territory
After almost a century of witnessing the impacts of industrial logging on their land, the Kwiakah First Nation has signed a tripartite agreement with the Province of BC and Interfor to create the new M̓ac̓inuxʷ Special Forest Management Area (SFMA).