Will Canada See the Forest for the Trees?

Because our neighboring nations have so much in common culturally, you can sometimes almost forget that you’ve traveled to another country when visiting Canada from the United States. But after spending much of the last year fighting the efforts of the Trump administration to undermine our environmental safeguards, I find it encouraging to meet with a government willing to consider taking much-needed actions to protect its communities and environmental treasures. At the beginning of February, my NRDC colleague <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/anthony-swift" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Anthony Swift</a> and I traveled to Ottawa to meet with indigenous and environmental leaders as well as officials from the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Our main focus was <a href="http://w3.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/boreal.htm" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the boreal</a> forest, one of the largest, most important forest ecosystems in the world. This massive biome, which rings the top of the globe just below the Arctic Circle, provides critical habitat for countless species and is the ancestral home for many hundreds of indigenous communities. <a href="https://medium.com/natural-resources-defense-council/will-canada-see-the-forest-for-the-trees-bf910bbe0639">Website</a>