Canada announces plans to protect vast marine zone with Great Bear Sea project

Political and Indigenous leaders hope to replicate success of British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest conservation areaNearly a decade ago, Canadian political leaders, environmental activists and Indigenous nations came together to shelter a sprawling 6.4 million-hectare area of trees, sea wolves, salmon and grizzly bears - a project that was named, with some branding acumen, the Great Bear Rainforest.The plan has since been hailed as a triumph for protecting swathes of old-growth cedar and spruce and drawing global attention to an area of pristine forest the size of Ireland. Continue reading...