“I hope that an international assembly of students who care will
make the Canadian government realize how important this is, and why
the destruction must stop,” said Helen Hubbard-Davis, a student
from The School Without Walls in Washington, D.C. “Eighty percent
of the world’s ancient forests have already been destroyed,
thousands of animal species and people have lost their homes,”
added Margot Springer a student from Wisconsin and a member of the
Oneida Nation of Green Bay.
The U.S. is one of the largest consumers of wood products from
Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, purchasing
nearly two-thirds of the wood.
While in Canada the students will meet with Canadian government
officials. They will also travel to the Great Bear Rainforest to
see the destruction first hand. They will leave the banners hanging
in the forest as a symbol of international opposition to its
destruction.
“If school children from around the world are fighting to save
the earth’s remaining old growth forests, we hope the Canadian
government will hear their cries and put an end to the
destruction,” said Scott Paul, Greenpeace forest issues
specialist.
Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, in coastal British Columbia, is
North America’s largest remaining unprotected rainforest.
Greenpeace is calling on the U.S. and Canada to save the remaining
ancient forests in North America.
Greenpeace is the leading independent global organization, which
uses peaceful and creative activism to protect the global
environment.
