While Canada has often boasted about its low rate of deforestation – when forest land is converted for another use – the letter released Wednesday places attention on degradation
TORONTO — The Canadian government must take action to stop the degradation of its forests from large-scale industrial logging, a letter signed by more than 100 scientists urged Wednesday.
"The industrial logging of primary and old-growth forests invariably degrades the forest’s original characteristics, no matter the subsequent forest regeneration practices." . The signatories wrote they were concerned by government statements questioning the functionality of the term degradation because of its lack of a commonly understood definition.
Canada is also a signatory to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use that commits to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. Simard is one of several scientists who have suggested replanted forests store less carbon than those undisturbed by industry, in part because some of that carbon is accumulated over centuries below ground or on the forest floor.
"Properly construed," the letter said, forest degradation would include industrial impacts on primary and old growth forests, and the conversion of naturally regenerating forest to planted forests or plantations.
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