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The resounding ‘yes’ vote in a referendum on halting oil extraction in the Yasuní, an area of vital ecological importance, is a huge victory for Ecuador. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

A month after Ecuador’s historic vote to end oil extraction in Yasuní National Park, its lessons are as vital as ever to Canadians

Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo, York University, Canada

The decision of the people of Ecuador to halt oil extraction in the Yasuní is a trend-setting precedent of global importance and a victory that Canadians should build upon.
Warmer temperatures could lengthen the growing season of trees and consequently increase their growth rate. (Shutterstock)

Climate change is making trees bigger, but also weaker

Roberto Silvestro, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) and Sergio Rossi, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

A longer growing season for trees, due to global warming, does not necessarily lead to an increase in wood production.
In North America, log driving is thought to have stopped by the end of the 20th century, with the exception of British Columbia, where it is still practised on a small scale. (Shutterstock)

What log driving can teach us about forests, past and present

Julie-Pascale Labrecque-Foy, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) and Miguel Montoro Girona, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)

Logging over the past two centuries has had a major impact on Québec’s forests. The traces it has left will guide the adoption of sustainable forest management techniques.

Related Topics

  1. Boreal forest
  2. Carbon capture
  3. Climate change
  4. Forestry
  5. Forests
  6. Global warming
  7. Tree rings
  8. Trees
  9. Wood

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