Maps: snapshots in time

During the 1990’s industrial logging clearcut large swathes of forest in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. Up until 2005 the region remained largely unprotected with just 7 percent (443,000 hectares) of the region protected in parks.

Today 33 per cent of the region (2.1 million hectares) is protected from logging. New logging regulations, based on Ecosystem Based Management, ensure that over the entire region 50 percent of the natural level of old growth forest will have to be maintained (or restored where forests have been heavily logged). The new logging regulations put over 700,000 hectares (1,700,000 acres) of rainforest, outside of protected areas, off limits to logging. The rainforest off limits to logging is representative