Most Canadians already understand that Canada’s forest industry is world-class. Compared to most other nations with the largest forest industries, we go above and beyond the standard call to reduce the environmental impacts associated with harvesting trees. Here are several facts showing just how Canada’s forest sector is world-class:

• Canada has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world, with just 0.01% of total deforestation in 2018.
• Canada’s forestry sector is planting roughly 600 million new trees annually.
• From 2007 to 2017, the industry dropped energy use by 24% and total fossil GHG emissions by 40%.
• Roughly half of Canada’s forests are certified to third-party standards of sustainable forest management.
• Canada’s boreal forest is largely undisturbed, with 80% of it being relatively untouched and free of industrial disturbance.
• Canada will be the first nation in the world to launch a satellite that will specifically monitor wildfires – nothing else.