Water Stewardship Information Sources

Citation Armstrong, P. 2009. Conflict resolution and British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, Lessons Learned 1995-2009. Coast Conservation Initiative.
Organization Coast Conservation Initiative
URL http://www.coastforestconservationinitiative.com/pdf7/GBR_PDF.pdf
Abstract/Description or Keywords In March 2009, a plan to protect a globally significant temperate rainforest
region on Canada’s Pacific Coast was endorsed by the British Columbia
Government, First Nations, environmental groups, forest companies and
coastal communities. It took almost fifteen years of conflict, negotiation,
multi-interest planning backed by independent science and the intervention
of international forest products customers to reach this milestone.
The following charts the path from conflict to consensus and explains how
an unprecedented conservation outcome in the Great Bear Rainforest was
achieved by its people and communities and how this will continue into
the future. Of course the story wouldn’t be complete without considering
the lessons learned along the way; it concludes with an overview of what
the experience and the process taught those involved. These lessons inform
the continued collaboration between those involved in implementing
the rainforest plan announced in March 2009, and they should prove useful
for people elsewhere where high conservations value forests are at risk.
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Regional Watershed Central Coast
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