BOYCOTT INTERFOR
1100-year-old Douglas fir recently felled by Interfor. May 2000 cutblock 101-86 located in the Upper Elaho Valley within the proposed Stoltmann National Park Reserve. Photo credit: WCWC.
Interior 1998 clearcut in the Elaho Valley after a fire allegedly started by Interfor employees. Cutblock 101-83. Photo credit: taken in September 1999 by WCWC.
DESTROYER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA'S PRISTINE OLD-GROWTH COASTAL TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS
Typical year 2000 Interfor clearcut around Clatse Lake in the Great Bear Rainforest. June 2000. Photo credit: Raincoast Conservation Society
Masked Interfor employee terrorizing an environmentalist camp in the Stoltmann Wilderness in August 1999. Caught on video by an activist.
Interfor cut-and-run. Year 2000 Interfor logging near Clatse Lake in the Great Bear Rainforest. Photo credit: Raincoast Conservation Society.
VIOLATOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS
INTERFOR, a large British Columbia-based multi-national forest company, accounts for a significant proportion of the clearcutting the ancient rainforest along the coast of B.C. Over the last few years it has purchased logging rights to contentious, ecologically sensitive areas that conservationists are trying to protect, including Clayoquot Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest, and the Stoltmann Wilderness.
Interfor is aggressively targeting the biggest and oldest trees and the most critical areas. It hires "macho" loggers who use intimidation tactics, destroying equipment, burning camps, and "roughing up" environmentalists to prevail. These attacks culminated in a September 15, 1999 raid, when 70 Interior loggers attacked and beat up a small group of protestors in the Elaho Valley, sending three to the hospital. Company employees destroyed evidence and lied to the court to cover up the attack, which a company foreman called "ethnic cleansing." These human rights abuses are documented in the June 2000 Supreme Court of British Columbia case Interior v. Kern.
Interfor believes it can win against the conservationists. It intends to"liquidate" the last of the ancient temperate rainforests, one of the most threatened forest ecosystems in the world, despite the ecological and social consequences. Peaceful protestors are in jail for trying to stop them, while Interfor has never faced any penalties for its actions. Are we going to let Interfor win?
AGGRESSIVE CLEARCUTTER OF ECOLOGICALLY CRITICAL AREAS
Cutblock LS14, logged fall 1999 near the Pacific Rim National Park, is 1.2x0.6 km wide. Photo credit: Friends of Clayoquot Sound, June 2000.
The first conservationist arrests in Clayoquot Sound since 1993. Photo by Friends of Clayoquot Sound, June 2000 on the border of Pacific Rim National Park.
Force This Company to Change or Go Out of Business
REFUSE TO BUY INTERFOR WOOD PRODUCTS
1000-year-old redcedar in cutblock 72-20 in Sims Creek being grapple-yarded by Interior. May 2000. Photo credit: WCWC.
This giant stump is all that remains of a millennial redcedar, logged May 2000 by Interfor from cutblock 72-20 of Sims Creek. Photo credit: WCWC.
International Forest Products Ltd.(Interfor)
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Vancouver, B.C. V7X 1117 Fax 1-604-688-3133
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