2007

Conserving Canada's Forests

Market Grants

INCREASING FSC USE IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
EcoImpact, Toronto, $30,000 Encouraging use of FSC products in the construction of low-rise residences and commercial buildings by identifying barriers in the wood supply chain.

CONTINUING DEVELOPMENT OF THE FSC SYSTEM IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ONTARIO
Muskoka Heritage Foundation (Westwind Forest Stewardship), Bracebridge, $20,000 Clarifying technical aspects of the various FSC standards for forest managers who are considering certification.

BOREAL CAMPAIGN
Sage Foundation (ForestEthics), Vancouver, $100,000 Achieving conservation gains in Ontario's Boreal forest and building public awareness of forest issues in Québec.

GREENING NORTH AMERICA'S NEWSPAPERS
Sage Foundation (Markets Initiative), Vancouver, $180,000 (over 2 years) Reducing the environmental impacts of newspaper publishing and newsprint, the largest segment of paper produced from Canada's Boreal forest.

LEVERAGING FSC "ON THE GROUND" IN British Columbia
West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation, Vancouver, $120,000 Collaboration among conservation groups and First Nations to advance FSC certification.

BOREAL FOREST PROGRAM
Wildlands League, Toronto, $80,000 Working towards sustainable forest management, comprehensive land use planning for the northern boreal forest, and promoting FSC certification.

ACHIEVING PERMANENT PROTECTION FOR CANADA'S FORESTS
World Wildlife Fund Canada, Toronto, $50,000 Advancing FSC certification efforts by working with industry to increase the amount of certified forest and with governments to permanently protect deferred areas of high conservation value. omoting forest sustainability in Québec through protected areas establishment, .

POLICY & LAW GRANTS

Canada is one of only three countries in the world with large, intact (i.e. undeveloped) forests. Russia and Brazil are the other two. That leaves Canada with an important global obligation to protect fundamental ecological functions within forests at scale. Two critical ecological functions are providing habitat for endangered woodland caribou and serving as a globally significant carbon reservoir, helping mitigate the effects of climate change. In 2007 over $600,000 was granted to nine organizations working to achieve gains in protected areas in Canada, including four important regional collaborations.

WOODLAND CARIBOU AND CARBON PROJECT
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Ottawa, $100,000 Working with governments and industry to increase forest conservation as a strategy to adapt to global warming and as a means of saving Canada's endangered woodland caribou.

COLIN STEWART FOREST FORUM
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Halifax, $40,000 Collaborating with the forest industry and government to establish protected areas in Nova Scotia.

PROMOTING AN ECOSYSTEM VISION FOR QUÉBEC FORESTRY
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Montréal, $50,000 Encouraging sustainable forest management and the completion of the protected area network.

CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE ACADIAN FOREST
Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Fredericton, $147,000 (over 2 years) Ensuring that New Brunswick's new forest management policy for crown land is based on a conservation-first approach to planning that will maintain and restore the diversity and character of the Acadian forest.

PROTECTING CANADA'S BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH LEGAL ACTION
Ecojustice Canada, Toronto, $100,000 Protecting Ontario's boreal forests by working towards comprehensive land-use planning for Ontario's northern ecosystems and the application of the law to mitigate unsustainable industrial development.

IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY
Nature Conservancy of Canada (Two Countries/One Forest), Montréal, 35,000 Strengthening the network of partner organizations working to conserve, restore and reconnect the Northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion.

SHIFTING TO SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE BOREAL FOREST AND PROTECTING KEY WILD AREAS IN QUEBEC
Nature Québec (Aux Arbres Citoyens), Québec, $70,000
Completing the provincial protected areas network and encouraging sustainable forest management.

BOREAL FOREST FORUM II: CLIMATE CHANGE AND CANADIAN FOREST
Ducks Unlimited, Edmonton, $30,000
Increasing science and policy literacy and identifying policy measures related to forest conservation and climate change.

IMPLEMENTING ECOSYSTEM-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT IN QUÉBEC'S WILDLIFE RESERVES
Nature Québec, Québec, $100,000 Working towards a new sustainable forestry plan for the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, as a provincial pilot project for Québec’s wildlife reserve system.

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Director-Initiated

NO. 9 CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Evergreen Foundation, Toronto, $50,000 (over 2 years)

CHASE MCEACHERN TRIBUTE FUND
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario,Toronto, Ontario $15,000

SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE
Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria, British Columbia $75,000 (over two years)

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Strategic Opportunities

The Foundation recognizes the importance of providing strategic, time-sensitive grants to support organizational development, the convening of colleagues, and to enhance institutional capacity in the environmental and philanthropic sectors. Climate change has emerged as perhaps the single greatest threat facing ecological and human systems. Forests in Canada are already experiencing the devastating effects of climate change, with the mountain pine beetle infestation destroying 80 percent of B.C.'s interior forests. The Foundation has taken a lead in convening conservation and climate organizations to address the complex science and policy issues related to forests and climate change.

POLICY FORUM AND SUSTAINING MEMBER
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network, Toronto, $10,000

FORESTS AND CARBON SCIENTISTS' WORKSHOP
Ducks Unlimited, Edmonton, $5,000

PREVENTING POLLUTION: ACHIEVING AN EFFECTIVE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (CEPA) II
Environmental Defence Canada, Toronto, $30,000

LAND USE VISION FOR ALBERTA
Miistakis Institute of the Rockies, Calgary, $10,000

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Nature Canada, Ottawa, $5,000

S.O.S. COALITION: LINKING ENDANGERED SPECIES AND BOREAL CAMPAIGNS
Ontario Nature,Toronto, $21,000

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Pembina Foundation, Drayton Valley, $10,000

2007 MEMBERSHIP
Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Montréal, Québec, $10,900

MAINTAINING MOMENTUM BEYOND CEPA REVIEW
Pollution Probe Foundation, Toronto, $25,000

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Sage Foundation (ForestEthics), Vancouver, $10,000

PAPER CUT
Sierra Club of Canada Foundation (Sierra Youth Coalition), Ottawa, $12,400

INCREASING INVESTMENT IN RESEARCH INTO MARKET-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society, (Manning Centre for Building Democracy), High River, $20,000

CAPACITY BUILDING IN ATLANTIC CANADA AND 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Sustainability Network, Toronto, $30,000

ONTARIO ENVIRONMENTAL PRIORITIES 2007
Tides Canada Foundation, Vancouver, $20,000

FSC MARKET STUDY
University of Alberta, Edmonton, $5,000

A GLOBAL VISION OF FORESTRY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
University of Toronto, Faculty of Forestry, Toronto, $10,000

FSC – IIDEX EVENT
World Wildlife Fund Canada (FSC Canada), Toronto, $5,000

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