Poisoning nature for logging profits
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The Toxic Tradeoff of Glyphosate
Hi Paov,
For decades logging corporations have been spraying toxic chemicals over cutblocks using a herbicide called glyphosate. It's a chemical that has serious health risks for humans and catastrophic impacts on entire kingdoms of life — fungi, bacteria and plants are all killed by this chemical.
We’ve published a new report, The Toxic Tradeoff of Glyphosate, outlining how misguided and ruthless it is for logging corporations to use this chemical in the forests.
Here's the first article: Poisoning nature for logging profits
The death of a tree echoes through a valley as it descends to decomposers, becoming a nurse log. In its death, seedlings establish on top, gaining protection from disease, access to nutrients and sunlight. These young seedlings are just one reminder death is a catalyst for life. Below the surface, fungal threads spread through the forest,
piercing and entering cells of a raspberry plant — species merge at their edges.
Native plants, important fungi and bacteria are harmed from the poison sprayed on them and the soil, leaving a grey wasteland.
Dynamics between species and the living and nonliving are complex, even in forests that are naturally regenerating after disturbances. Although forests suffer huge losses remaining forever changed from clearcut and old-growth logging, ecosystems are resilient and, in time, can be productive, life-giving forests once again. Quite the opposite of this are forest plantations: industrial landscapes regrown just to be slashed again.
Here the natural regrowth of the ecosystem is stifed with a chemical herbicide called glyphosate. The impact on the interactions between species and the nourishing cycle of life and death are catastrophic. Native plants, important fungi and bacteria are harmed by the poison sprayed on them and the soil, leaving a grey wasteland...
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Here's how you can help
- Call, write or meet with your local elected officials and demand they halt glyphosate spraying and update forestry laws to prioritize values other than logging.
- Distribute additional copies of this paper in your local coffee shop or community centre. Contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request more copies.
For the wildlife,
Charlotte Dawe
Conservation and Policy Campaigner
Wilderness Committee
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