Great Bear Rainforest project earns environmental group $100,000 U.S. award
VANCOUVER — Three groups that were once labelled enemies of the province by a British Columbia premier have been given an international award for their work in helping to protect the Great Bear Rainforest.
The Rainforest Solutions project, a collective effort of Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and Stand.earth, has received the $100,000 Buckminster Fuller Design Award for a decades-long effort to safeguard the forest.
In 1996, during the peak of the so-called War in the Woods to save B.C.’s old-growth forest, then-premier Glen Clark called the environmental groups enemies of British Columbia.
Valerie Langer of Stand.earth said they’re pleased to be recognized by the foundation for helping solve divisive conflicts involving environmentalists, logging firms, First Nations and the provincial government.