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Greenpeace has used government statistics and photographs proving the existence of clearcut logging in the provinceof Quebec. Greenpeace was responding to the Quebec government's recent denial of the existence of clearcuts within the province Approximately 260,000 hectares are clearcut each year in Quebec according to the National Forestry Database Program. "All the figures given came from public government sources." said Richard Brooks, forest campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. "Quebec logging like much of the forestry across Canada in the Boreal forest is not sustainable. It's time that government and industry substantially improve these logging practices," said Brooks. Only .07% of Quebec tenured forests are certified as sustainable according to the Forest Stewardship Council, the only certification system supported by environmental groups. Greenpeace is calling on the Quebec government and industry to end destructive logging practices like clearcutting and adopt an immediate moratorium on developing the most endangered and intact portions of the boreal forest until proper conservation land use planning can occur.
