The International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC) is an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT), with major support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Lenfest Foundation. For over fifteen years PCT has been supporting conservation of old-growth forests and wilderness in North America.

IBCC is dedicated to public education and advocacy on behalf of protection of the world's boreal forests, with a special focus on the Canadian Boreal Forest. We work closely with Canadian and international environmental organizations, corporations and aboriginal First Nations to find common ground around the Canadian Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, a visionary plan to protect and sustain this globally important ecosystem over time.

About the Boreal Campaign

Canada's Boreal Forest, one of the largest intact forests left on Earth, is under threat. Logging, agriculture, mining, oil and gas, and hydro-electric development are rapidly increasing in the Boreal Forest of Canada. Because of this development, forested land in some Boreal areas is being lost at rates similar to those in tropical rainforests.

The United States, in large part, is driving the destruction of the Boreal. 80% of Canada's forest products exports – including catalogues, junk mail, and tissue paper – are consumed by the U.S. In addition, the U.S. buys more oil and gas from Canada than from any other nation.

We work in close partnership with members of the Boreal Songbird Initiative as well as a variety of Canadian groups to protect the Boreal. The key organization in Canada with the sole purpose of protecting the Boreal is the Canadian Boreal Initiative.

Steve Kallick, Project Director