Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac)
www.alpac.ca

Alberta Pacific, one of the most advanced pulp mills in North America, uses progressive and environmentally sustainable best practices in the management of its forests as well as the production of high quality kraft pulp. These range from bug farms to purify effluent, wood waste to generate green electricity and integrated forest practices to mimic natural disturbances within its 57,000 km² forest management area. Together with its team members, Al-Pac encourages local residents and First Nations communities to work together to maintain healthy communities and ecosystems within its area of operations.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
www.cpaws.org

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is a national, non-profit, membership-based conservation organization devoted exclusively to protecting Canada's wilderness heritage. CPAWS is a unique umbrella group representing 11 dynamic regional and local chapters, who in turn represent hundreds of dedicated volunteers and 20,000 active members across Canada. Since its foundation in 1963, CPAWS and its chapters have helped to protect over 400,000 km² of Canada's most treasured wild places. CPAWS focuses on promoting the establishment of new parks and making sure the needs of nature come first in their management.

Dehcho First Nations
www.dehchofirstnations.com

Dehcho First Nations represent all the aboriginal peoples of the Dehcho descended from the Dene, including Dene, Metis, status and non-status Indians. Dene are people of several cultures who were born to the lands that they have occupied and used since time immemorial in northern Canada. Dehcho Elders encourage Dene descendants to learn and follow the ways of the ancestors when using the lands of the peoples. People now refer to this as traditional knowledge-based land management. Dene continue to think of their lands in the way that other people have just begun to think of as "the environment." For Dehcho Dene descendants, the word "land" means everything natural in the Dehcho territory: waters and air, trees, plants, berries, animals, birds, fish, and insects; what is on and what is below the surface of the land.

Domtar Inc.
www.domtar.com

Domtar Inc. is the third largest producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America. It is also a leading manufacturer of business papers, commercial printing and publication papers, and technical and specialty papers. Domtar manages, according to internationally recognized standards, almost 90,000 km² of forestland in Canada and the United States, and produces lumber and other wood products. Domtar has 12,000 employees across North America. The Company also has a 50 per cent investment interest in Norampac Inc., the largest Canadian producer of containerboard.

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC)
www.ducks.ca

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) conserves, restores and manages wetlands and associated habitats for North America's waterfowl. These habitats also benefit other wildlife and people. Created in 1938, DUC has positively influenced more than 100,000 km² of wetland habitats across Canada. Active in every province and territory, DUC has completed more than 7,100 habitat projects. DUC is a private non-profit organization, governed by a board of directors representing business, industry and commerce. DUC has 150,000 members and supporters and 8,200 volunteers. DUC has been working with partners to advance sustainable development and protect key wetland systems through proactive, watershed based conservation planning and delivery in Canada's western Boreal Forest since 1997 and has also commenced Boreal conservation activities in Quebec, Ontario and Atlantic Canada.

The Ethical Funds Company
www.ethicalfunds.com

Launched in 1992, The Ethical Funds Company is Canada's original and largest manager of socially responsible mutual funds. In addition to evaluating all investments according to their financial, social and environmental performance and outlook, The Ethical Funds Company promotes corporate accountability - making good companies better - and gives investors a voice in encouraging sustainable business practices.

ForestEthics
www.forestethics.org

ForestEthics is an environmental organization that redirects markets toward ecologically sound alternatives to protect all endangered forests. It grew out of the Clayoquot Rainforest Coalition (CRC), founded in 1994. Since its origins, ForestEthics has become leader within the environmental movement in educating individual consumers, large corporate purchasers and distributors so they are aware of the environmental impacts and ethical dimensions of their purchasing decisions. Its goal is to harness market power to stop destructive activities of certain logging companies, while encouraging a shift toward environmentally preferable alternatives.

Innu Nation
www.innu.ca

The Innu Nation is the governing body of the Innu of Labrador, dedicated to protecting Innu land, Innu rights and the Innu way of life prior to a land rights settlement. It represents the collective rights and interests of approximately 2,200 Innu people in two communities, Sheshatshiu and Natuashish under the direction of an elected president and board of directors. The Innu Nation's primary objective is to represent the Innu of Labrador in land rights and self-government negotiations, and it is currently negotiating an Agreement-in-Principle with the governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador. The Innu Nation and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador recently implemented an eco-system based forest management regime for central Labrador.

Kaska Nation
www.kaskadenacouncil.com

The Kaska traditional territory encompasses over 240,000 km² in northwestern British Columbia and the southeast Yukon, extending into adjacent parts of Northwest Territories. Kaska territory contains extensive mountain ranges, wild rivers and large intact tracts of Boreal Forest. The Kaska Nation is engaged in developing new models for conservation and resource stewardship in their territory. These include land use plans based on traditional knowledge and conservation biology, balancing designations of large-scale protected areas and conservation lands with opportunities for ecosystem-based resource management to secure a sustainable economy for the Kaska people.

The Kaska are partnering with the Canadian Boreal Initiative through the Dena Kayeh Institute to document and incorporate Kaska traditional knowledge, support community-based land and resource management planning and to build Kaska capacity and strategic leadership to ensure a strong Kaska voice in land and resource decision-making.

The Nature Conservancy
www.nature.org

Founded in 1951, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) works in all 50 United States and 27 countries. Dedicated to preserving the diversity of life, TNC has protected more than 470,000 km² of land and more than 8,000 km of river around the world. TNC has significant conservation interests across North America and one of TNC's priority goals in Canada is to maintain the ecological integrity of the Boreal Forest by working with partners, in particular the companies, non-governmental organizations and First Nations aligned with CBI.

Poplar River First Nation
www.poplarriverfirstnation.ca

Poplar River First Nation is an isolated community of approximately 1,100 people. The community is located in Manitoba, approximately 400 km north of Winnipeg on the east shore of Lake Winnipeg without road access. The people of Poplar River have looked after and protected their traditional territory for thousands of years and continue to do so today. Through the direction of their Elders, Poplar River sought and obtained from the Province of Manitoba an Interim Parks Reserve status for approximately 9,000 km² of its traditional territory. This designation protects the area from logging, mining, gas and hydro development. Poplar River is in the middle of the process of developing a Lands Management Plan for this area based on the direction of their Elders combined with scientific information. They have also joined with the communities of Little Grand Rapids First Nation and Pauingassi First Nation in Manitoba and Pikangikum First Nation in Ontario, and are working towards a United Nations designation as a World Heritage Site for their combined territories.

Suncor Energy Inc.
www.suncor.com

Suncor Energy is an integrated energy company with resource development operations in western Canada and refining and marketing operations in Ontario and Colorado, USA. More than 4,000 employees work in Suncor's upstream and downstream operations in Canada and the United States. Suncor's vision is to be a unique and sustainable energy company, dedicated to vigorous growth by meeting the changing expectations of its current and future stakeholders. To Suncor, being a sustainable energy company means managing its business in a way that enhances social and economic impacts to society, while striving to minimize the environmental impacts associated with resource development.

Tembec Inc.
www.tembec.com

Tembec is a leading integrated forest products company, well established in North America and France. With sales of approximately $4 billion and some 11,000 employees, it operates 50 market pulp, paper and wood product manufacturing units, and produces chemicals from by-products of its pulping process. Tembec markets its products worldwide and has sales offices in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, China, Korea, Japan and Chile. The company also manages more than 160,000 km² of forest land in accordance with sustainable development principles.

World Wildlife Fund (Canada)
www.wwf.ca

World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) is part of WWF International, the world's largest independent conservation group. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Founded in 1961, this global network now works in more than 100 countries. Working with government, business and communities across Canada since 1967, WWF-Canada has more than 60,000 supporters. In 2000, WWF-Canada concluded its decade-long Endangered Spaces campaign, which protected more than 1,000 new areas across the country.