Every year, ancient and endangered forests around the world are logged to produce paper. Trees up to 1200 years old end up in products such as newspapers, catalogues, magazines, and books. This isn’t news.

But what is news is that eco-friendly alternatives do exist and over the past four years publishers have made significant progress towards conserving forests globally. They have worked to pioneer an international movement, have been instrumental in stimulating the market for new eco-friendly papers and garnered impressive ecological savings. That’s all good news for endangered forests such as Canada’s temperate rainforests and the Boreal.

So check out their collective website to see a list of participating publishers. They promise to add more detail (book and magazine titles, for example) in the near future; but one that we have all heard of is the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Canada, Germany and the UK.

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