Canada’s ‘Avatar’ forest
Forest in country’s west battles to prevent commercial logging, reflecting plot of Hollywood blockbuster.
Published On 6 Mar 2011
It’s the battle to save ancient woodlands from a profit-driven corporation. That may sound like the plot of the hit movie ‘Avatar.’
But it is also the real-life story of a forest in western Canada earmarked for commercial logging, and the campaign to stop that from happening.
Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Source: Al Jazeera