Deforestation Inc: How auditors profit by legitimising deforestation

DEFORESTATION INC | Just past Mile 73 on the highway that connects Canada to Alaska, north of the small city of Fort St John in British Columbia, a dense line of spruce and pine abruptly ends. It is replaced by a vast expanse of brush and stumps scarring the clear-cut forestland.

Sherry Dominic and her family once fished, hunted moose and picked berries here, following traditions of the native Blueberry River First Nations that stretch back hundreds of years in Canada’s westernmost province.

The land was once covered in the boreal forest and laced with clear streams.

Then, the loggers came...