The Great Bear Rainforest agreement protects two million hectares (5 million acres) of rainforest from logging.

 This includes:

• Previously protected parks (0.4 million hectares)
• Newly negotiated protected areas (over 1.3 million hectares)

• Biodiversity zones in which no logging is allowed but tourism and mining exploration may occur (0.3 million hectares)

By mid 2007, the B.C. government had declared 65 new protected areas (706,000 hectares) as conservancies in the Central and the North Coast.   All of the remaining 45 conservancies (approximately 514,000 ha) that are outlined in the 2006 land use agreements will be legally declared in the Spring of 2008.
 
Conservancies, a new designation under the Park Act, are developed specifically to meet First Nation needs for cultural and traditional uses in protected areas while ensuring the protection of biological diversity and the natural environment as an over-arching purpose.

In conservancies, some compatible economic activities may be allowed under special permit. Those activities cannot contravene the ecological, recreational and cultural purposes of the conservancy.  Any activities allowed in conservancies will be part of a management plan that is developed collaboratively by First Nations and the provincial government.