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Conservation groups and environmental advocates are urgently calling on the BC government to take action in protecting old-growth forests.
This call to action comes on the five year anniversary of the Old Growth Strategic Review (OGSR) which offered the Province recommendations that would need to be acted upon in order to properly protect BC’s old-growth.
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A sprawling old-growth clearcut, nearly 40 hectares in size, logged by Teal-Jones in the Caycuse Valley in Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island, BC. Hundreds of ancient cedars, some measuring more than 10 feet (3 metres) wide, were logged here.
Conservation groups highlight five of the most shocking images of old-growth logging from the past five years, marking OGSR’s fifth anniversary with an urgent call for immediate government action to protect ancient forests
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A logging truck hauls old-growth trees, including a giant redcedar, along the shores of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, BC.
The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are calling on the BC and federal governments to tie the federal government’s $1.25 billion softwood lumber industry support package, announced by Prime Minister Carney in August and reaffirmed at his “strategic response fund” announcement to US tariffs last week, to help transition BC’s forest industry into a sustainable, value-added second-growth industry and away from old-growth logging.
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An old-growth Ponderosa pine in the Interior, fire-driven ecosystems in the South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area.
Media Release: BC Government Confirms No Commercial Logging in Provincial Parks Amid Rising Concerns in General for Protected Areas
The BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has officially confirmed that provincial parks are off-limits to commercial logging, responding to a formal inquiry from the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA). This comes amid growing public alarm that efforts to reduce the risk of forest fires can be misused to permit commercial logging in protected areas. While the confirmation provides some reassurance, the groups also warn that forest conservation reserves like Old-Growth Management Areas (OGMAs) may remain susceptible to commercial logging under the guise of fire-risk reduction, and like many conservation reserves, including Wildlife Habitat Areas (WHAs) and Visual Quality Objectives (VQOs), have logging loopholes that need to be closed.
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A quick overview on where Canada’s federal parties are at regarding nature and protected areas.
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This Earth Day, the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are calling on the BC government to refocus on their incomplete measures to protect old-growth forests, implement their draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework, and ensure a transition to a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry. At the same time, the groups are issuing a strong warning: commercial logging must not be permitted in protected areas under the guise of wildfire risk reduction.
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Conservationists want BC’s forestry industry to be modernized amid ongoing US tariff threats.
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Conservationists call for the protection of old-growth forests and incentives and regulations to ensure a modernized, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
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B.C.’s private forests aren’t subject to the same logging regulations as those on public land — putting old growth, wildlife habitat and significant ecosystems at risk
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From old-growth forests to grasslands, rainforests to dry forests, alpine mountaintops to rich valley bottoms – BC has the greatest diversity of ecosystems in Canada. The newly re-elected BC NDP government has an opportunity to ensure the protection of these globally renowned ecosystems for our health and well-being, to support a more sustainable, diversified economy, to support First Nations cultures, and to avert the extinction and climate crises.
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By Ken Wu
I have an optimistic and resilient outlook on life. I feel fortunate that I have always tended towards this mindset, which has helped me with my environmental activism and with life in general. But, like billions of people around the world, there was a period recently when I experienced a feeling of major despair and a foreboding that very hard times are coming for the planet and humanity – so much so that I even stopped looking at the news for a week (which I never do).
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The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) and Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) are welcoming the new 2024 Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord between the NDP and Green parties in BC. The cooperation agreement's priorities include the protection of Fairy Creek and a comprehensive review of BC forests in partnership with First Nations and diverse sectors, offering a key opportunity to strengthen old-growth forest protection policies.
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Read moreThe BC Conservatives take an extreme, anti-nature protection stance and will "absolutely axe" BC's protected areas plans to save 30% by 2030 of the province's land area and would turn all 22 million hectares of BC's unprotected, productive forests (including old-growth) into guaranteed logging zones. They promote gross misinformation about protected areas expansion and about the state of BC's forests.
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As we approach a BC election (October 19th - BC residents please register to vote at: https://elections.bc.ca/), where do the political parties stand on protecting nature? Safeguarding nature is vital for our health and well-being (even breathing in the air in nature is shown by science to boost our immune systems through plant compounds known as “phytoncides”), for the economy (protected areas attract and support a large diversity of industries and skilled labour to surrounding communities), for the climate, and for the diversity of life on Earth.
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Conservationists are applauding the leadership of the Ahousaht, Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and BC NDP government for yesterday declaring the protection of 76,000 hectares of land – an area about the size of Manning Provincial Park - in new conservancies in Clayoquot Sound near Tofino. Most of the lands committed for protection are comprised of some of the grandest and most intact coastal old-growth temperate rainforests on Earth, and the new protected areas will represent the largest old-growth forest protected areas victory in BC since the Great Bear Rainforest conservancies were announced in 2006. The historic milestone also includes major support from provincial, federal and conservation sources to facilitate sustainable economic development opportunities for the communities to facilitate their economic and social well-being.
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OTTAWA, ON - Today, conservation and environmental groups are applauding the federal environment Minister’s introduction of the Nature Accountability Bill, in keeping with commitments under the United Nations Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
This first-of-its-kind law would, if passed, enshrine Canada’s biodiversity protection targets into law, including its commitment to protect 30% of lands and water by 2030. There is clear evidence that nature and biodiversity is in crisis, with a million species at risk of extinction over the next few years, according to scientists. Without action, nature will remain in a dangerous decline.
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It’s been four years since a pair of professional foresters hired by the BC NDP government urged the province to take a radically new approach to old-growth forests.
In their strategic review, Garry Merkel and Al Gorley said the government should manage B.C.’s old forests as ecosystems rather than a source of timber. They also called for an immediate deferral of logging in old-growth forests in B.C. at risk of irreversible biodiversity loss.
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Conservationists note the latest BC government plan doesn’t include much action beyond its previous commitments, with the updated plan lacking specificity and objectives around old-growth protection, but the mention of a science advisory group is much welcomed. Key deferral funding and ecosystem-based targets are still missing. Existing commitments to protect 30% of BC by 2030 with over $1 billion in provincial-federal funding are moving protected areas progress forward, as the province has been in discussions with dozens of First Nations across BC on their Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) proposals.
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As the BC Conservatives surge in the polls, party leader John Rustad — kicked out of the BC Liberal caucus for promoting a tweet spreading misinformation about climate change — says he would scrap the province’s pledge to create new conserved areas
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