To protect BC's diverse ecosystems, BC needs "Ecosystem-Based Targets" that are sufficiently refined and stringent to guide the forthcoming expansion of its protected areas system.

Speak up directly through the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework process by writing your own feedback at biodiversity.ecosystemhealth@gov.bc.ca by January 31st, 2024 and SEND a MESSAGE!

Stand up to Support MP Patrick Weiler's Motion to Protect Old-Growth Forests!

Member of Parliament (MP) Patrick Weiler has introduced a federal motion that launches an enhanced BC old-growth protection fund of $82 million, increased from the original $50 million - contingent on matching BC funds, that would bring the total to $164 million.

In the Great Bear Rainforest, $120 million was indispensable to help ensure the legislated protection of over 2 million hectares (an area two-thirds the size of Vancouver Island, or triple the size of Banff National Park) - so $164 million will be no small deal on the ground.

Right now 196 countries are converging UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal to negotiate new, international protected areas targets and policies.

Please SPEAK UP to your provincial and federal leaders for strong protected areas commitments to protect the most endangered ecosystems across Canada!

British Columbia is the most ecologically and biologically diverse province in Canada, spanning from towering old-growth temperate rainforests to hot dry grasslands, from low elevation wetlands to high elevation alpine tundra, and from freshwater to marine ecosystems.

Currently, about 15% of the province is safeguarded in legislated protected areas, with ecosystems across the province at risk from a variety of industrial threats including industrial logging, suburban sprawl, oil and gas, mining, and agricultural conversion.

For almost 2 years, the BC and federal government have been negotiating a potential funding agreement to expand the protected areas system in BC.

If they do this, such a Nature Agreement could be the biggest game-changer for the protection of endangered ecosystems and old-growth forests in BC's history, finally ending the 50 year old War in the Woods!

PLEASE SEND a MESSAGE to the BC and Federal governments.

Here’s our action page, updated Oct 14, to ensure that the BC government funds the protection of old-growth forests in BC.

To finally Protect Old-Growth Forests in BC, Funding from the Provincial and Federal governments is vital to support Indigenous Protected Areas and First Nations Land Use Plans that protect Old-Growth Forests, as well as a Land Acquisition Fund to purchase and protect Old-Growth Forests on Private Lands

Send a message to the BC government: it can become a world conservation leader by joining the national and international momentum, which includes First Nations communities across Canada, to greatly expand its protected areas system - including protecting the grandest, most endangered old-growth forests in BC while it currently develops a new set of old-growth policies.

Stop Open-Pit Coal Mining in Alberta!

On May 15, 2020 the Alberta government announced that it would be removing the environmental protections implemented through its 44 year old “Coal Policy”, devised by former premier Peter Lougheed in 1976, that prohibited open-pit coal mining in vast swaths of the province’s Rocky Mountains and foothills.

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BC’s old-growth forests are vital to support many unique and endangered species, First Nations cultures, B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar tourism industry, and to provide clean water for communities and wild salmon. In addition, and they store more carbon per hectare than even tropical forests do.