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old-growth

Politics
B.C.’s plan to protect old-growth trees is rolling out too slowly, say conservationists, First Nations
by Sue Jones March 11, 2022
March 11, 2022
A year and a half after the province pledged to dramatically change how B.C.’s old-growth trees were logged, conservationists and First Nations say action on the issue is lagging and details about what is being done are obscure.Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Ian Illuminato stands beside an old-growth red cedar in an approved cutblock in Uchucklesaht and…
Politics
Protests over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island have sparked change, expert says
by Sue Jones August 30, 2021
August 30, 2021
In the year since the first camp was set up to prevent old-growth logging around the Fairy Creek watershed on southern Vancouver Island, an expert in Canadian environmental movements says the protests have made a mark on politics and public discourse.An activist on Vancouver Island fixes a dory into a tree in June 2021 to…

B.C.’s plan to protect old-growth trees is rolling out too slowly, say conservationists, First Nations