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  • Meet ‘Big Lonely Doug’ And Other Historic Trees That Need Saving in BC

    October 18, 2019

    Check out this great Weather Network video about BC’s endangered old-growth forests, featuring the AFA’s TJ Watt, Big Lonely Doug (Canada’s 2nd largest Douglas-fir tree), and nearby Eden Grove in Pacheedaht territory near Port Renfrew.

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  • Thank you for participating in our livestream event ‘The Future of BC’s Ancient Forests’

    October 11, 2019

    Thanks to all who were able to join us last night for our livestream event ‘The Future of BC’s Ancient Forests’!

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  • THE OLD GROWTH TREES ARE IN DANGER

    October 10, 2019

    The AFA’s Andrea Inness was interviewed on CFAX last week about the damning results of the Ministry of Forests investigation into BC Timber Sales’ logging of old-growth forests in Nahmint Valley. Hear her breakdown of the findings, what they mean, and how the BC government should respond. Listen to the full interview here

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  • Conservationists attack NDP government over old-growth logging

    October 7, 2019

    Watch this Global News story, where Forests Minister Doug Donaldson manages to dodge responsibility for BC Timber Sales’ non-compliance in the Nahmint Valley.

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  • BC Timber Sales Continues Old-Growth Logging in Nahmint Valley Despite Government Investigation Showing Nearly Two Decades of Non-Compliance

    October 7, 2019

    The BC government’s own logging agency, BC Timber Sales, is failing to comply with the Province’s own inadequate standards for old-growth forest protection, according to a 2018 Ministry of Forests investigation into old-growth logging in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni. Read our media release for all the details.

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  • ‘Indicative of a truly corrupt system’: government investigation reveals BC Timber Sales violating old-growth logging rules

    October 7, 2019

    Read Judith Lavoie’s excellent article in the Narwhal about BC Timber Sales’ failure to meet the Province’s low standards for old-growth management in the Nahmint Valley, home to some of Earth’s largest and oldest trees located in Hupacasath and Tseshaht territory near Port Alberni.

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  • VIDEO: McKelvie Watershed at Risk

    October 3, 2019

    Earlier this year, we visited the town of Tahsis on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island to explore the McKelvie Valley and learn first-hand from local residents why this rare, intact watershed needs protecting. Watch our latest video to find out what we learned.

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  • A Closer Look at B.C. Forestry and Tall Tree Tourism

    October 3, 2019

    Douglas Magazine (Vancouver Island’s business magazine) recently published this piece about the AFA’s work to protect old-growth forests, the rise of “Tall Tree Tourism” on Vancouver Island, the negative impacts of raw log exports, and opportunities for BC to transition to a value-added, second-growth forest industry.

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    • Campaigns VIEW ALL

    • Provincial Old-Growth Protection Strategy

      The Ancient Forest Alliance is calling for the provincial government to establish a BC Old-Growth Protection Strategy that would ensure comprehensive, legislated protection for BC’s ancient forests on public/Crown lands. The science-based plan would incorporate timelines to immediately end old-growth logging in “critically endangered” forests, and quickly phase out old-growth logging where there is a “high risk” to […]

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    • BC Natural Lands Acquisition Fund

      A BC Natural Lands Acquisition Fund would allow for the purchase and protection of BC’s most endangered ecosystems on private lands to sustain wildlife, clean water, recreation and tourism. British Columbia’s most endangered ecosystems are often found on privately-owned lands.  These endangered ecosystems include Coastal Douglas Fir and Dry Maritime forests on BC’s southern coast; […]

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    • Cameron Valley Ancient Forest near Port Alberni.

      Cameron Firebreak

      Just a half hour drive from Cathedral Grove is an ancient forest that is just about as impressive – the Cameron Valley Ancient Forest or “Firebreak.” This area is a valley-bottom-to-mountain-top old-growth Douglas-fir forest that was originally left as a moist, old-growth rainforest firebreak to stifle the spread of forest raging through the dry clearcuts. It was supposed to have been protected as an Ungulate Winter Range for the legions of magnificent Roosevelt elk and black-tailed deer that live here.

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    • Central Walbran Valley

      The Central Walbran Valley on southern Vancouver Island is the grandest old-growth rainforest in Canada. The area is jam-packed with hundreds of the monumental redcedars, especially in the spectacular “Castle Grove,” which is perhaps the most extensive stand of near record-sized cedars on Earth. Unfortunately this also makes the area a prime target for logging.

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    • Echo Lake

      Echo Lake is a spectacular, unprotected, lowland ancient forest near Agassiz, BC, in a region where virtually all of the valley bottom old-growth forests have been logged. The area is home to perhaps the largest concentration of bald eagles on Earth, where thousands of eagles come each fall to eat spawning salmon in the Harrison and Chehalis Rivers and hundreds roost in the old-growth trees at night around Echo Lake.

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    • Black bear climbing old-growth redcedar tree in Eden Grove.

      Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest

      he Edinburgh Grove, the most spectacular part of the Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest on its southwestern side, has also been nicknamed the ‘Eden Grove’. More than half of the Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forest is open for logging, while other parts are protected as a ‘core’ Wildlife Habitat Area (the ‘buffer’ zone can still be logged, and has already been logged in several areas) for the endangered Queen Charlotte Goshawk, as an Ungulate Winter Range, and as Old-Growth Management Areas.

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    • Katlum Creek near Comox Lake and Port Alberni.

      Katlum Creek

      Katlum Creek is home to endangered ancient Douglas-fir stands, as well as old-growth hemlock, amabilis fir, and cedars. This area was originally supposed to become officially protected as Ungulate Winter Range for black-tailed deer, but unfortunately in 2004 the BC government environmentally deregulated vast sections of forest lands now owned by Island TImberlands in the region.

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    • McLaughlin Ridge

      Conservationists are calling on the BC government to protect a 500 hectare tract of ancient Douglas fir forest near Port Alberni that biologists have classified as both critical habitat for wintering deer and nesting endangered Queen Charlotte goshawks. The BC government needs to protect the old-growth forest on McLaughlin Ridge by purchasing it from Island Timberlands.

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