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  • For Vancouver Island’s old-growth explorers, naming trees is a delight – but saving them is a challenge

    January 7, 2020

    Check out this Globe and Mail article featuring the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance’s Ken Wu and the AFA’s TJ Watt, who recently located nearly two dozen(!) groves of spectacular but mostly unprotected old-growth Sitka spruce forest in the San Juan Valley in unceded Pacheedaht territory near Port Renfrew.

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  • ACTION ALERT: Have your say on the BC government’s Old Growth Strategy

    December 18, 2019

    The BC government is seeking public feedback on its proposed Old Growth Strategy until January 31st, 2020. Speak up TODAY for BC’s ancient forests by completing the online questionnaire or send an email to the independent panel, calling for science-based solutions to the old-growth crisis.

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  • AFA Year-End Celebration- THANK YOU!

    November 29, 2019

    Thank you to all who attended the AFA’s amazing 2019 Year-End Celebration last night! It was one of our best turnouts to date with more than 150 people joining us at the Victoria Event Centre. We are most grateful to you, our supporters, for your continued generosity and uplifting energy and to everyone who helped […]

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  • AFA Silent Auction: Stand Up Paddle Board

    November 23, 2019

    We’re grateful to have an array of fabulous silent auction items and experiences up for grabs at our Nov. 27th Year-End Celebration & Fundraiser, including a stand up paddle board donated to the AFA by a generous supporter! Read on for details & to make your bid.

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  • AFA Holiday Booths 2019 – Dates & Locations

    November 14, 2019

    It’s AFA holiday booth season! If you’re in Vancouver or Victoria and looking to pick up some awesome AFA gear including our beautiful 2020 calendars, stop by one of our booths to chat with our amazing canvassers!

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  • New Photo Gallery: Tahsis – Endangered Old-Growth

    November 13, 2019

    See our latest photo gallery featuring an incredible-yet-endangered stand of old-growth Douglas-fir trees growing on the hillside above Tahsis on the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC.

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  • Join the AFA Wednesday, November 27th, for our 2019 Year-End Celebration & Fundraiser!

    October 30, 2019

    Join us Wednesday, November 27th, from 6pm-9pm for the Ancient Forest Alliance’s 2019 Year-End Celebration & Fundraiser at Victoria Event Centre!

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  • Patagonia Victoria Treeline Film Screening- THANK YOU!

    October 24, 2019

    Thank you to all who joined us at Patagonia Victoria for the screening of the film Treeline, to Patagonia Victoria for hosting such a wonderful evening, and to Driftwood Brewery for the drinks!

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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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