BC Environment

• ‘Urgent crossroads’: 3-year anniversary of B.C. old-growth commitments, groups calling out province

  According to a number of organizations, none of the 14 recommendations have been fulfilled, while old-growth trees continue to be logged.

  Environment

  Sep 14
  
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada seize hundreds of illegal, ghost traps near White Rock, B.C.

  Crews collect the traps using a line and grapple hook, which is thrown over the side of a patrol boat, then dragged across the ocean floor.

  Environment

  Jan 28
  
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• B.C. government announces new conservancy to protect rare ecosystems near Revelstoke

  The conservation of 185,329 acres in the Incomappleux Valley, located in the Selkirk Mountains roughly 29 kilometres west of Revelstoke, B.C., was announced Wednesday.

  Environment

  Jan 25
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• Environmental group sues B.C. government over alleged ‘missing’ climate plans

  Sierra Club BC, represented by Ecojustice, claims the province has not presented plans outlining how it intends to meet its 2025, 2040 and 2050 climate targets.

  Environment

  Oct 4, 2022
• Environmental groups give B.C. failing grades on old-growth forest protection plan

  B.C. environmental groups say the province is failing to make good on its 2020 promise to protect old-growth trees.

  Environment

  Sep 9, 2022
• New report suggests proposed old-growth deferral areas in B.C. are being logged

  According to Stand.earth, more than 55,000 hectares of proposed protected land is at "imminent risk" of being logged, is currently being logged or has already been cut.

  Environment

  Aug 30, 2022
• ‘This is illegal’: Charges pending against B.C. resident accused of feeding coyotes, bears

  The B.C. Conservation Officer Service said it intercepted a person last Friday who was suspected of feeding dangerous wild animals on a popular trail network in West Vancouver.

  Environment

  May 17, 2022
• B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says

  A recently published paper concludes that mining companies have been able to amend their original operating conditions in ways that can have serious effects on water resources.

  Environment

  May 12, 2022
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• Landslide caused by melting B.C. glacier created massive tsunami, destroyed salmon habitat: study

  The 2020 slide was detected by earthquake sensors at stations around the world including in Germany, Japan and Australia, said the study published in Geophysical Research Letters.

  Environment

  Mar 30, 2022
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• B.C. developing plan to protect drinking water, ecosystems

  B.C. is recovering from severe flooding and landslides last fall, which followed a summer of sweltering heat, drought and destructive wildfires.

  Environment

  Jan 25, 2022