BC Old Growth

• Leaked map suggests B.C. has approved less than half of proposed old-growth deferrals

  A report says a leaked map suggests the province has approved a pause for logging in less than half of the old-growth forests identified as being at risk of permanent loss.

  Environment

  Mar 8, 2024
  
• Old growth activists holding ‘day of action’ across B.C.

  On Thursday, 17 B.C. communities are holding gatherings in a bid to get the B.C. government to listen.

  Environment

  Sep 28, 2023
  
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• ‘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, 2023
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• British Columbia gets low grades from environmentalists on old-growth forest protection

  The groups say more than half of the most at-risk old-growth forests remain open to logging, which is about 1.44 million hectares or the equivalent of 3,600 Stanley Parks.

  Environment

  Mar 16, 2023
• Neil Young makes surprise appearance at B.C. old growth rally

  Canadian music legend Neil Young made a surprise appearance Saturday at an old-growth logging protest rally at the British Columbia legislature.

  Environment

  Feb 26, 2023
• B.C. introducing measures for old growth, forest stewardship with Indigenous collaboration

  The eight-point, $25-million plan will focus on Forest Landscape Planning tables that will drive improvement within old-growth management while incorporating Indigenous knowledge.

  Environment

  Feb 15, 2023
• 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
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• Save Old Growth on the defence after B.C. judge likens tactics to ‘using people as cannon fodder’

  A B.C. judge wrote that protester Ian Schortinghuis "appears to be the type of person these groups entice and basically use as sacrificial lambs for their causes."

  Environment

  Aug 29, 2022
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• B.C. lawyer for Crown says stay application in old-growth logging case is flawed

  The RCMP have arrested people for allegedly violating an injunction against blockades in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island.

  Environment

  Feb 10, 2022