Mongabay

As logging intensifies forest fires, Wet’suwet’en fight to protect old growth

Members of Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia want to conserve a pristine old-growth watershed, Caas Tl’aat Twah, in its traditional territory. The nation has obtained a logging deferral for Caas ...
Environment News Service

Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans

Old-growth trees are already being cut to make way for a logging road in the Argonaut Valley of British Columbia, August 2020 (Photo by Charlotte Dawe / Wilderness Committee) VANCOUVER, British ...
Outside

In British Columbia, the Fight for Old Growth Rages On

The image on the photographer’s camera could be a scene from a dystopian film. In the muted light of dawn, an environmental activist sits chained to a tractor with a bicycle lock around his neck. A ...
Reuters

‘Sustainable’ logging operations are clear-cutting Canada’s climate-fighting forests

With its vast expanses of forest, Canada has the most “certified” sustainable timber operations of any nation, according to the nonprofit organizations that attest to the environmental soundness of ...
Mongabay

With British Columbia’s last old-growth at risk, government falters: Critics

If you liked this story, share it with other people. British Columbia’s ruling New Democratic Party last autumn pledged to conserve 353,000 hectares (1,363 square miles) of old-growth forest. But so ...