AFA Campaign Director Ken Wu sits atop a massive

Justifying environmental destruction

The company’s internet website is nothing more than a cutting and pasting of whatever out-of-context facts can be best used to justify the damage they continue to do to the environment.

A hiker walks through the giant trees of the Lower Avatar Grove.

AVATAR GROVE HIKE – Thursday, Aug. 25th

Meet 12:00 pm at the Coastal Kitchen Cafe in Port Renfrew ***NOTE - please park on the side street across from the Cafe to save the limited parking spaces for customers***. Hike will finish at 3pm

A woman in a teal hoodie stands beside massive bigleaf maple with octopus-like branches at Royal Roads.

Sat. Aug 27: Nature Walk and Fundraiser at GREATER VICTORIA’S FINEST ANCIENT FOREST

Nature Walk and Fundraiser with Victoria Natural History Society president Darren Copley and Royal BC Museum curator and entomologist Claudia Copley, and with the Ancient Forest Alliance’s Ken Wu and TJ Watt through the Spectacular ROYAL ROADS ANCIENT FOREST

Sumallo Grove

Sun. Aug 28: LOWER MAINLAND Ancient Forest WALK and FUNDRAISER in Manning Park’s Magnificent SUMALLO GROVE

Join Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners Ken Wu and TJ Watt and lichenologist Stu Crawford (tentative) on an easy nature walk and talk through one of the most incredible old-growth forests left in the Lower Mainland, the Sumallo Grove in Manning Provincial Park, through a grove that is one of the most diverse ancient forests in the province

2011 Tall Tree Music Festival - Port Renfrew

THANK YOU to the Tall Trees Society for their generous donation!

The 2011 Tall Tree Music Festival hosted in Port Renfrew was an amazing time and great success. Proceeds from the festival were generously donated to the Ancient Forest Alliance and local community projects.

Ancient Forest Alliance executive director Ken Wu

Old growth trees cut down in the Caycuse Valley

The old growth forest that was logged was conveniently located in an unprotected tract of old growth, surrounded by the protected Ungulate Wintering Range and an Old Growth Management Area. The Ungulate Wintering Range was designated by the Ministry of Forests to sustain black-tailed deer populations, while the Old Growth Management Area prohibits logging.

A giant old-growth redcedar in lush rainforest of Goldstream Park where the photography workshop will be held.

Ancient Forest & Nature Photography Workshop with the AFA’s TJ Watt!

Join the Ancient Forest Alliance’s award-winning photographer TJ Watt for a fun, hands-on photography workshop intended for novices and amateurs in the incredible old-growth forests of Goldstream Park!

Ancient Forest Alliance executive director Ken Wu

Clearcutting threatens black-tailed deer, activist says

A dwindling black-tailed deer population on the Island is further at risk after clearcutting near Caycuse Valley, according to Ken Wu, president of the Ancient Forest Alliance, who has called on the province to protect more old-growth forests.

An old-growth Douglas-fir stand was clearcut in June and July of this year in the Caycuse Valley south of Cowichan Lake and north of the Walbran Valley. The area was important deer wintering habitat.

Recent Old-Growth Clearcutting of Deer Wintering Habitat on Vancouver Island Documented and Posted on Youtube

The Ancient Forest Alliance has released a video clip documenting the recent clearcutting of an extremely rare old-growth Douglas fir forest on Vancouver Island that served as vital wintering habitat for the Island’s diminishing black-tailed deer population.

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Shaw TV: Avatar Grove & Eco-Tourism in Port Renfrew

The Shaw Daily television program heads out to visit the popular Avatar Grove with the AFA and takes a look at how business owners in Port Renfrew are starting to embrace eco-tourism as a new economic driver.