AFA's Ken Wu and Friends of Stillwater Bluffs' Jason Addy holding a press conference with the Times Colonist and CTV at the Sooke Potholes calling for a BC Park Acquisition Fund.

Eco group urges B.C. to re-form park fund – Organization highlights CRD’s model

Using a backdrop of parkland bought by the Capital Regional District, an environmental group on Thursday called on the provincial government to set up a park acquisition fund similar to that of the CRD.

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Gary Murdoch stands beside flagged redcedar trees in the Cathedral Grove Canyon. Environmentalists are calling on the government to create a BC Park Acquisition Fund which would help purchase old-growth forests and sensitive ecosystems on private lands.

B.C. conservationists call for provincial park acquisition fund

Forest advocates from all over the coast press the B.C. government for a conservation fund, urging private owner Island Timberlands to delay logging until they can purchase priority lands

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Environmentalists Call for a BC Park Acquisition Fund and for Island Timberlands to Back Off until Contentious Lands can be Purchased for Protection

Conservationists are standing in solidarity today calling on coastal logging giant Island Timberlands to back off from their plans to log forests with high recreational and environmental values, including old-growth forests and sensitive ecosystems, while calling on the BC government to help purchase the company’s contentious private lands.

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