Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner TJ Watt stands next to Canada's 9th-widest Douglas-fir tree
May 30 2018

Canada’s Ninth-Widest Douglas-fir Cut Down in Old-Growth Forest Auctioned Off by BC Government’s Logging Agency

Check out our media release about the cutting of Canada's ninth-widest Douglas-fir tree in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni, despite BC Timber Sales – the BC government's logging agency which auctioned off the cutblock – having a policy which is meant to protect exceptionally large trees. The AFA is now redoubling its efforts to pressure the BC government to direct their logging agency to stop issuing old-growth cutblocks in BC, to implement a Big Tree Protection Order to protect BC’s biggest trees and grandest groves, and most importantly, to develop comprehensive, science-based legislation to protect endangered old-growth forest ecosystems across the province while ensuring a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.

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May 30 2018

Thanks to Everyone who Helped Make our Vancouver Spring Social and Fundraiser a Success!

Thank you to all of our Vancouver supporters and the local Vancouver businesses who donated toward our Spring Social and Fundraiser on May 16! Because of your generous support we raised nearly $4000, pushing us just over half way to our $20 000 fundraising goal for Sept 1! Read on for more details. 

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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness walks beside an enormous
May 29 2018

NDP under fire for allowing old growth logging near Port Alberni

WATCH more CHEK News coverage about the growing outrage in BC after one of Canada’s widest old-growth Douglas-fir trees was cut down in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni.  The piece features interviews from BC Green Party MLA and forest critic Adam Olsen, the AFA's TJ Watt, and Forest Minister Doug Donaldson.

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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner TJ Watt next to Canada's 9th-widest Douglas-fir tree
May 28 2018

Ancient Forest Alliance calls for end to old-growth logging in Nahmint Valley

WATCH: CHEK News video coverage of the 9th-widest Douglas-fir tree, recently felled in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni, and see interviews with the AFA's TJ Watt and Andrea Inness and the Port Alberni Watershed-Forest Alliance's Mike Stini.  

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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness walks beside an enormous
May 28 2018

People are furious about the destruction of these old growth giants. And you won’t believe who’s approving it.

Andrea Inness, a forest campaigner with Ancient Forest Alliance, and several other people went on an expedition on May 6, to the Nahmint Valley, which is about an hour outside of Port Alberni on logging roads. Once there, they were horrified to find massive, centuries-old red cedar and Douglas fir trees being cut down.

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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness stands atop Canada's 9th-widest Douglas-fir tree
May 28 2018

Old growth logging intensifies in Nahmint Valley

Check out this article from the Nuu-chah-nulth newspaper, Ha-Shilth-Sa, about the massive BC Timber Sales-approved logging happening right now in the Nahmint Valley and the cutting of Canada's ninth-widest Douglas-fir tree (compared to the trees listed on the BC Big Tree Registry). The article includes quotes from old-growth protection advocate Brenda Sayers of the Hupacasath First Nation (one of the Nations in whose territory the logging is taking place).  

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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness walks beside an enormous
May 18 2018

Massive Cutting of Canada’s Grandest Old-Growth Forests Coordinated by BC Government’s Logging Agency – Near Record-Sized Douglas-firs Found in Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island

Check out our media release about BC Timber Sales issuing cutblocks in some of Earth's grandest old-growth forest. Hundreds of hectares are being logged at breakneck speeds right now in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni, including thousands of old-growth western redcedars - some 4.3 meters (14 feet) in diameter - and exceptionally large Douglas-firs. BC's 5th and 9th widest Douglas-fir trees, according to the BC Big Tree Registry, were found on the expedition to the area.  

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Former co-Leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (1995 to 2009) Jeanette Fitzsimons
May 3 2018

New Zealand Shows the Way for BC to End Old-Growth Logging

Check out this news media release where the former co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand (1995 to 2009), Jeanette Fitzsimons, who successfully worked for an old-growth logging ban in that country by 2001, says the same can and should be done in British Columbia. This follows AFA's Executive Director Ken Wu's recent trip to New Zealand in April after speaking at a series of forestry and green building conferences about the importance of protecting BC's endangered old-growth forests while halting the importation of old-growth wood from BC into New Zealand.

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