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Thank you to our corporate matching donors!

Mar 5 2025/in Announcements, Thank You

We’d like to take this opportunity to offer a special thank you to our Benevity donors!

The ability to receive vital funding through corporate matching programs, such as with Benevity, is another positive aspect of becoming a registered charity.

Corporate matching is when companies financially match employees’ donations to a specific charity, such as AFA. Many employers offer this as a way to prioritize and encourage corporate social responsibility. So, when an employee makes a donation, their employer will match it.

Increase your impact through your workplace and check with your HR team to see if your employer offers corporate matching today!

Two people stand on a rock by the Fraser River in Kanaka Bar territory.

VIDEO: Inside Kanaka Bar’s Conservation Plan: Protecting Rare Ecosystems & Indigenous Culture

Feb 21 2025/in News Coverage, Video

We’re excited to share an amazing new video with you featuring the Kanaka Bar Indian Band’s proposed T’eqt’aqtn Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA), which is located in the Fraser Canyon about 3 hours from Vancouver, BC. The IPCA will protect 320 km2 of land – or about 98% of Kanaka’s unceded territory – including 120 km2 of some of the rarest and most diverse old-growth in BC.

Hear from Kanaka members as they discuss their vision and the ecological and cultural significance of this initiative, which is also one of the most advanced IPCA proposals being considered for legislated protection in the province.

Alongside our partners at the Nature-Based Solutions Foundation and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, AFA has been working for years to provide key support from start to finish to help develop and establish the T’eqt’aqtn IPCA (zuminstm e tmíxʷ kt ƛ̓əq̓ƛ̓áq̓tn̓/“We care for the lands of T’eqt’aqtn”). This includes funding stewardship initiatives and capacity for land-use planning, recruiting large-scale philanthropic funding, and purchasing private lands of high conservation and cultural value.

Be sure to watch and SHARE this video far and wide!

VIDEO: Old-Growth Policy Update: February 2025

Feb 19 2025/in News Coverage, Video

Update on BC’s Old-Growth & Protected Areas Policies 🚨 Please SPEAK UP and help shape their outcome! Send a Message via our NEW take-action page.

The newly re-elected BC NDP government released its mandate letters earlier this month and disappointingly, old-growth forest and nature protection was only mentioned in passing. So, you might be left wondering: What needs to happen now to secure lasting protections for ancient forests and other endangered ecosystems in BC?

To truly safeguard these areas, BC must develop a Provincial Protected Areas Strategy (PAS) — where they proactively work with First Nations to protect priority ecosystems, such as those most endangered and least protected, including the last big-tree old-growth forests in the province.

Additionally, the province must:
🌲 Develop science-based targets to protect all ecosystems, known as “Ecosystem-Based Targets”.
💰 Provide “solutions space” funding for First Nations to defer logging in old-growth forests where they currently generate revenues from timber operations.
🛑 Close logging loopholes in conservation reserves like Old-Growth Management Areas (OGMAs) and Wildlife Habitat Areas (WHAs).
🪵 Implement greater incentives and regulations to ensure a sustainable, value-added, modernized, second-growth forest industry.
🌎 Develop a Conservation-Based Economy Strategy of incentives and other support for new businesses to take advantage of an expanding protected areas system in order to scale up a modernized, sustainable and diversified economy.

Now is the time to speak up and demand action! It only takes one minute to make your voice heard.

📢 Using our NEWLY UPDATED 2025 TAKE-ACTION TOOL, you can send a message to BC’s elected decision-makers today calling for the protection of old-growth forests and endangered ecosystems in BC.

Thank you for standing with us!

NOW HIRING: Forest Campaigner

Mar 3 2026

The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is hiring a passionate Forest Campaigner to join our team and help protect old-growth forests in BC!

Employment

It’s AFA’s 16th Birthday!

Feb 26 2026

On Tuesday, February 24th, we’re celebrating 16 years of working together with you, our community, to ensure the permanent protection of old-growth forests in BC. To mark the date, will you chip in $16 or more to support our work?

Announcements

Budget 2026 Shortchanges Nature Protection and Sustainable Forestry Transition At a Critical Time for British Columbia

Feb 20 2026

BC’s Budget 2026 fails to provide the funding needed to secure lasting protection for endangered ecosystems and at-risk old-growth forests in the province.

Media Release