The Ancient Forest Alliance is renewing its call on the BC government to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to protect old-growth forests.
Shocking photos and drone footage reveal the destruction of rare, big-tree old-growth forests on northern Vancouver Island in Quatsino Sound, highlighting the urgent need for dedicated funding to enable both temporary logging deferrals and permanent, Indigenous-led protected areas initiatives.
MP Patrick Weiler Introduces Motion to Launch the $82 million Old-Growth Protection Fund and to End Old-Growth Log and Wood Product Exports in Canada.
Thanks to all 200 of you who attended our Earth Week event in late April at St. Mary’s Church in Metchosin. Together, we raised almost $2000 through donations and sales, all of which will go toward protecting the remaining endangered ancient forests of BC!
Devil’s club is one of the most dreaded banes of the coastal bushwhacker. Towering to over 16 feet (5 metres) high, this plant sports huge, maple-esque leaves and wicked spines coated in irritating oils.
Happy Earth Day from AFA! ? Here’s what the Earth Day 2023 theme, “Invest in Our Planet”, means to us.
Check out this interactive article by Global News, which highlights a new economic model dubbed the “nature economy”, showing how leaving ancient forests standing is more profitable than cutting them down.
Deer fern is abundant in the coastal rainforest. Read on to learn more about these special rainforest dwellers.
Please join us for a free night of insightful presentations and a special photo show on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 from 7–9pm to celebrate Earth Week.
A sure sign of spring on the west coast is the emergence of the spectacular western skunk cabbage.
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