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Thursday, December 10, 2015
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Patagonia Vancouver store, 1994 W. 4th Avenue, Kitsilano

Join members of the Ancient Forest Alliance and their hosts from Patagonia Vancouver for a screening of Darryl Augustine's 17 minute film "The Ancient Forest Alliance", some smaller videos including "Climbing Big Lonely Doug" and "Save the Central Walbran Valley (with drone footage)", and a new slideshow presentation by Ancient Forest Alliance activists Ken Wu, TJ Watt, Hannah Carpendale, and Mike Grant on "Exploring and Protecting our Biggest Trees and Old-Growth Forests".

Admission: by donation
For more info contact: info@ancientforestalliance.org

Join and invite others on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1689628047987222/

Visit the AFA's Holiday Booths in VICTORIA and VANCOUVER - see here for details on locations, dates and times to purchase gifts and support the AFA this holiday season!

Check out what our motion-activated camera captured! This mother black bear and her cub in the endangered Lower Edinburgh Grove are seen checking out the Ancient Forest Alliance's camera and climbing up the enormous old-growth redcedar tree in an area that is threatened with logging by Teal Jones near Port Renfrew, in several clips and photos taken recently. Be sure to Send a Message to help protect this special forest at: www.BCForestMovement.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlMFpADt84c
 

Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC) Victoria: THANK YOU to the staff at MEC Victoria for voting to support the AFA through their 1% for the Planet contributions! We are extremely grateful for the continued support towards our current old-growth campaigns! See their website at www.MEC.ca

LUSH: Great thanks once again to LUSH (www.lush.ca) for their major support through their Charitable Giving Program, bolstering the AFA’s campaign for the establishment a New Protected Areas Fund in BC! We are so grateful to LUSH for their continued passion and support for the AFA’s work!

True North Goods: We are excited to be a new beneficiary of True North Goods (www.truenorthgoods.com), an outdoor goods and apparel company showing their dedication to protecting the outdoors for future generations to explore by donating a portion of all proceeds to the AFA!

The Province of BC is looking at establishing a new protected area in the "northern wetbelt" rainforest east of Prince George next to Slim Creek Provincial Park, and is soliciting feedback on a plan to protect the unique ecosystems of the beloved Ancient Forest (where thousands of people have now hiked the trails among the giant cedars).

PLEASE sign-on to a letter supporting a new protected area, including on an expanded scale based on science, at: https://goo.gl/6UpY9m

The Province is also accepting email comments on the plan; send your feedback to ancientforest@gov.bc.ca before Nov. 2, 4 p.m.

See here for more details on taking action to protect this area!

DATE: Friday, October 30, 2015
LOCATION: Duncan, BC
TIME & PLACE: Begins at 12:00 Noon at Trunk Road and Highway 1, then march down to Charles Hoey Park (by the train station)

Join forestry workers, environmentalists, unions, politicians, and diverse community members for a march and rally to end the export of raw logs and to support a sustainable, second-growth forest industry in BC.

Bring your friends and family!  Invite others and coordinate rides on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1693082370937511/

Organized by the Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC - see: www.PPWC.ca) with the support of the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA - see www.AncientForestAlliance.org).

Details HERE.  For more info contact Cam Shiel at camshiell78@gmail.com

Later this week, the short film 'Verge: Dancing a Scarred and Sacred Landscape' will be screening at the Planet in Focus Film Festival (https://planetinfocus.org) in Toronto. 'Verge' is a collaboration between filmmaker Leslie Kennah, choreographer Anna Kraulis, and the AFA's Hannah Carpendale, and features dancers moving through the magnificent Avatar Grove and the devastated clearcut landscape surrounding Big Lonely Doug, near Port Renfrew on southern Vancouver Island. The festival, which runs from Oct 21-25th, will feature a diversity of environmental films, workshops and other activities. 'Verge' will be screening alongside feature length film 'Puffin Patrol' on Sunday Oct 25 - for more details on the screening, visit https://planetinfocus.org/events/puffin-patrol/ 

**TICKET CONTEST: 2 free festival tickets are available for AFA supporters - for a chance to win one, please contact info@ancientforestalliance.org **

The Ancient Forest Alliance would like to thank Patagonia and Patagonia Vancouver for their major support through their grassroots environmental grant program, helping us to build an ancient forest movement across BC’s Lower Mainland!  See Patagonia’s website at: https://www.patagonia.com/ca and visit the Patagonia Vancouver store online at: https://www.patagonia.com/us/patagonia.go?assetid=96713

As the hot dry days of summer wind down, the Ancient Forest Alliance is gearing up for a busy fall season of expeditions, campaigns, and boardwalk/trail construction projects! We have a lot underway, but in particular we need your financial help for three major projects... READ MORE!