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A forest advisory council has recommended shifting B.C.’s forest regime towards more local decision-making. But some experts warn the plan lacks teeth and risks putting fragile forest ecosystems at risk.

Ancient Forest Alliance warns that government-commissioned review of forestry in BC fails to address the need to quickly transition to a value-added, second-growth industry.

Premier David Eby says logging the province's old-growth forests for pulp is not an option, as the BC government looks for ways to help a pulp mill closing on Vancouver Island.

BC Timber Sales has ended a policy protecting remnant old-growth in northwest B.C., citing First Nations’ positions, sparking concerns from ecologists and residents.

A leaked technical review prepared for a group of First Nations claims British Columbia is greatly overestimating how much timber it can sustainably harvest in a push for short-term economic gains. 

Local governments on Vancouver Island are frustrated after legislative changes are not coming to the law governing how private forest lands are managed in BC.

Conservation groups and First Nations are calling on the B.C. government to act on five-year-old promises to overhaul the logging industry to protect old-growth forests.

On the five-year anniversary of the Old Growth Strategic Review (OGSR), Ancient Forest Alliance urgently calls on the BC government to take action to protect old-growth forests and highlights images that expose ongoing old-growth logging.

In a letter to the Ancient Forest Alliance and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, Minister of Environment and Parks Tamara Davidson confirmed that there’s no commercial logging happening in provincial parks and it isn’t permitted under the BC Parks Act. The letter comes following reports of potential commercial salvage logging and fuel load reduction projects happening in these parks.