Check it out! The AFA's TJ Watt and former Executive Director Ken Wu were featured on CBC's "The National" showcasing an endangered ancient forest and recent old-growth clearcutting near Hadikin Lake on Vancouver Island.
On Oct 25th, we joined Sierra Club BC, local government, and tourism industry representatives outside the BC legislature to deliver the names of more than 185,000 concerned people from around the world to the BC government, all calling on the NDP to save BC's last endangered ancient rainforests. The international call for protection of BC’s old-growth forests is echoed by tens of thousands of British Columbia residents who have already signed petitions launched by the AFA, Sierra Club BC, Wilderness Committee Conservation North, and other groups.
Pacific YachtingSeptember 20th, 2018 With a new well-protected marina, Wild Renfrew is the perfect stopover for cruising the west coast of Vancouver Island Pacific Gateway Marina, built on the south shore of Port San Juan in Port Renfrew, is so new it doesn’t show up on even the most updated charts. It’s still a marina […]
Forest company says it has delayed plans a year to listen to local concerns Environmentalists are hoping to halt proposed logging of old-growth forest slated for the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. Recently, the Ancient Forest Alliance enlisted the support of the local council from Tahsis in efforts to protect the McKelvie Valley. The valley […]
The Ancient Forest Alliance gives commendation and thanks to the BC NDP for protecting 1,000 hectares of critically endangered Coastal Douglas fir forests. It's an important step toward conserving more of BC's endangered forests found both on private and public lands.
CHEK TV has done a news piece about the 25-year anniversary of the launch of the Clayoquot Sound mass blockades, where 12,000 people took part in protests near Tofino in Nuu-chah-nulth territory starting on July 5, 1993. The story includes comments by former Friends of Clayoquot Sound campaign organizer Valerie Langer and Ancient Forest Alliance executive director Ken Wu, along with footage of recent, destructive old-growth logging in the Nahmint Valley.
A total of 223 scientists from nine countries have signed a letter urging the provincial government to take immediate action to protect B.C.'s remaining temperate rain forests! “BC’s temperate rainforests are globally rare, they offer habitat for many imperiled species and, globally, the vast majority of these unique rainforests has already been logged. Protection of remaining intact tracts of these carbon-rich, climate saving forests is a global responsibility." - Dr. Dominick DellaSala, chief scientist at the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon
Veteran B.C. forester, Anthony Britneff, weighs in on the continued logging of ancient giants and the B.C. government’s attempt to skew the stats on how much old growth forest remains. "It is incumbent upon our provincial government to stop the arithmetic trickery and to bring intellectual honesty and scientific thinking to a resolution of the old-growth issue on Vancouver Island."
Check out this article which explains why statistics released by the BC NDP about the protected status of old-growth forests on BC's coast are misleading and how this is impacts efforts to protect the last of BC's coastal giants.
B.C. Timber Sales is reviewing its best management practices for legacy trees with the intent of strengthening a policy brought into question by old-growth logging near Port Alberni. The Crown agency (BCTS) and the B.C. government have been roundly criticized in recent weeks by conservationists and local First Nations for continuing to allow logging of ancient fir and cedar in the Nahmint Valley.
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