Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness walks beside an enormous

Eco-group files complaint over old-growth cuts

Times Colonist article about the complaint the AFA filed about the Nahmint Valley, which led to investigations by both the Ministry of Forests and the Forest Practices Board into potential non-compliance by BC Timber Sales.
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AFA's TJ Watt, Andrea Inness, and Former Executive Director Ken Wu were featured in a CBC news article about old-growth logging in B.C.'s coastal forests. The piece showcases endangered ancient trees and old-growth clearcutting in the Nahmint Valley.
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Old-growth logging threatens culture, says Nuu-chah-nulth tribal council

Check out this CBC article about the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council's recent statement, calling on the NDP provincial government to protect B.C.'s remaining ancient forests for both cultural and environmental reasons. Nuu-chah-nulth territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island is home to some of the province's largest remaining old-growth trees. But tribal council president Judith Sayers says the province needs to stop — or at least slow down — the rate at which they are disappearing.
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Fighting to protect B.C.’s ancient forests

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.
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International call for action to save B.C.’s old-growth rainforests

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.
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Destinations: Port Renfrew

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…
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Environmentalists want old growth on west coast of Island protected

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,…
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Jane Morden of the Port Alberni Watershed Forest Alliance photographs giant Douglas-fir trees in the Cameron Valley near Port Alberni.

B.C. moves to protect forests ‘jam-packed’ with species at risk

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.

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Clayoquot Sound protesters at a blockade in 1993.

It’s not safe forever: Clayoquot Sound logging protesters reflect on 25 years

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.

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223 international scientists call for urgent action to protect British Columbia’s endangered temperate rainforests

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

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