A sea of green old-growth in the Central Walbran Valley

Recent Updates on Old-Growth Deferrals in BC

Great news — the logging deferral in the Central Walbran valley was extended last year until March 2024 and the deferral at Fairy Creek has now been extended as well until February 2025.

A man in a red jacket stands beside a massive western redcedar trunk in an old-growth forest.

CanGeo: “Big tree hunters: saving the last untouched* areas of the planet”

How a niche British Columbia-based community is working to bring attention to the importance of old-growth forests.

A man in a blue jacket stands beside a fallen western redcedar.

Old-growth cedars harvested because of database errors, says environmental group

AFA is urging the province to make changes to its forest mapping process after documenting a recent clear cut on northern Vancouver Island.

A man in a blue jacket stands inside the base of a logged western redcedar in the middle of a massive clearcut on northern Vancouver Island.

The Guardian: Images of felled ancient tree a ‘gut-punch’, old-growth experts say

Shocking photos of chopped-down tree in western Canada highlights flaws in plan to protect forest from loggers, activists say.

A man in a red jacket stands beside the base of a fallen western redcedar among a giant clearcut of hundreds other old-growth trees.

Ancient Forest Alliance renews call for provincial funds to defer old-growth logging

The Ancient Forest Alliance is renewing its call on the BC government to commit hundreds of millions of dollars to protect old-growth forests.

An old-growth grove is pierced by sunbeams coming through the trees

How a new ‘nature economy’ is transforming the fight for BC’s ancient forests

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.

A humpback whale breaching.

Indigenous funding model is a win-win for ecosystems and local economies in Canada

First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii of Canada, have successfully invested in conservation initiatives that have benefited ecosystems while also increasing communities’ well-being over the past 15 years.

SALMON PARKS: Inside a movement to conserve Pacific Northwest old growth

The Seattle Times covers The Nuchatlaht and Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations' efforts to establish a number of Salmon Parks in their unceded territories that would protect hundreds of square kilometres of ancient forests, salmon watersheds, and previously logged areas in need of restoration.

A male Williamson's Sapsucker clinging to a Pine Tree

Sapsucker housing crisis: endangered woodpecker ‘condos’ are being clear cut

Almost two decades after the Williamson’s sapsucker was listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act, the BC government continues to sanction logging in the bird’s old-growth forest critical habitat.

Two northern spotted owls sit side-by-side on a branch

BC extends ban on old-growth logging for two years to assist endangered spotted owl’s recovery

On Friday, the province announced it had extended the suspension of old-growth logging activity in the Fraser Canyon's Spuzzum and Utzilus watersheds for two more years to help with the recovery of the critically endangered spotted owl.