Forests on the March

Be sure to check out AFA photographer TJ Watt's photo of a sitka spruce forest near Nitinat Lake in the latest issue of Scientific American magazine! The article speaks with Dr. Sally Aitken of the UBC Faculty of Forestry on her work to help trees adapt to a rapidly changing climate. Sally has also helped with the recent revival of the BC Big Tree Registry as well!

Environmentalists fight to save tract of old-growth Island trees

New article about the fight to protect old-growth in the Central Walbran Valley around the renowned Castle Grove.

Ancient Forest Alliance's (AFA) Jackie Korn stands amongst incredible old-growth redcedar trees in proposed cutblock 4412 in the Central Walbran Ancient Forest.

VIDEO: Vancouver Island ancient forests at risk

Here's last night's Global TV interview with AFA's Ken Wu about the threat to the old-growth forests of the Central Walbran and Edinburgh Mountain Ancient Forests, featuring great photos and video clips taken by AFA's TJ Watt.

Add ancient forests to protected lands: activists

Environmental advocates are calling on the province to extend the protected areas in southern Vancouver Island to two ancient forest sites threatened by logging.

AFA’s "Climbing Big Lonely Doug" video on Maclean’s "Canada148"

Maclean’s magazine has featured the Ancient Forest Alliance's video on climbing "Big Lonely Doug", discovered in 2014 by AFA campaigners to be the 2nd largest Douglas-fir tree in Canada - but standing alone since 2012 when Teal-Jones clearcut all the ancient trees around Big Lonely Doug. Our video is one of the 148 videos of Canada’s most incredible people, places and experiences, to celebrate Canada's 148th birthday.

War in the Woods II ?

Here is Focus Magazine on the battle for the Walbran Valley over the years since the early 1990's, with a potential resurgence in protests as Teal-Jones seeks to log in the largely intact central valley.

Walbran Valley war

Here is a Global TV piece on proposed logging in the Central Walbran Valley by Teal-Jones, a Surrey-based company threatening endangered old-growth forests in several areas.

Logging company takes heat for cutting old growth trees in the Great Bear Rainforest

TimberWest has been fragmenting the extremely rare forest types in the southern Great Bear Rainforest which include stands of endangered old-growth Douglas-firs, and is being criticized by enviro-groups.

Return to Sonora: TimberWest in the Great Bear Rainforest

Here's a blog by Greenpeace campaigner Eduardo Sousa about TimberWest logging endangered forest types in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Old-growth logging in Walbran could trigger protests: group

The Teal Jones Group has drawn logging plans for potential logging in the heart of the unprotected Central Walbran Ancient Forest. While they have not applied for any cutting or road-building permits yet from the Forest Service, they have surveyed some potential cutblocks and roads as part of their proposal.