Ancient Forest Alliance
Oct 24 2013

Groups protest logging in Qualicum Beach watershed

Extremely rare groves of oldgrowth Coastal Douglas-firs, of which only 1% remain, constitute much of these contentious forest lands, they say. "These corporate private lands were previously regulated to public land standards for over half a century in exchange for the BC government's granting of free Crown land logging rights to the companies," said Ken Wu, executive director of the Ancient Forest Alliance. "What has happened is that the regulations on private lands were removed recently, while the companies were still allowed to keep their Crown land logging rights."

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Oct 23 2013

Rally stands for ancient trees

CTV News Clip on the rally at Cathedral Grove against Island Timberlands: https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1029275

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Oct 23 2013

Protesters target old-growth logging on Island

"Protesters from the Ancient Forest Alliance, the Port Alberni Watershed-Forest Alliance and several other groups unfurled a banner reading 'Hands off old growth' and handed leaflets to visitors stopping at Cathedral Grove on Highway 4. Conservationists are calling on Island Timberlands to suspend plans to log old-growth forests while asking the provincial government to restore a park acquisition fund, and earmark $40 million a year for a decade to go into the fund."

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Oct 23 2013

Rally Against Logging Old-Growth Forests

Coast News - "Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance says the deregulation of large areas of old growth forest by the government in 2004 has enabled the company to start logging areas that animals like elk and deer, and endangered species like the Queen Charlotte Goshawk, rely upon for survival...'...they’ve got to back off from the areas that were previously designated for protection. These areas are the ecological gems; the high conservation-value forests and extremely rare old growth forests where deer and elk spend the winter. Those areas were all off-limits to logging until the government removed those environmental laws just a few years ago.'"

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Oct 20 2013

Are big-five forest firms about to get a windfall?

The Province - "Author Ben Parfitt is among those concerned about a small number of large forest companies gaining even greater control over B.C.’s publicly-owned forests."

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Ancient Forest Alliance
Sep 28 2013

Anti-logging blockade aims to protect Chilcotin moose

CBC News - "Members of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation have set up a blockade to stop logging southwest of Williams Lake, saying they're worried about declining moose populations in the Chilcotin. Chief Joe Alphonse, chair of the Tsilhqot'in government, says an area known as the "Big Meadow" was once an ideal moose habitat covered with lush forests of pine."

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The Local - Cover Shot
Sep 26 2013

Ancient trees, historic sites at risk in Roberts Creek Headwaters Forest

The Local newspaper - "Local environmental groups are calling on the BC government to establish an ecological reserve on approximately 15 hectares of endangered old-growth forest located on public (Crown) land at the headwaters of Roberts Creek. BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has applied to log DK045, the mid elevation old-growth yellow-cedar forest, located about seven kilometres northeast of Roberts Creek village. The group contends the forest’s proximity to Highway 101 makes it a high potential eco-tourism destination. With the sale of the block delayed until March, 2014 as BCTS awaits the results of an ecological and cultural survey by Ministry of Forest researchers."

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A giant ancient yellow-cedar tree (left) and logging road location ribbon (right)
Sep 23 2013

Ancient Yellow-Cedar Forest at Risk in the Roberts Creek Headwaters Ancient Forest, Sunshine Coast, BC

Roberts Creek, BC - Local environmental groups are calling on the BC government to establish an Ecological Reserve on approximately 15 hectares of endangered old-growth forest located on public (Crown) land at the headwaters of Roberts Creek on BC’s Lower Sunshine Coast. The mid elevation forest, located about 7 kilometres northeast of the community Roberts Creek, is proposed to be logged by BC Timber Sales (BCTS).

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Aug 15 2013

War in the Woods mass arrests 20 years ago prompted lasting change

It is the quiet amid the chaos just as the logging trucks and police rolled in that Tzeporah Berman remembers acutely about the War in the Woods, the fight by environmentalists 20 years ago over Clayoquot Sound.  Every day for almost three months during the summer of 1993, Berman and hundreds of other protesters stared down the logging trucks destined for some of Canada's most pristine old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, B.C.

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Aug 15 2013

Twenty years after clash at Clayoquot Sound, activists see new wave of unrest on the horizon

Twenty years after a protest led to massive arrests on logging roads in Clayoquot Sound the organizers say a lot has changed – but a lot hasn’t, and they predict a new generation of activists may soon be on the barricades again.

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