
CBC Radio — “On The Island with Gregor Craigie”: Interview with Ken Wu
Listen to this interview with Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's Ken Wu, speaking about the significance of the draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework.

‘Potential paradigm shift’: Activists are hopeful for BC’s new environmental protections
BC’s government is implementing further steps to protect the province’s at-risk environment through a new biodiversity and ecosystem health framework.

The Narwhal: A billion dollars for nature in BC as long-awaited agreement is signed
The tripartite nature agreement comes with new and old funding to protect old-growth forests as well as species at risk.

CHEK News: BC signs ‘historic’ $1B agreement to protect lands and waters
In a historic agreement between the federal and provincial governments, over $1 billion has been allocated to protect 30% of BC’s lands and waters by 2030.

The Georgia Strait: “Conservation financing is a game-changer for BC’s old-growth forests”
Read this op-ed by Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's Ken Wu discussing the new conservation financing mechanism announced by Premier David Eby and the BC NDP last week.

The Times Colonist: BC’s $300M old-growth fund puts First Nations ‘in the driver’s seat’
$300-million investment aims to save BC's old-growth forests by offering First Nations sustainable economic alternatives to industrial logging.

The Canadian Press: Poor data hinders B.C. old-growth logging deferrals, advocates say
Irreplaceable ancient forests that should meet criteria for interim protection are being left open to logging in British Columbia due to outdated and inaccurate government data, advocates and an ecologist who advised the province say.

The Independent: Rare tree hunter in Canada finds ‘freak of nature’ 1,000-year-old cedar
An explorer who focuses on location and preserving old-growth trees has encountered what is one of the oldest old-growth trees ever documented in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

The Washington Post: ‘Freak of nature’ tree is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer
TJ Watt has spent half his life as a forest explorer, a self-described “tree hunter” in British Columbia. He wades deep into endangered forests to find pristine towering trees that are hundreds of years old and massively wide but have never been photographed or documented.

Massive red cedar resembling rock wall discovered in Ahousaht territory
Giving the illusion of a rock wall, a massive western red cedar tree in Ahousaht territory near Tofino in Clayoquot Sound has been named one of Canada’s most impressive trees by conservationists on Vancouver Island.

