Aerial images captured in June 2021 highlight the brutal impacts of old-growth logging in the Caycuse watershed in the Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island, BC. The massive 33-hectare clearcut from Teal Jones, where the now-famed “before & after” images were taken, is shocking in scale. Fresh old-growth logging can be seen in a number of adjacent cutblocks as well, which were approved in early 2021 by the BC NDP despite its own independent old-growth science panel, the Technical Advisory Panel’s recommendations to defer logging in the most at-risk forests.
The BC government must begin to provide funding for First Nations and forest-dependent communities to expand protected areas, diversify their economies, and rapidly transition to a more sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry.
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