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A white fawn lily, with its oblong petals and vibrant yellow pistil and stamen, hangs delicately.

Thank you to these businesses and artists for their support!

We’d like to take the opportunity to extend a massive thank you to the following businesses and artists for recently supporting the old-growth campaign.
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CTV News: Carmanah Valley Sitka Spruce Climb

See this CTV News video coverage of AFA staff and professional arborists at Bartlett Tree Experts who locate and climb the largest Sitka spruce tree in BC’s famed Carmanah Valley.
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Victoria Buzz: BC environmentalists climb and measure Carmanah Valley’s largest Sitka spruce tree

In recognition of Earth Month, members of AFA decided they would showcase one of Vancouver Island’s largest old-growth giants by climbing and measuring it, and capturing drone footage of the process.
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Conservationists locate and climb the largest Sitka spruce tree in BC’s famed Carmanah Valley

Spectacular drone footage and photos reveal climbers more than 20 stories in the air in the “hydra-like” canopy of an old-growth Sitka spruce, highlighting the incredible grandeur of old-growth forests in British Columbia during Earth Week.
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AFA’s TJ Watt to Present at TEDxVictoria on May 15!

Catch Ancient Forest Alliance Photographer and Campaigner TJ Watt at the TEDxVictoria event on May 15th! Tickets still available.
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Fawn Lily

A graceful straight stem, curving elegantly at the top like a tiny streetlamp with beams of golden light spilling down — the fawn lily is such a picturesque beauty, that once seen, it will never be forgotten.
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Thank you to our incredible business supporters!

We’d like to take the opportunity to extend a massive thank you to the following businesses for recently supporting the old-growth campaign.
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International Day of Forests: Conservation groups alarmed that BC is backsliding on Old-Growth Forest Policy Progress

AFA and EEA are concerned the BC government is backsliding on its previous policy progress to ensure a paradigm shift in the management of old-growth forests in BC.
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Thank you for helping us surpass our 14th birthday goal!

Thank you for celebrating Ancient Forest Alliance's 14th birthday and helping us raise $16,427 for the old-growth campaign!
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Flores Island Tyson

Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Announce Protected Conservancies Proposal in Clayoquot Sound

Major tracts of the finest old-growth forests in BC are included in the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations' proposed Provincial Conservancies network.
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