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Victoria Outreach Intern Position – Apply Now!
The AFA is looking for a volunteer intern for 2 months to work at least 15-30 hours a week to staff our holiday season booth to assist in the sale of calendars, cards, and posters sales in December, and to assist in outreach to our supporters to help protect BC's old-growth forests. Interns will also gain insights about important forest policies and environmental campaigning skills. This position starts ASAP. To apply, please contact Joan Varley: joan@15.222.255.145
Global TV video: Logging protests on Cortes Island
Follow to the link to watch the news video coverage.
Human shield stalls Cortes logging for third day
A Cortes Island blockade of Island Timberlands went into its third day Thursday as swelling ranks of environmentalists, residents and their children maintained a human shield against the logging company’s crews and equipment.
Echo Lake Ancient Forest – Follow-Up Letters Needed! Please WRITE!
These unprotected forests are within a Woodlot License, a smaller logging tenure on Crown lands, which the BC government states is not subject to the creation of new Old-Growth Management Areas. However, it is within the government's power to shift the Woodlot License boundaries to another second-growth forest area among the thousands of hectares of Crown lands in the region.
Will logging of ancient forest be halted before it can begin?
Residents of Cortes Island have formed a blockade to stop the BC based timber company, Island Timberlands (I.T.), from beginning logging operations in one of BC’s last stands of old growth coastal Douglas-fir forest. For over four years, community members have attempted to work with the company to develop an ecosystem-based approach to forestry. As road-building equipment moves in, the community is now left with no choice but to stand in it’s path to defend these ecologically significant forests.
Wildstands – A Cortes Community Alliance
As Island Timberlands' incursions on to Cortes Island heats up the battle to protect its old-growth forests heat up, please follow their campaign by going to their website: https://wildstands.wordpress.com/
Elphinstone Logging Focus – Wilson Creek forest under threat
Citizens on the Sunshine Coast in Roberts Creek are fighting against imminent logging in the Wilson Creek Forest - please visit the website of Elphinstone Logging Focus for more details at: https://www.loggingfocus.org/
Cortes Island citizens prepare for logging protests
Lanky, clean cut Cec Robinson is pretty sure the RCMP has been following him on Cortes Island. What danger does this quiet oyster farmer and family man pose? He intends to defend his island from industrial logging by Island Timberlands because he thinks it is the right thing to do for his community and for the planet
Alberni groups protest McLaughlin logging
More than 80 people gathered at Echo Centre Monday for a meeting hosted by the Watershed-Forest Alliance in its quest to protect an old-growth forest at McLaughlin Ridge and in the China Creek Watershed. Alberni-Pacific Rim MLA Scott Fraser and retired government scientist Doug Janz were guest speakers at the event. The pair were resolute: that the forest range needs to be protected with enhanced regulations.
VICTORIA: Monday, Nov.26th – EAGLES, ANCIENT FORESTS, and ELECTIONS!
Date: Monday, Nov. 26th, 2012 Time: 7:00-9:00 pm Location: Ambrosia Centre, 638 Fisgard St., VICTORIA. *By donation (suggested $5 to $20) "The Natural History of BC's Bald Eagles and the World's Largest Eagle Congregating Area: the Harrison-Chehalis Rivers" - with David Hancock "Echo Lake, BC's Endangered Ancient Forests, and the Pre-Election Campaign to Protect Them! An Ancient Forest Alliance Campaign Overview" - with the AFA