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2024 Activity Report & Financials

Check out Ancient Forest Alliance's (AFA) Activity Report & Financials to find out what YOU helped us achieve in 2024.
Announcements

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!

Diversity is a defining feature of old-growth forests, whose unparalleled structural complexity develops over centuries to provide habitats for thousands of species, many of which live nowhere else. Learn more about these incredible rainforest ecosystems and take action to protect them!
Announcements

Bigleaf Maple Flowers

In the coastal rainforests, you know it's officially spring when the bigleaf maples start to flower with their subtle yellow-green colouring! Learn more about these lovely flowers here.
Educational

Thank You for Celebrating 15 Years with Us 🌲

Thank you to everyone who attended and/or supported the AFA's 15th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser on May 1st at the beautiful Gorge Pavilion! Thanks to your generosity, we raised over $13,000 to support our efforts to protect endangered old-growth forests in BC!
Events
Ancient Forest Alliance Campaign Director TJ Watt stands beside a giant old-growth redcedar tree in the unprotected Jurassic Grove near Port Renfrew in Pacheedaht territory.

Earth Day — Environmental Groups to BC Government: Go Forward, Not Backward on Old-Growth Protection and Modernization of BC Forestry

This Earth Day, AFA and EEA are issuing a strong warning to the BC government about potential commercial logging in protected areas and calling on it to refocus on incomplete measures to protect old-growth forests, implement its draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework, and ensure a transition to a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry.
Media Release
BC's ninth widest Douglas-fir cut down by BC Timber Sales (BCTS) in the Nahmint Valley in 2018.

BC Timber Sales (BCTS) Review Submission – AFA & EEA

AFA & EEA's BC Timber Sales review submission: Protect old-growth, fund Indigenous stewardship, and build BC’s sustainable forest future.
Announcements

Western Trillium

Western trillium are fleeting, charismatic flowers signifying the arrival of spring in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.
Educational

SOLD OUT: AFA’s 15th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser on May 1st!

We hope you'll join us for our 15th Anniversary Celebration & Fundraiser on May 1st in Victoria!
Announcements

What are Ecosystem-Based Protection Targets, and why does BC need them?

To truly safeguard biodiversity, BC needs “Ecosystem-Based Protection Targets” for every ecosystem type—rainforests, grasslands, dry forests, wetlands, etc.—on a scale large enough to ensure their long-term health and stability.
Announcements

Thank you to these foundation donors for their generosity!

Thank you to these foundations for their generosity toward Ancient Forest Alliance and the old-growth campaign.
Thank You

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