National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Crows are my jam.
So reads the first line of Colleen Wilson’s Instagram account.
The Campbell River photographer isn’t alone in her obsession with the jet-black birds — both common as muck and extraordinary in equal measure.
Continue reading Campbell River’s Crowtographer captures one of nature’s most misunderstood birdsNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A caravan of seniors wound its way along pitch-black logging roads early Thursday to be in place before first light to block old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek region on southwest Vancouver Island.
A contingent of 30 from across the island and adjacent Gulf Islands arrived at Granite Main Road at 6 a.m. to try to stall the road-building and clear-cutting of the forest giants by Teal-Jones in tree farm licence (TFL) 46 near Port Renfrew.
Continue reading Seniors arrested as Fairy Creek blockade digs in for winterNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Old-growth forests the B.C. government has identified for logging deferrals are still at risk of being clear cut, according to a West Coast conservation group.
“Intentions don’t stop chainsaws,” said Torrance Coste, campaign director for the Wilderness Committee, of the government’s failure to immediately act on the deferrals announced Nov. 2.
Continue reading B.C.’s old growth still falling with delay of provincial logging deferralsNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada must exploit the advantages its three coasts provide and stop sidelining oceans and the critical role they can play in tackling the climate crisis, marine ecologist Julia Baum says.
“We need to quit treating the ocean as a niche issue,” said Baum, President’s Chair at the University of Victoria, whose research examines the impacts of global warming on oceans and what they can contribute to climate change solutions.
Continue reading Canada must deeply invest in oceans to combat climate changeNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A coalition of environmental groups is concerned about the potential expansion of open-net pen salmon farming despite a previous promise by Ottawa to phase them out on the West Coast.
Salmon farming companies have submitted 12 applications — two of which have already been approved — to expand the size or number of net pen operations, and/or to increase the amount of fish produced at sites on the B.C. coast, according to a press release issued by four groups.
Continue reading Environmental groups concerned about potential open-net pen fish farm expansions
