National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Fairy Creek old-growth activists are facing arrest after a logging company won a court order banning blockades defending some of the last tracts of ancient rainforest on southern Vancouver Island.
Continue reading Fairy Creek old-growth activists face arrestsThousands of people in communities across the province took to the streets in ForestMarch 2021 on Friday.
Continue reading ForestMarch 2021 for Old Growth ecosystemsNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Communities are staging protests across B.C. on Friday, urging the province to protect at-risk old-growth ecosystems from logging and to establish a new forestry framework.
Continue reading Communities staging protests across BCNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
B.C.’s forestry minister made clear a moratorium on old-growth logging is off the table as she responded to critics of the government’s progress on a promise to overhaul its approach to forestry.
BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau pressed Minister Katrine Conroy during question period last week to outline what meaningful actions government was taking to immediately protect critical old-growth forests, suggesting instead that the NDP was employing the “old strategy of talk and log.”
Continue reading BC will not impose a moratorium on old-growth loggingNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Premier John Horgan is getting failing grades when it comes to protecting B.C.’s old-growth forests, according to a report card issued by a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday.
Continue reading BC is getting failing grades in forestry, report says
