While a pitched battle is underway to save old-growth trees on the West Coast, a B.C.-based non-profit is conscripting a contingent of luxury brands that are pledging to eliminate packaging made from the world’s ancient and endangered forests.
Credible sightings of the threatened owl species have prompted government biologists and industry-hired wildlife professionals to survey the Fairy Creek area for nests.
A photo of a massive Sitka spruce on a logging truck went viral this week. Despite the B.C. Ministry of Forest's comments, Sierra Club BC says the giant tree is still not safe under B.C.'s new big tree protections.
RCMP are wrong to silence media coverage of the Fairy Creek blockades trying to protect B.C.'s old-growth trees from logging, writes freelance writer and climate justice organizer Maia Wikler.
An environmental coalition is calling on B.C. government to take advantage of available federal funding to protect old-growth forests, support forestry communities and end its current war in the woods.
Green Party MP Paul Manly is calling on the federal government to protect threatened western screech owls spotted in the Caycuse Valley area, where RCMP have arrested old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades this week.
RCMP unexpectedly arrested a number of old-growth activists with the Fairy Creek blockades inside the control zone near the Caycuse Camp early Thursday morning.
The RCMP are taking the first steps to enforce an injunction against the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades, but protesters worry new police control areas will limit public accountability around arrests.
Canada's continent-spanning forest used to remove massive amounts of CO2 from the air each year. It was a hugely valuable "carbon sink", slowing the pace of climate change and benefiting our logging industry.