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Nature is the Remedy
(And Why Rampant Digital Addictions are an Existential Threat to Civilization and the Planet)
By Ken Wu
As 2025 comes to a close, I wanted to address the core issues afflicting humanity and the planet, which are essentially the result of our industrial society gone amok, and why nature is an indispensable remedy. Note that this essay starts off as bleak, but is ultimately hopeful.
Read moreCheck out our new video on Canada’s newest addition to the national parks system, the 3000 hectare Pituamkek National Park Reserve on Prince Edward Island, to be co-managed by the Mi'kmaq and Parks Canada. See an interview featuring Chief Darlene Bernard (elected chief of the Lennox Island First Nation for 18 years, until June 2025) by the Endangered Ecosystem Alliance’s Ken Wu.
The new national park reserve contains spectacular coastal wetlands, vegetated sand dunes, and old-growth forests, and is being expanded over time with various land acquisitions. $71.9 million has been provided by the federal government to the First Nation over 12 years for the co-management, monitoring, stewardship, and protection of the ecosystems in the park with jobs for the local people.
On Tuesday, the federal government released its budget — which, disappointingly, fails to mention Canada’s 30x30 protection target for lands and waters. In fact, there is no mention of nature protection at all. There are no discernible allocations of funds dedicated to expanding Canada’s protected areas system, and the existing funding runs out in the spring of 2026.
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Canada must urgently reintroduce and pass the Nature Accountability Bill to protect our most endangered ecosystems and keep its conservation promises.
Please SPEAK UP to your federal parliamentary representative. Tell them you support strong, enforceable protected area commitments and the reintroduction of the Nature Accountability Bill, with the strength needed to protect Canada’s most endangered ecosystems.
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Hello Endangered Ecosystems Alliance friends!
Please help us reach our year-end fundraising goal of $80,000!
We’ve grown and accomplished much because of thousands of supporters like YOU since our inception six years ago. Coming up, we have huge tasks ahead and need your support to expand our strength.
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Conservationists stand along the fallen remains of BC's 9th widest Douglas-fir tree cut down by BC Timber Sales in 2018 in the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni in Hupačasath, Tseshaht, and Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nation territory. Photo by TJ Watt
BC Timber Sales Review Protects Destructive Status Quo Over Old-Growth Forests, Conservation Groups Condemn Latest Phase of BC NDP Government Policy Backsliding
Victoria, BC – The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are criticizing the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) review report, released September 23, for failing to recommend any measures to protect old-growth forests. In the latest example of the BC NDP’s continual backsliding on old-growth policy progress since re-election, the report outlines an expanded timber extraction agenda that conservationists warn is unsustainable and accelerates the loss of irreplaceable ecosystems.
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It's been five years since an independent panel, convened by the B.C. government, made 14 recommendations to protect old growth forests.
Conservation groups and First Nations are calling on the B.C. government to act on five-year-old promises to overhaul the logging industry to protect old-growth forests.
In 2019, the NDP government convened an independent panel to travel the province and gather input on old-growth forests. A year later the old-growth strategic review provided 14 recommendations.
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Conservation groups and environmental advocates are urgently calling on the BC government to take action in protecting old-growth forests.
This call to action comes on the five year anniversary of the Old Growth Strategic Review (OGSR) which offered the Province recommendations that would need to be acted upon in order to properly protect BC’s old-growth.
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A sprawling old-growth clearcut, nearly 40 hectares in size, logged by Teal-Jones in the Caycuse Valley in Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island, BC. Hundreds of ancient cedars, some measuring more than 10 feet (3 metres) wide, were logged here.
Conservation groups highlight five of the most shocking images of old-growth logging from the past five years, marking OGSR’s fifth anniversary with an urgent call for immediate government action to protect ancient forests
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A logging truck hauls old-growth trees, including a giant redcedar, along the shores of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island, BC.
The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are calling on the BC and federal governments to tie the federal government’s $1.25 billion softwood lumber industry support package, announced by Prime Minister Carney in August and reaffirmed at his “strategic response fund” announcement to US tariffs last week, to help transition BC’s forest industry into a sustainable, value-added second-growth industry and away from old-growth logging.
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An old-growth Ponderosa pine in the Interior, fire-driven ecosystems in the South Okanagan Grasslands Protected Area.
Media Release: BC Government Confirms No Commercial Logging in Provincial Parks Amid Rising Concerns in General for Protected Areas
The BC Ministry of Environment and Parks has officially confirmed that provincial parks are off-limits to commercial logging, responding to a formal inquiry from the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA). This comes amid growing public alarm that efforts to reduce the risk of forest fires can be misused to permit commercial logging in protected areas. While the confirmation provides some reassurance, the groups also warn that forest conservation reserves like Old-Growth Management Areas (OGMAs) may remain susceptible to commercial logging under the guise of fire-risk reduction, and like many conservation reserves, including Wildlife Habitat Areas (WHAs) and Visual Quality Objectives (VQOs), have logging loopholes that need to be closed.
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A quick overview on where Canada’s federal parties are at regarding nature and protected areas.
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This Earth Day, the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) and Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) are calling on the BC government to refocus on their incomplete measures to protect old-growth forests, implement their draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework, and ensure a transition to a sustainable, value-added second-growth forest industry. At the same time, the groups are issuing a strong warning: commercial logging must not be permitted in protected areas under the guise of wildfire risk reduction.
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Conservationists want BC’s forestry industry to be modernized amid ongoing US tariff threats.
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Conservationists call for the protection of old-growth forests and incentives and regulations to ensure a modernized, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
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B.C.’s private forests aren’t subject to the same logging regulations as those on public land — putting old growth, wildlife habitat and significant ecosystems at risk
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From old-growth forests to grasslands, rainforests to dry forests, alpine mountaintops to rich valley bottoms – BC has the greatest diversity of ecosystems in Canada. The newly re-elected BC NDP government has an opportunity to ensure the protection of these globally renowned ecosystems for our health and well-being, to support a more sustainable, diversified economy, to support First Nations cultures, and to avert the extinction and climate crises.
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By Ken Wu
I have an optimistic and resilient outlook on life. I feel fortunate that I have always tended towards this mindset, which has helped me with my environmental activism and with life in general. But, like billions of people around the world, there was a period recently when I experienced a feeling of major despair and a foreboding that very hard times are coming for the planet and humanity – so much so that I even stopped looking at the news for a week (which I never do).
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The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) and Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) are welcoming the new 2024 Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord between the NDP and Green parties in BC. The cooperation agreement's priorities include the protection of Fairy Creek and a comprehensive review of BC forests in partnership with First Nations and diverse sectors, offering a key opportunity to strengthen old-growth forest protection policies.
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Hello Endangered Ecosystems Alliance friends!
Please help us reach our Year-End fundraising goal of raising $50,000.
Your donations will go the farthest with us if you want to see outcomes change for the most endangered ecosystems in Canada.
We’ve grown and accomplished much because of thousands of supporters like YOU since our inception six years ago. Coming up, we have huge tasks ahead and need your support to expand our strength.
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