The Old-Growth Coastal Temperate Rainforests of British Columbia

Please watch and SHARE our NEW mini-documentary video on the “Old-Growth Coastal Temperate Rainforests in BC”! This video is a quick but expansive overview of the core issues surrounding the War in the Woods over logging of the last endangered old-growth forests in BC. This is the first in a series of mini-documentaries that we are producing on the Amazing Ecosystems in Canada.

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The core issues are explained in this video surrounding the controversy over the logging of old-growth coastal temperate rainforests in BC, in a video produced by the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance. Be sure to SEND a MESSAGE to the BC and federal governments to protect old-growth forests.

Old-growth forests are vital to sustain endangered species, First Nations cultures (whose unceded lands these are), clean water, wild salmon, carbon storage, and for tourism and recreation.

Well over 90% of the grandest old-growth forests in BC with the largest trees have been logged and time is running out fast as the industrial logging of these last old-growth stands occurs at a breakneck speed, spanning an area over 5 times the size of the city of Vancouver each year.

Most forests in BC are second-growth now, and if the BC government fostered a value-added, sustainable second-growth forest industry they could sustain forestry employment levels in BC while protecting the remaining old-growth forests.

Produced by the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

Directed by Darryl Augustine Written and Narrated by Ken Wu Main

Camera Crew - Jay Shushtoff and Kimberley Drury

Graphics by Colton Hash

Interviewed:

  • Bill Jones, Pacheedaht Elder

  • Dr. Andy MacKinnon, Forest Ecologist

  • Erika Heyrman, Forest Activist

  • Gisele Maria Martin, Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Guardian, 2018

  • Vicky Husband, BC Conservationists and Order of Canada recipient

Full credits at the end of the film


These and future videos in the Amazing Ecosystems of Canada series can be located on our YouTube channel or on our website in our Video section.