British Columbia is the most ecologically and biologically diverse province in Canada, spanning from towering old-growth temperate rainforests to hot dry grasslands, from low elevation wetlands to high elevation alpine tundra, and from freshwater to marine ecosystems.
Currently, about 15% of the province is safeguarded in legislated protected areas, with ecosystems across the province at risk from a variety of industrial threats including industrial logging, suburban sprawl, oil and gas, mining, and agricultural conversion.
For almost 2 years, the BC and federal government have been negotiating a potential funding agreement to expand the protected areas system in BC.
If they do this, such a Nature Agreement could be the biggest game-changer for the protection of endangered ecosystems and old-growth forests in BC's history, finally ending the 50 year old War in the Woods!
PLEASE SEND a MESSAGE to the BC and Federal governments.
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