A rough timeline over 4 years since the BC NDP came to power, focused on key developments and associated facts related to provincial old-growth forest policy, with links to key sources provided.
Read moreMedia Release: BC Provincial Budget fails to provide the critical funding for Old-Growth Forest Protection at the most critical time
The BC NDP government’s budget released this week is a significant move to minimize disruption to the status quo of old-growth forest liquidation by timber companies, as it lacks the critically important funding needed to support First Nations old-growth protection initiatives at the most critical time – at a time when the province is engaging First Nations communities on developing major new policies and legislation to manage old-growth forests across BC, including key logging deferrals and potential areas to protect or not to protect.
Read moreAmazing Ecosystems of Canada Mini-Documentary Video Series - Funding Request
Our goal is to reach 10 million Canadians via social media over the next 6 months with this ecosystem mini-video series, featuring temperate rainforests, Interior dry forests, grasslands, foothills ecosystems, aspen parkland, southern deciduous forests, northern conifer forests, eastern mixed forests, and more...all as part of a major push to get provinces and the federal government to commit to more ambitious, ecosystem-based protected areas targets and the requisite support for Indigenous protected areas and land acquisition funding.
Read moreMaclean's Magazine on BC's Old-Growth: Falling Fast
Three decades after the so-called ‘War of the Woods,’ the logging of B.C.’s ancient forests goes on, prompting protest from a new generation of eco-activists.
From Maclean’s Magazine, April 13th
Read moreOld-Growth Media: Town Hall Zoom Event with EEA's Ken Wu and Sonia Furstenau
Here on Facebook is an Old-Growth Town Hall Zoom event where 700 people attended, with the EEA's Ken Wu, Green MLA's Sonia Furstenau and Adam Olsen, scientists Andy MacKinnon and Rachel Holt, and Kwakiutl councilor Dorothy Hunt.
Read moreEEA's Ken Wu on the Capital Daily Podcast discussing the Politics of Old-Growth BC Forests with Sonia Furstenau
Here is a radio podcast in the Capital Daily News where the EEA's Ken Wu and Green leader and Cowichan Valley MLA Sonia Furstenau talk about the politics of old-growth forests in BC and how the BC government has to provide the critical conservation financing for First Nations land use plans and protected areas if they are serious about implementing the recommendations of the Old-Growth Strategic Review panel.
Read moreCHEK News: B.C. Government Faces Rising Criticism for Failing to Protect Old Growth Forests from Logging
Here is an important article by Rob Shaw of CHEK news, who the EEA's Ken Wu spoke with about some of the PR-spin of the BC NDP government as it relates to the destruction of old-growth forests.
Read moreThank you for tuning into the Conversation with Nathalie Boltt
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Critical funding for First Nations old-growth protection initiatives needed from BC Government - Letter
Old-growth forests across BC are heavily threatened across the province by industrial logging. Provincial funding for Indigenous old-growth protection initiatives is key to protect them. The top left “before and after” shots are logging of ancient redcedar in the Caycuse Valley in Ditidaht territory; bottom left is a massive logged and burned redcedar in the Klanawa Valley in Ditidaht/Huu-ay-aht territory; top right is an epiphyte-laded giant sitka spruce in Pacheedaht territory; and bottom right is Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
The following is the text from a letter submitted to the provincial government of BC from the Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) and the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, Ancient Forest Alliance, Sierra Club of BC, Wilderness Committee and Stand.earth regarding critical funding for First Nations old-growth protection initiatives.
Read moreA Message About Old-Growth Forests from the EEA's Ken Wu
Read a statement from the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance’s executive director Ken Wu on the organization’s role in protecting old-growth forests in BC here.
Read moreHistory's Greatest Chance to Protect Nature, 2021
Check out and share this new video overview on the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's plan in history's greatest opportunity to expand protected areas in 2021. Please help us grow our clout! Donate here!
Thanks to Darryl Augustine of Roadside films for putting this together and Kristen Brown for her quick filming of the narration!
AND this Thursday December 17, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm (Pacific Time), the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance will host an on-line Zoom event on "History's Greatest Chance to Protect Nature, 2021 - The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's role" with staff introductions, a slideshow presentation about Canada's amazing ecosystems and greatest natural areas (eg's. BC's old-growth forests, Alberta's Rockies and foothills, the prairie grasslands, eastern deciduous forests, etc.) and Q and A. Join EEA's staff Ken Wu, Celina Starnes, Katie Wiese, and Richa Tyagi for this presentation. Please register now to join us for this FREE (but donations greatly accepted) event.
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The Narwhal: ‘Put away your power saws’: First Nations leaders, conservationists have a new plan to protect old-growth
A new piece by The Narwhal highlights First Nations and the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance’s Founder Ken Wu’s vision for BC and its endangered ecosystems.
The Narwhal: ‘Put away your power saws’: First Nations leaders, conservationists have a new plan to protect old-growth
Ancient forest advocates are weary of political promises that have so far been unable to slow the pace of clearcut logging in B.C. Here’s how visionaries think the province should move forward to protect beloved trees and critical habitat while making good on commitments to uphold Indigenous rights
B.C. should finance old-growth protections, advocates say
Read moreMedia Release: BC’s Endangered Old-Growth Forests get International Exposure at the UK’s largest media arts festival opening today showcasing a film by renowned Canadian art Professor Kelly Richardson
The endangered old-growth forests of British Columbia are about to get some international exposure starting at the United Kingdom’s largest media arts festival, the York Mediale, which opens to the public today with the exhibition of the film Embers and the Giants by internationally renowned Canadian artist Kelly Richardson.
Read moreFirst Nations, conservationists, scientists and politicians call on the BC and Federal Governments to Finance the Protection of Old-Growth Forests in their Budgets and Recovery Plans
Media Release
October 15, 2020
Earmarking a subset of the federal $1.3 billion Canada Nature Fund today could ensure the protection of old-growth forests across Canada, or new funding can be provided in the upcoming federal budget.
Provincial funding for Indigenous Protected Areas and First Nations land use plans to protect old-growth must accompany government-to-government negotiations.
Read moreEEA Commends the Old-Growth Forest Resolution of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs
Media Release
October. 8, 2020
Conservationists Commend the Union of BC Indian Chiefs’ (UBCIC) call for the BC Government to Expand Old-Growth Logging Deferrals in Consultation with First Nations, Adopt all of the 14 Old-Growth Strategic Review Panel Recommendations, and Support Indigenous Protected Areas and First Nations Land Use Plans.
Read moreUnion of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) Resolution on Old-Growth Forests in BC
Article 26(1): Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired. (2) Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired. (3) States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
Read moreCalling all nature photographers and videographers! (yes, that includes pics and vids from your amazing smart phones!)
Place your photos and videos in the service of conservation!
We need the best photos and video clips you've taken of the amazing native ecosystems, wildlife, plants, and landscapes (including their destruction too) across Canada.
We'll use your photos and videos to massively scale-up public awareness via social media and the news media on the magnificence of and threats to Canadian ecosystems.
Read moreBC's New Old-Growth Policy: Missing the heart of Old-Growth Forests, But shows some promise
Big Lonely Doug, Canada's 2nd largest Douglas-fir, surrounded by a clearcut in 2014 - and today surrounded by a second-growth tree-plantation that lacks the old-growth dependent species, carbon storage, tourism value, and cultural value of the original old-growth forest that once surrounded Doug.
Media Release
Sept. 11, 2020
BC NDP Government’s Old-Growth Plan:
Some important progress and potential, while missing the “ecological heart of old-growth forests” which remain in danger (no moratoria on the grandest and most endangered old-growth ecosystems), plus more heel dragging (“re-elect us and we’ll do it sometime after”).
Read moreSEND a MESSAGE: Support a federal Green Recovery Plan that Protects Nature
Recently Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland referred to the federal government’s plans for a “Green Recovery” in response to the economic downturn created by the Covid crisis.
Read moreSEND a MESSAGE: Stop open-pit coal mining in Alberta's Rocky Mountains!
Stop Open-Pit Coal Mining in Alberta!
On May 15, 2020 the Alberta government announced that it would be removing the environmental protections implemented through its 44 year old “Coal Policy”, devised by former premier Peter Lougheed in 1976, that prohibited open-pit coal mining in vast swaths of the province’s Rocky Mountains and foothills.
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