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April 4, 2024

Why Locking In Logging Deferrals to Save BC Old Growth Is So Slow
Three years into the plan, many First Nations continue discussing signing deferral agreements with the province. The Tyee: More than three years after announcing plans to defer logging of old-growth forests, the British Columbia government continues talking with many individual Indigenous nations about whether or not to move ahead with the deferrals proposed on their...

January 29, 2024

15 Fairy Creek land defenders sued for $10M by Teal-Jones
Defendants say the lawsuit is meant to silence old growth activists A road blockade at Fairy Creek. Photo: Harley Gordon / Capital Daily The Tyee: Capital Daily – Things have been quiet lately in the Fairy Creek watershed. Logging in the area has been deferred until 2025 and the injunction that prevented protesters from blocking...

December 15, 2023

The Case of the Ghostly Trestle
On the northern Sunshine Coast, a popular lake preserves the remnants of early settler history The Tyee: A few summers ago, my friend Nola took me paddle boarding at Haslam Lake, in one of the more accessible recreational forest areas surrounding what is currently known as Powell River, B.C. We drove down a logging road...

December 13, 2023

Exclusive: Docs Blocked by BC NDP Raise Questions about First Nation Statement on Fairy Creek Protests
The Pacheedaht First Nation’s statement was an ideological bomb for protesters and their supporters. Was it influenced by the BC government? Joshua Wright / Wikimedia Commons NationTalk: The Walrus – IN THE SPRING of 2021, all eyes were on Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island. The valley, which contained one of the largest unbroken tracts of old-growth forest...

October 30, 2023

Forest range licence renewed without consultation, First Nation says
Halfway River First Nation says the provincial government has failed to consult with them over a forest tenure range located at the Crystal Springs Ranch.  First Nations Law Report: Halfway River First Nation has filed a B.C. Supreme Court petition to protect their treaty rights, following a provincial licence renewal for a forest tenure range located...

September 5, 2023

Did a High-Profile Wildfire Review Lead to Real Change?
Five years later, the co-chairs say much more action is needed. Andrew MacLeod 5 Sep 2023The Tyee Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at amacleod@thetyee.ca. NationTalk: the Tyee – Maureen Chapman, co-chair of a review five years ago into...

August 29, 2023

30 years after Clayoquot Sound protests, old-growth logging continues unabated: B.C. conservation group
Forest management in region since so-called War of the Woods should be model for rest of B.C., critics say Chad Pawson · CBC News · Posted: Aug 29, 2023 6:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago CBC News: The Sierra Club of B.C. says the logging of large old trees in verdant, biodiverse forests on Vancouver Island...

July 20, 2023

New forest surveillance system exposes ongoing old growth logging in British Columbia, amid ongoing calls for transparency
Stand.earth Research Group’s ‘Forest Eye’ combines government data with remote sensing and satellite imagery to send the public alerts about recent logging in old growth forests in proposed deferral areas NationTalk: xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories (Vancouver, BC) –  Award-winning researchers launched a bespoke data mapping tool today exposing the state of of old...

April 18, 2023

Fairy Creek old-growth protesters celebrate as a slew of contempt charges are withdrawn
Decision comes after earlier court ruling found RCMP did not properly read the injunction to protesters CBC News: The B.C. Prosecution Service says it has withdrawn contempt charges against 11 old-growth logging protesters accused of breaching a court injunction during blockades at Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island. Spokesperson Gordon Comer says prosecutors were in court Tuesday to...

March 16, 2023

We Need to Talk about Private Forest Lands
A gap in government protection is undermining Indigenous rights and environmental protection. The Tyee: The B.C. government has been roundly applauded for removing a key word from the provincial regulations governing forest planning.  For two decades the word “unduly” has limited the protection of so-called “non-timber” values in B.C. forests. Wildlife habitat, soil, biodiversity and...

March 10, 2023

Canada, home to a massive boreal forest, lobbied to limit U.S., EU anti-deforestation bills
Canada’s boreal forest covers 270 million hectares, spanning from Yukon through to N.L. CBC News: Canada is facing international criticism for undermining efforts to protect one of the world’s last primary forests — our own. Jennifer Skene, natural climate solutions policy manager for the Washington-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), accuses the Canadian government of...

January 9, 2022

Indigenous Rights: Conservation vs Logging: Fairy Creek
Toronto Star: The Indigenous-led Fairy Creek protest on southern Vancouver Island, active since August 2020 and with 1,188 arrests, so far, is the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. The RCMP has reportedly spent $6.8 million on policing in 2021, cycling in officers from round the province for one- to three-week stints. Pacheedaht...

December 1, 2021

Indigenous Rights: Conservation vs Logging: Fairy Creek
NationTalk – First Nations leaders from across B.C. and Technical Advisory Panel member Dr. Rachel Holt called on the provincial government to take faster action to protect threatened old-growth forests and commit the resources necessary to support First Nations through this process with immediate deferrals. Following the government’s announcement of its intention to defer 2.6...

September 9, 2021

Indigenous Rights: Conservation vs Logging: Fairy Creek
Ricochet – “Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging”. Among the specific recommendations in an independent report “A New Future for Old Forests: A Strategic Review of How British Columbia Manages for Old Forests Within its Ancient Ecosystems” is the deferral of logging in all at-risk old-growth forests in B.C....

August 17, 2021

BC Government ignores First Nations Forest Strategy
Tŝilhqot’in, Lake Babine & Carrier Sekani Territories: Our Nations call on the Province to significantly rethink and revise the Forestry Intentions Paper content that is intended to address Crown Indigenous reconciliation, and commit to a process to co-draft a revised version of the Paper with our Nations, other interested First Nations, and the First Nations...

February 16, 2021

BC Government ignores First Nations Forest Strategy
BC First Nations Forestry Council – The Forest Stewardship Council of Canada (FSC) has announced their full support of the BC First Nations Forest Strategy (the ‘Forest Strategy’). Released in May 2019, the Forest Strategy was developed in collaboration with the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations & Rural Development (MFLNRORD) to advance...

November 16, 2020

BC Government ignores First Nations Forest Strategy
NationTalk – [Op-Ed] BC First Nations in Forestry: What Does Commitment Mean? – In several letters sent to BC First Nations in 2018 and 2019 the Government committed to involving Nations in the development of forest policy, including legislative and regulatory review. Regardless of these commitments, the BC Government made significant changes to forest policies...

May 1, 2019

BC Government ignores First Nations Forest Strategy
BC First Nations Forest Strategy (Draft) May 2019 Guiding principles To advance reconciliation by recognizing First Nations as governments with an increasing role in the governance and stewardship of forest lands and resources in BC; NOT ADDRESSED To honour and move forward on the commitments made by the Province to fully implement the United Nations...
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