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Much of Vancouver Island's second-growth forest is being logged quickly and shipped out of BC as raw logs instead of being processed and manufactured at local mills.

Translation needed in raw-log export debate

A letter writer does an excellent job of de-bunking industry spin regarding raw log exports point by point in this hard-hitting article.
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Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Hannah Carpendale stands amongst giant old-growth Douglas-firs alongside the Koksilah River. These lands could be at risk of being logged by the pension funds.
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Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group opposes TimberWest sale to pension funds

The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group representing First Nation bands from north of Shawnigan lake to Nanaimo on eastern Vancouver Island is opposing the sale of TimberWest to two pension funds because of a lack of consultation and accommodation of First Nations rights and title interests in the transaction.
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The two journalism students put together an audio/visual story on the Avatar Grove. Follow this link to watch and listen: https://thethunderbird.ca/2011/03/31/old-trees-find-new-value-in-historic-logging-town/

Cross Canada Bike Tour Aims to Raise Funds to Protect BC’s Ancient Forests!

Wildlife biologist Nigel Jackett, and environmentalist-musician Jaime Hall have begun a cross Canada bicycle expedition to raise awareness for one of Canada’s most unique but threatened environments: the Pacific temperate rainforest of coastal British Columbia. The two will be raising funds for the Ancient Forest Alliance based on the total number of bird species found during their ride. Make a PLEDGE TODAY!
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The two journalism students put together an audio/visual story on the Avatar Grove. Follow this link to watch and listen: https://thethunderbird.ca/2011/03/31/old-trees-find-new-value-in-historic-logging-town/
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CHEK News: The Fight For Our Ancient Forests, BC Parks, and the Carmanah Valley

The story focuses on the Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park and highlights the need to increase parks funding and maintenence in these spectacular places as well as the need to expand protected areas to include the remaining endangered old-growth forests on Vancouver Island and southern BC and shift instead to logging second-growth forests sustainably.
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Forests for the Future: Community Gathering & Letter-Writing Evening at the Rhizome Cafe

Join in on a grassroots community gathering to celebrate the legacy of BC's endangered ancient forests and to voice support for their protection. Featuring forest trivia, letter-writing, and a slideshow of images of BC's ancient temperate rainforests!
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Guests attend the Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce fundraiser at the Sooke Harbour House.

Port Renfrew Chamber News

I would like to thank the Sooke Harbour House, The Ancient Forest Alliance and Adriane Carr for making the event all possible. We raised $6,100 in pledges and cash donations, and made new friends who own companies who are able to give a hand in other areas.
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The two journalism students put together an audio/visual story on the Avatar Grove. Follow this link to watch and listen: https://thethunderbird.ca/2011/03/31/old-trees-find-new-value-in-historic-logging-town/

Avatar Grove – Making a Stand

Four bright and dedicated students from Pearson College put together an excellent 7 minute documentary on the Avatar Grove and Vancouver Island’s threatened old-growth forests.
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Avatar Grove

Avatar Grove must get saved

A recent Forest Practices Board report notes that just one per cent of the Gordon Valley landscape unit consists of protected monumental trees over 400 years old. In addition, only about one-fourth or 4,000 hectares of the Gordon River’s 17,000 hectares is still old-growth, of which only half or 2,000 hectares are protected in Old-Growth Management Areas (OGMA’s).
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The two journalism students put together an audio/visual story on the Avatar Grove. Follow this link to watch and listen: https://thethunderbird.ca/2011/03/31/old-trees-find-new-value-in-historic-logging-town/

Old trees find new value in historic logging town

Nestled on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, the town’s livelihood and identity grew out of logging old-growth forests for most of the 20th century. Mechanization of the logging industry in the 1980s led to significant job loss, which forced the town to find new ways to thrive.
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