News Coverage

Note: Last week we welcomed the release of the Old Growth Strategic Review panel's long-anticipated report, which includes strong recommendations to protect old-growth forests & overhaul BC's forest…

Here's the first in series of articles by Serena Renner that take a deep dive into the 'tree of life', western redcedar. "Its future in doubt, no other tree has provided such abundance and identity for northwest peoples, or such habitat and carbon storage in the forest." Read on to learn more & see some photos from AFA's TJ Watt.

My Campbell River NowSeptember 12, 2020 The province is taking a new, holistic approach as a first step for the benefit of its old-growth forests. This will include the protection of nine areas…

The TyeeSeptember 11, 2020 The province matches its much-anticipated report with new protections. But some ancient forests are still at risk. Left unprotected. Among the old-growth areas…

The Canadian PressSeptember 11, 2020 Meares Island in the Clayoquot Sound region, one of the areas identified for development deferral. TJ WATT-ANCIENT FOREST ALLIANCE The British Columbia government…

A third blockade has been set up on Edinburgh Mountain to stop logging corporation Teal-Jones from road building and logging in ancient forests in unceded Pacheedaht territory near Port Renfrew. Read on for more details.

CBC News British ColumbiaAugust 14, 2020 T.J. Watt, an activist with the Ancient Forest Alliance, admires an old-growth yellow cedar in the Fairy Creek watershed near Port Renfrew on southern Vancouver…

The Williams Lake TribuneAugust 14th, 2020 9.5-foot-wide yellow cedar measured by Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners in Fairy Creek watershed Government and company officials continue to avoid…

  Chek News5pm Newscast – August 13, 2020 Watch this Chek News segment about the blockade to protect the at-risk headwaters of the Fairy Creek valley near Port Renfrew in Pacheedaht…