News Coverage

Check out this APTN News piece about the current blockade to stop Teal Jones from logging Fairy Creek, the last unlogged watershed in the San Juan river system and probably the last unprotected intact…

Lack of response from government led Nanaimo duo to give up fast after two weeks. The TyeeAugust 11, 2020 Robert Fuller and James Darling ended their hunger strike at a Nanaimo rally. Photo…

Independent activists have launched a blockade to stop Teal Jones from road building and logging in the spectacular, intact Fairy Creek watershed in Pacheedaht territory near Port Renfrew. The group are calling on the NDP government to release the Old Growth Strategic Review panel's recommendations on how BC should best manage old-growth and to enact immediate moratoria for Vancouver Island's remaining ancient forests.

Most of British Columbia’s old-growth forests of big trees live only on maps, and what’s left on the ground is fast disappearing, a team of independent scientists has found.

      Vancouver SunJune 9, 2020 An independent report by a trio of scientists warns that the tiny amount of old-growth forest remaining in B.C. is in peril if the province…

CBC News British ColumbiaJune 4th, 2020 Old growth cedar is pictured in Avatar Grove on Vancouver Island. (Chris Corday/CBC) Self-published report concludes most old growth areas counted…

Government touts 13 million hectares of province's forests are old growth, but ecologists found only 35,000 hectares support the largest trees The NarwhalJune 4th, 2020 The majority of British…

Check out this piece in the Cowichan Valley Citizen on the logging of one of the most spectacular ancient forests on the South Island rivalling Avatar Grove or the Walbran.

See this article in Explore Magazine which features an interview with AFA's TJ Watt and covers the history of the Avatar Grove campaign, the economic value of standing old-growth forests, and debunks…