
CHEK News: BC signs ‘historic’ $1B agreement to protect lands and waters
In a historic agreement between the federal and provincial governments, over $1 billion has been allocated to protect 30% of BC’s lands and waters by 2030.
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TJ Watt2023-11-06 10:14:302024-06-17 16:10:26CHEK News: BC signs ‘historic’ $1B agreement to protect lands and waters
The Georgia Strait: “Conservation financing is a game-changer for BC’s old-growth forests”
Read this op-ed by Endangered Ecosystems Alliance's Ken Wu discussing the new conservation financing mechanism announced by Premier David Eby and the BC NDP last week.
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TJ Watt2023-10-31 15:55:272023-11-01 17:17:53The Georgia Strait: “Conservation financing is a game-changer for BC’s old-growth forests”
The Times Colonist: BC’s $300M old-growth fund puts First Nations ‘in the driver’s seat’
$300-million investment aims to save BC's old-growth forests by offering First Nations sustainable economic alternatives to industrial logging.
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TJ Watt2023-10-27 11:52:082023-10-27 11:52:08The Times Colonist: BC’s $300M old-growth fund puts First Nations ‘in the driver’s seat’
The Canadian Press: Poor data hinders B.C. old-growth logging deferrals, advocates say
Irreplaceable ancient forests that should meet criteria for interim protection are being left open to logging in British Columbia due to outdated and inaccurate government data, advocates and an ecologist who advised the province say.
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TJ Watt2023-10-24 12:50:042023-10-24 16:20:12The Canadian Press: Poor data hinders B.C. old-growth logging deferrals, advocates say
The Independent: Rare tree hunter in Canada finds ‘freak of nature’ 1,000-year-old cedar
An explorer who focuses on location and preserving old-growth trees has encountered what is one of the oldest old-growth trees ever documented in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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TJ Watt2023-10-11 15:28:312023-10-11 15:28:31The Independent: Rare tree hunter in Canada finds ‘freak of nature’ 1,000-year-old cedar
The Washington Post: ‘Freak of nature’ tree is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer
TJ Watt has spent half his life as a forest explorer, a self-described “tree hunter” in British Columbia. He wades deep into endangered forests to find pristine towering trees that are hundreds of years old and massively wide but have never been photographed or documented.
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TJ Watt2023-10-11 15:27:032023-10-12 12:01:09The Washington Post: ‘Freak of nature’ tree is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer
Massive red cedar resembling rock wall discovered in Ahousaht territory
Giving the illusion of a rock wall, a massive western red cedar tree in Ahousaht territory near Tofino in Clayoquot Sound has been named one of Canada’s most impressive trees by conservationists on Vancouver Island.
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TJ Watt2023-08-09 11:44:142023-08-09 11:44:14Massive red cedar resembling rock wall discovered in Ahousaht territory
1,000 year old tree found on Flores Island to be protected
Nearly two decades into his hunt for B.C.’s biggest trees, it takes a lot to blow away Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner and National Geographic explorer TJ Watt. A tree on Flores Island has done just that.
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TJ Watt2023-07-31 14:52:072023-07-31 14:52:071,000 year old tree found on Flores Island to be protected
BC big tree hunter documents grandest old-growth tree he’s ever seen
TJ Watt says Western red cedar near Tofino is a 46-metre-tall leviathan of a biodiverse ecosystem.
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TJ Watt2023-07-31 14:43:022023-07-31 14:53:08BC big tree hunter documents grandest old-growth tree he’s ever seen
VIDEO: Canada’s most impressive tree?
Check out this video on CTV News covering what we believe to be the most impressive tree in Canada.
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TJ Watt2023-07-31 09:53:112023-08-01 13:42:07VIDEO: Canada’s most impressive tree?Take Action
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