AFA's Ken Wu stands beside a giant endangered redcedar in the Upper Avatar Grove.

Activists make “Avatar” pitch

Ken Wu and TJ Watt are committed to preserving as much of the natural environment as they can. The two colleagues are key members of an outfit called the Ancient Forest Alliance.
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Lower Avatar Grove

The battle to save Avatar Grove

The Ancient Forest Alliance wants the Ministry to make Avatar Grove and the surrounding 90 hectares off-limits to logging. The Avatar Grove presents the finest opportunity for the public to easily gain access to world class old-growth forest, in a wilderness setting on flat gentle terrain, says Watt.
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CHEK News: Avatar Grove Sees Visit From Provincial NDP Politician and Regional Representitives

The following CHEK TV clip covers a trip with the Ancient Forest Alliance and MLA John Horgan and CRD Director Mike Hicks to the Avatar Grove and the San Juan Spruce (the largest spruce tree in Canada,…
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"Canada's gnarliest tree" as seen in the upper Avatar Grove has been featured in the fall edition of Westworld Magazine.
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Avatar Grove Featured in Westworld Magazine

Westworld, the most highly circulated magazine in Western Canada, just published an article and photo (taken by the AFA’s TJ Watt) on the Avatar Grove and Ancient Forest Alliance in their most recent issue. With a press run of 540,000 copies, it will help to raise major public awareness about this spectacular but endangered forest near Port Renfrew.
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Cantelon Worker Deflects Heat

Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners took issue after a Cantelon's constituency assistant included an AFA website hyperlink in an e-mail to a Nanoose Bay woman asking government to save coastal Douglas fir forests.
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Helga Schmitt's home borders a piece of land for which a timber harvesting licence has been issued. The Nanoose First Nation received the licence to harvest 15

AFA denounces MLA office

An environmental group working to protect old-growth forests in B.C. is condemning local MLA Ron Cantelon’s office for insinuating they support the logging of a parcel of Coastal Douglas Fir forest in Nanoose Bay. “It’s a sleazy tactic to try and link us in their responses to concerend citizens when they write letters back as somehow insinuating that we are supporting the Nanoose Bay ancient forest logging,” said Ken Wu, one of the founders of the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) in Victoria.
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Shaw Daily: Avatar Grove and Canada’s Gnarliest Tree

The Shaw Daily local news program ran a great feature on the popular Avatar Grove in August 2010. Watch the video to see the giant gnarly redcedars the grove is now famous for and to hear some excellent commentary from Liberal MP Keith Martin on the need for more old-growth forest protection in BC!
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World's biggest Douglas-fir tree, the Red Creek Fir.

Logging near the largest Douglas fir in the world angers environmentalists

Active logging operations are creeping closer to the largest Douglas fir in the world and environmentalists fear the 1,000-year-old tree will be left vulnerable to blowdown and its value as a tourist attraction will be degraded.
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Vancouver Sun: BC’s Biggest Trees and Stumps photogallery

The Ancient Forest Alliance published photos of some of the biggest trees still standing in B.C. The newly formed organization is seeking to inform the public of the deteriorating existence of old-growth forests over the past century.
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Member of Parliament (MP) Keith Martin’s Excellent Article to Protect the Avatar Grove and Expand Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Following a trip to visit Avatar Grove and nearby clearcuts in the Gordon River Valley with Ancient Forest Alliance campaigners TJ Watt and Brendan Harry, Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca federal Liberal MP Dr. Keith Martin wrote to the Times Colonist to express his ardent support for the protection of the old-growth forests on southern Vancouver Island. Martin has proposed the expansion of the boundaries of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve to include much of the remaining unprotected old growth stands on the South Island.
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