Send a message to the BC Liberal government that they need to protect our ancient forests, ensure the sustainable logging of second-growth forests, and ban raw log exports to protect forestry jobs!
Vancouver, BC
12:00 NOON - Meet at Canada Place (closest Skytrain is Waterfront Station)
12:30pm - Begin march to Vancouver Art Gallery with the lively "Carnival Band".
1:00 pm - Arrive at Vancouver Art Gallery-Georgia Street side: Speeches by Judith Sayers (former Chief of the Hupacasath First Nation), Ken Wu (Ancient Forest Alliance Co-founder), Jens Wieting (Sierra Club of BC Forest Campaigner), and Stephanie Goodwin (Greenpeace)!
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Gnarly, dude. Environmentalists are exploiting a grotesquely shaped western red cedar to highlight the need to protect a grove of old-growth trees near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island.
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A new Canadian environmental organization, the Ancient Forest Alliance (www.ancientforestalliance.org), is claiming to have found what may be the 'gnarliest tree in Canada' in the endangered 'Avatar Grove' on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
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Get ready to visit the world of Avatar - for real. On Sunday, March 28, the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is taking volunteers, community members, media and anyone interested to visit Vancouver Island's own 'Avatar Grove,' a special old-growth forest located near Port Renfrew.
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Please Support the Ancient Forest Alliance!
Help the fledgling organization take the campaign to save BC’s old-growth forests and to ban raw log exports to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!
Fundraising goals:
$10,000…
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A recent shakeup in Victoria’s activist community may signify a new chapter in our long history of environmental action.
The longtime coordinator for the Victoria branch of BC’s Western Canada Wilderness…
A March gale hissed through the treetops, spinning sudden flurries of an early spring snow into the canopy 10 storeys above our heads.
The wind sounded like surf on a distant beach but down on the mossy forest floor of what the province's forestry maps officially designate as DL33, the world was as still as a cemetery.
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Its storytelling may have left the critics - and the Academy - cold. But there's no denying James Cameron's digital extravaganza Avatar has inspired tree-huggers the world round, rooted as it is on themes of conserving ancient ecosystems in all their majesty.
What’s 12 feet tall and blue all over?
If you’ve seen the movie Avatar — and who hasn’t? — you’ll know the answer to that question is the Na’vi, the incredibly cool, nearly naked aliens with cornrows and braids who live on the incredibly cool, beautiful planet known as Pandora, all threatened by the techno-military-industrial (and little) bad guys from Earth, who lust for a metaphorical mineral called “unobtanium.”
That’s us, folks.
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A patch of the Tahsish River Valley on western Vancouver Island is the new poster child for the ecological impact of old-growth logging — this time on limestone karst, perhaps the world’s most fragile landscape.
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TOMORROW Saturday, March 27 – RALLY for Ancient Forests and Forestry Jobs!
Deformed cedar puts new face on old-growth protection on Vancouver Island
The gnarliest tree in Canada found in the endangered Avatar Grove on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
A new Canadian environmental organization, the Ancient Forest Alliance (www.ancientforestalliance.org), is claiming to have found what may be the 'gnarliest tree in Canada' in the endangered 'Avatar Grove' on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Vancouver Island’s own Avatar world under threat
Get ready to visit the world of Avatar - for real. On Sunday, March 28, the Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is taking volunteers, community members, media and anyone interested to visit Vancouver Island's own 'Avatar Grove,' a special old-growth forest located near Port Renfrew.
Please Support the Ancient Forest Alliance!
Alliance Protects Ancient Forests
Teetering on the brink of extinction
Threatened BC Forest Dubbed the ‘Avatar Grove’
Its storytelling may have left the critics - and the Academy - cold. But there's no denying James Cameron's digital extravaganza Avatar has inspired tree-huggers the world round, rooted as it is on themes of conserving ancient ecosystems in all their majesty.
Pandora fans feeling blue over the Earth
Old-growth logging blamed for Island wasteland