On the far western edge of Clayoquot Sound lies the Sydney River Valley, a fully intact rainforest watershed at the head of Sydney Inlet. In 2024, after years of advocacy, much of the watershed was permanently…
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/sydney-valley-clayoquot-sound-bc-1.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cropped-AFA-Logo-1000px.pngTJ Watt2025-07-07 16:28:012025-07-07 16:28:43Photos: Sydney River Valley – Clayoquot Sound
History was made in Clayoquot Sound one year ago with the most significant expansion of old-growth protection in decades, when the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation declared the protection of 760 km2 of land in 10 new conservancies.
A photograph of a solitary man walking along terraces in China, rust-red rivers in Alaska and a gargantuan western red cedar are among the winning images of the Earth Photo 2024 competition. The award – created in 2018 by Forestry England, the UK’s Royal Geographic Society and visual arts consultancy Parker Harris – aims to showcase the beauty of our planet, as well as the threats it is facing, from climate change to toxic pollution.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Flores-Island-Tyson-CNN-1.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cropped-AFA-Logo-1000px.pngTJ Watt2024-06-24 13:20:412024-06-24 13:22:07CNN: Striking photos show how our planet is changing – for better and for worse
An image of a massive western red cedar towering over an Ahousaht hereditary leader has won an award in the Royal Geographical Society’s Earth Photo 2024 competition. Titled Flores Island Cedar, the photo shows Tyson Atleo standing at the base of a western red cedar that’s estimated to be more than 1,000 years old.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Flores-Island-Cedar-TJ-Watt.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cropped-AFA-Logo-1000px.pngTJ Watt2024-06-24 10:58:542024-06-24 10:58:54Times Colonist: Photo of old-growth cedar tree on Flores Island wins international award
Conservationists are applauding the leadership of the Ahousaht, Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and BC NDP government for yesterday declaring the protection of 76,000 hectares of land in new conservancies in Clayoquot Sound near Tofino.
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.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Flores-Island-Clayoquot-Sound-150.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cropped-AFA-Logo-1000px.pngTJ 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
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.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/flores-island-cedar-tree-tj-watt.jpg10001500TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cropped-AFA-Logo-1000px.pngTJ 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
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