As the BC election looms, the Narwhal analyzes what progress has been made on implementing the old-growth forest recommendations and what more needs to be done.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6-Eden-Grove-Ken-Wu.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgTJ Watt2024-05-29 15:10:142024-07-30 16:27:12The Narwhal: Did BC keep its old-growth forest promises?
The BC government has released an old-growth policy update outlining their plans to address the recommendations in the Old Growth Strategic Review. Here's our take.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/old-growth-logging-quatsino-vancouver-island-2023-2-2.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgTJ Watt2024-05-22 11:56:012024-10-10 11:12:16BC Old-Growth Policy Update Adds Little To Current Commitments
Together, the federal and BC governments have provided $1.1 billion to go toward achieving BC’s 30% by 2030 nature protection, conservation, and restoration goals via First Nations conservation agreements.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/6-Old-Growth-Spruce-Forest-TJ-Watt.jpg10001500TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgTJ Watt2023-11-03 10:03:152024-07-30 16:34:46Billion-dollar BC Nature Agreement will Supercharge Protected Areas Expansion across the Province
Great news — the logging deferral in the Central Walbran valley was extended last year until March 2024 and the deferral at Fairy Creek has now been extended as well until February 2025.
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1-Walbran-Castle-Grove.jpg13652048TJ Watthttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgTJ Watt2023-06-06 17:33:422024-07-30 16:34:50Recent Updates on Old-Growth Deferrals in BC
Conservation group increasingly optimistic about old-growth protection as BC government adjusts forestry regulations, invests funding in value-added forestry, and commits to a conservation financing mechanism to help establish new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas.
The AFA commends the BC government for committing to protecting 30% of lands in the province by 2030, including through the creation of new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, which would double what is currently protected in legislated areas in BC. A directive has also been given to “develop a new conservation financing mechanism to support protection of biodiverse areas.”
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1-Klaskish-Inlet-Vancouver-Island.jpg13332000Kristen Boundshttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgKristen Bounds2022-12-09 16:45:282024-07-30 16:34:55BC Government Commits to Doubling the Protection of Lands in BC to 30% by 2030 and Creating a New Conservation Financing Mechanism to Help Establish IPCA’s
BC has a chance to protect the most endangered ecosystems and promote community economic, social and cultural well-being linked to nature conservation - and also to finally end the War in the Woods over old-growth forests.
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November 9, 2022
The Narwhal
By Sarah Cox
In August, as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault prepared to visit an old-growth forest park in West Vancouver, his office drafted…
https://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/6-Logging-Truck-Old-Growth-1.jpg13652048Kristen Boundshttps://staging.ancientforestalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ancient-Forest-Alliance-logo.svgKristen Bounds2022-11-09 15:24:502024-07-30 16:35:03BC hasn’t taken $50 million federal offer for old-growth forest protections
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