"In the vacuum that is provincial park creation in B.C., a West Kootenay-based environmental group is stepping up to call attention to that fact and to lobby for the creation of three new parks in one of the rarest ecosystems in the world."
Just found out a huge number of old trees on Supply Road are going to be cut down for road widening. Decades old trees will be gone overnight so cars can move 5 mins faster.
Every summer gets hotter, air quality keeps getting worse, floods get worse every monsoon and the solution is apparently always “cut more trees pour more concrete”.
Public presentations across British Columbia | June 2–22, 2026
>The New Forest Act Roadshow is a series of public presentations across British Columbia explaining what the New Forest Act is, why BC’s current forestry system is failing, and what a workable legislative solution looks like.
>That solution is the New Forest Act – a proposed policy framework developed over several years through research, public input, and lived experience in communities directly affected by forestry decisions.
https://boundaryforest.org/new-forest-act-roadshow-2026-info/
BC Timber Sales (BCTS) - a BC government agency - has this rare old-growth temperate rainforest cutblock in Vancouver Island’s Nahmint Valley slated for logging. In this forest is at least one active bear den, massive western hemlocks and western red cedars, as well as the blue-listed old growth speckled belly lichen.
These rainforests store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon. BC is losing old-growth three times faster than Brazil loses Amazon rainforest. This is one of many old-growth cutblocks in the pipeline. Over 90% of Vancouver Island’s most productive old-growth is already gone - and most of what’s left has no protection.
Want to help?
Reach out to the BC government:
premier@gov.bc.ca
This is a deeply embedded policy issue. Learn about an alternative - the New Forest Act legislative proposal: boundaryforest.org
And don’t stop talking about this. Share this post. Tell someone. There are still Canadians who don’t even realize we have an ancient rainforest in this country. The more people who know these forests exist, the harder it is to quietly harvest them.
Southern mountain caribou were listed as threatened in 2003 under Canada's Species at Risk Act. So why did the BC government allow logging in threatened caribou habitat even though there is a provincial recommendation against it?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-logging-caribou-habitat-9.7202598
Massive herbicide spraying is turning forests into toxic plantations.
Canada does the same with the exception of Quebec.
https://open.substack.com/pub/animalpolitics/p/roundup-in-the-national-forests-how
Conserved and protected areas in Canada are invaluable — but we have 9 charts that try to capture their economic impact
>The federal government’s vision for conservation, laid out in its 2026 nature strategy, is of a nation that “protects, restores, and values nature as a foundation of our economy, sovereignty, and well-being.”
>One of the pillars to achieving that vision is “valuing nature and mobilizing capital,” according to the strategy. It estimated the value of “ecosystem services” — the direct and indirect contributions of nature to well-being and quality of life — to be $3.6 trillion, or “more than double our 2018 GDP.” In other words, the government is looking to spur more private sector investment in conservation by showing businesses how valuable nature is to their bottom lines.
https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-conservation-economy-in-charts/
Unfortunately it seems like the government wants to set aside land to most likely tokenize it for carbon credits rather than save it for its innate ecosystem and infrastructure values. Is this new focus on "mobilizing capital" and conservation financing tools treating ecosystems as merely investment opportunities rather than essential to life? What will be the end result - a large scale sensor network polluting our forests (please see ONE Amazon article below)? And will we be kept out of nature as has been increasingly happening already?
ONE Amazon and the "Internet of Forests"
https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/in-september-2022-one-amazon-and
Hey there - I’m looking for information on whether or not there are ways to prevent an investment firm from obtaining permission from the local government to tear down 2 acres of forest and build a subdivision. They own the property, I’m a tenant on the house that currently exists on the 3 acre total property. This is one of the only few forested areas in the area and many species call this place home. I refuse to lie down and let them obtain permits without a fight! They are currently in process of getting an archeological survey done - for what? I don’t know, the surveyor I spoke to said he couldn’t say as he was restricted by an NDA.
I do have a gofundme up to try and buy out the investors but I am not hopeful there. Any insight would be awesome!
Additional info:
-The original house was built in 1925 and still stands today.
-Renovations were done on the property without any permitting from 2018-2021.
-2 acres are fully forested, though there is a power line through a portion of that 2 acres.
-Animal species I’ve seen on the property include: white tailed deer, eastern coyote, eastern box turtle, pileated woodpecker, barn owl, striped skunk, common raccoon, eastern gray squirrel, melanistic gray squirrel, and many others!