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Interior Watershed Task Force Presentation

msmk89 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:14:56 +0000

We will be doing a public presentation for the Interior Watershed Task Force on Saturday, April 13th called Primary Forests Today for Wildlife and Water Tomorrow. The event will take place in Vernon, BC. Stay tuned for more details. Is industrial forestry a threat to your local woodlands and wildlife? It’s more important than ever to learn about the measures we can take to safeguard…

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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework

msmk89 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:59:02 +0000

This is our letter to the Government…. To the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework team, We are a volunteer collective comprising academics, resource professionals, First Nations, forest industry workers, artists and the public. We recognize that communities of native species and their habitats have a right to coexist with humans. Employing both science and advocacy to improve…

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Solidarity with Hunger Strikers

msmk89 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 02:25:34 +0000

We are reprinting this story from today’s National Observer. Like the hunger strikers, we want old growth protection, NOT “sustainable” logging of them. Environment minister says he shares concerns of B.C. hunger strikers By Carl Meyer | News, Politics, Federal policy for B.C. | August 5th 2020 Two people are on a hunger strike on Vancouver Island, demanding an end to logging of old-growth…

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Conservation North Calls for Emergency Moratorium on Logging

msmk89 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:11:17 +0000

Research released today by independent scientists Dr. Karen Price, Dr. Rachel Holt and Dave Daust shows that old growth forests in BC have been logged to their ecological limits. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to spatially identify high-productivity old forests in the ‘red zones’ identified in the report and declare an immediate moratorium on logging there.

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Letters to the Old Growth Panel

msmk89 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 17:14:41 +0000

We submitted our letter to the Old Growth Strategic Review Panel today: Letter to Old Growth Review Panel Send your letter to oldgrowthbc@gov.bc.ca< by January 31st at 4:00 PM. Here are some letters that we received permission to reprint: Dear Garry Merkel and Al Gorley, I send this message to offer my voice to the current Old Growth Strategic Review. While other locations have “Wonders…

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Old Growth Review – Use Our Guidance

msmk89 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:24:04 +0000

The government-appointed Old Growth Strategic Review Panel is taking public feedback on what should happen to our endangered old growth forests. They have an online questionnaire for you to complete, so we’ve prepared a easy guide to help you fill it in. Please do this especially if you live in the Interior – they need to hear from us! Do it TODAY . You only have until Friday, January 31st.

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Statement of Support for Wet’suwet’en

msmk89 — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 17:43:56 +0000

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) states that “Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories. No relocation shall take place without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous peoples concerned and agreement on just and fair compensation and, where possible, with the option of return.” Given that both the…

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It’s About Forest Not Trees

msmk89 — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:43:13 +0000

Letter in the Times Colonist As a conservation group based in Prince George, we are concerned that BC’s “Big Tree Policy” is a cynical calculation to avoid the protection of old growth at a scale that is necessary to avoid ecological collapse. Protecting individual trees does little to protect the values that exist in our interior old growth forests. A few big trees do not a forest make.

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Caribou Myth VS Reality

msmk89 — Sun, 19 May 2019 20:55:49 +0000

On Tuesday, April 9th, Conservation North attended a community meeting in Prince George to discuss the province’s draft recovery plans for Southern Mountain caribou. Several statements were made that were misleading at best, and outright false at worst. We would like to address some of these here: MYTH: There is no data that snowmobiling affects caribou. REALITY: Intensive snowmobiling…

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