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The “Avatar Grove” is a unique stand of old growth forest near Port Renfrew on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Last December, a group of concerned activists got together and decided to try to pressure the government to protect this public land from being logged. Headed by Ken Wu, this group [...]
With the recent passing of Bill C9, the federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Act has been radically altered, allowing for projects to be entirely under the discretion of the Minister of Environment. Instead of a study of the potential environmental impacts of an entire project, the minister could narrow it to only one small part. “There [...]
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Can you help save the Rockfish of Davie Bay? Texada Island lies in the Strait of Georgia, a short ferry ride from Powell River on BC’s Sunshine Coast. On the southeast part of Texada Island is Davie Bay, the sight of a proposed cement quarry. Friends of Davie Bay are fighting a proposal by Lehigh [...]
Environmentalists have been asking for a new national park to be created in the South Okanagan area of British Columbia. To understand the significance of this contentious area, you only have to look as far as Kilpoola Lake near Osoyoos. Bird Studies Canada lists Kilpoola Lake as an “Important Bird Area” with the following rare/endangered [...]
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There is a reforestation crisis in British Columbia and very few people know about its existence. Over 700,000 hectares once logged for timber are now barren landscapes; a gaping void on a sheet of statistics. On top of this, an additional 673,000 hectares of crown land has been burned due to forest fires. On top [...]
Picturesque scenes of apple tree blossoms against the backdrop of Okanagan Lake may no longer exist as fruit packing houses in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley are packing up themselves. In June 2008, the operations of four grower-owned packinghouses: Okanagan North Growers Cooperative, BC Fruit Packers Cooperative, Sun Fresh Cooperative Growers, and Okanagan Similkameen Cooperative Growers [...]
BC has no endangered species law to protect our most precious wildlife. There are over 1600 species that are threatened with extinction in BC. Some of these include plants and small insects which other species rely on for food. Where are they now? What is their future? If you want to learn more, go to [...]
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A while back, I wrote about the cheese company from Comox, BC called Natural Pastures which has been rearing happy cows on their environmentally certified Beaver Meadows Farm for decades. Now the farm is for sale! Kurt Nielsen of LandQuest Realty Corp has listed the farm for $18 million.
Whenever someone mentions squirrels, I shudder and remember the time that a bunch of Eastern Grey Squirrels made a home in the attic above the room where I was sleeping. Every night (until I got someone to shoo them out) about three or four in the morning I would hear them rustle about and it [...]
I thought the Great Bear Rainforest had been saved – didn’t the Premier sign an agreement a couple of years ago? Well, not quite. They put aside some land but apparently left it open to logging companies. The BC government promised to come up with forestry guidelines such as responsible logging in old growth areas [...]
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