Forestry

Arrests on the rise at protests against old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island

20/08/21
Author: 
Kathryn Marlow
Link: 
CBC News

Aug. 20, 2021

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RCMP turn out in force for mass arrests at Fairy Creek HQ

10/08/21
Author: 
Patricia Lane
Link: 
National Observer
Activists protesting old-growth logging at Fairy Creek form a human blockade to try to stop RCMP from raiding the camp headquarters. Photo submitted by @focus.wandering
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Second western Canada town destroyed by ‘exceedingly aggressive’ wildfire

08/08/21
Author: 
Leyland Cecco
Link: 
The Guardian
The charred remnants of homes and buildings in Lytton last month. Two people were killed in the Lytton blaze and most of the town destroyed. Photograph: Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters

Aug. 6, 2021

  • Residents of Monte Lake, British Columbia, told to evacuate

  • Village of Lytton devastated by wildfire last month

A second community in western Canada has been destroyed by wildfire as authorities in the region scramble to contain the destructive toll of climate change.

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B.C.’s rare inland rainforest at risk of collapse, international scientists warn in new study

30/07/21
Author: 
Sarah Cox
Link: 
The Narwhal

July 23, 2021

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The Social Life of Forests

30/07/21
Author: 
Ferris Jabr Photographs by Brendan George Ko
Link: 
New York Times
Tree Cover

This is a longish read, but it's a wonderful story of scientific discovery, which some of you may already know about. - Gene McGuckin

2020/12/02

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B.C. wildfires now burning ten times more than in 1990s

27/07/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
The most extreme wildfires in B.C. are now creating their own weather. Photo by NASA Earth Observatory

July 27th 2021

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‘Everything is on fire’: Siberia hit by unprecedented burning

22/07/21
Author: 
Andrew Roth
Link: 
The Guardian
Siberia hit by unprecedented heatwave and forest fires – video report

July 20, 2021

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Victory! Media coalition wins court fight with RCMP

20/07/21
Author: 
Ethan Cox1 Michael Simkin
Link: 
Ricochet Media
VICTORY

 JULY 20, 2021

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British Columbia
Canada
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Letter from John Cashore to John Horgan - very powerful

19/07/21
Author: 
Thomas Oatis Sandborn, John Cashore
From: Thomas Oatis Sandborn 
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:05 PM
Subject: Fwd: Letter from John Cashore to John Horgan - very powerful
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British Columbia
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Speaking for the Old Growth

12/07/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
‘These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,’ says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe.

July 12, 2021

Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan.

The world recognized tree botanist, biochemist and bestselling author Diana Beresford-Kroeger is angry.

“I’m furious actually,” she says over the phone from her home in Merrickville, Ontario.

“In this day and age I am furious that they are logging the last old-growth forests during a pandemic. It is sneaky.”

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