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Moratorium on logging in core caribou habitat needed
Wildsight is calling for an interim moratorium on logging and road building in core southern mountain caribou habitat until permanent protections are in place.
Old Growth Logging continues
Exactly three years ago, B.C. released their Old Growth Strategic Review — and promised to implement its fourteen recommendations. Today [...]
Logging threatens Columbia Wetlands
This 180 km-long wetland, stretching from Columbia Lake to Donald, is home to more than 300 species of animals, 65 of which are designated species at risk.
BCTS to Pause Logging and Road-building in Old Growth Valley
After significant public pressure, the B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales have committed to pause logging and road-building in a remote old growth valley north of Revelstoke
Logging endangers whitebark pine in the Elk Valley
Canwel’s recent logging in a sub-alpine bowl south of Fernie included endangered whitebark pine trees.
UBCM calls on Province to Regulate Private Land Logging
There is no legal requirement for logging practices on private land to be sustainable over time. This allows landowners to remove most or all of the forest cover in a short time period despite major impacts on wildlife, water and communities
Flathead Targeted for Logging
Plans for intensive logging and road-building threaten Flathead River Valley. B.C.’s Flathead River Valley is targeted for intensive logging and [...]
Wildsight supports biodiversity ecosystem health
Wildsight supports the BC government’s commitment to protecting biodiversity and ecosystem health and the creation of a law that would give overarching priority to biodiversity protection.
Wildsight welcomes $300 million for conservation
Today, Premier David Eby unveiled a new $300 million for Conservation Financing Mechanism that will help progress British Columbia’s mandate [...]
A New Era for Forests in British Columbia
After decades of forest management that has prioritized timber supply over ecosystems and the health of British Columbia’s forests, Premier [...]
Incomappleux Conservancy Created
Wildsight celebrates the creation of the Incomappleux Conservancy in the heart of the Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR). The Province is [...]
