Your message for old growth

For more than 30 years, Indigenous Nations, local community groups and conservationists have fought to protect BC’s spectacular old growth forests.

Yet today across BC, only 2.7 percent of our ancient and most productive old growth forests are left.

Old growth ecosystems like the wet cedar-hemlock rainforests of the Inland Temperate Rainforest are among the most endangered ecosystems in BC.

Across British Columbia, we are still logging these rare forests that exist nowhere else on Earth. Current government policy allows the destruction of what little old growth forest remains in British Columbia. Without significant changes, old growth forests and the species that depend upon them will disappear.

Just before the election, John Horgan committed to implementing all 14 recommendations from the provincial old growth report. Please remind Premier Horgan and the newly formed provincial government that they must keep their promise and get to work immediately to protect old growth across the province.

Your message for old growth:

To: Premier John Horgan
Minister of Forests Katrine Conroy

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Dear Premier Horgan and Minister Conroy, British Columbia’s old growth forests are globally unique and deserve protection. Thank you for committing to implement all 14 recommendations in the recent Old Growth Report. But commitment is not action: we cannot continue to talk about protecting old growth while we watch it get loaded on logging trucks. I urge you to: • Work with Indigenous Nations, leaders, and organizations to determine the future of old growth forests. • Protect all at-risk old growth forests where ecosystems are at risk of irreversible biodiversity loss. Protections should also be prioritized in places like the Inland Temperate Rainforest, which is globally unique and among the rarest ecosystems in BC. • Declare conservation of ecosystem health and biodiversity of British Columbia’s forests as an overarching priority and enact legislation that legally establishes this priority for all sectors. Currently timber supply is the only overarching provincial priority for the forestry sector. • Support forestry workers and communities as we transition away from harvesting old growth forests. Support a just transition to a value- added and locally- beneficial forest industry that creates value for every tree that is cut instead of unsustainable cut levels and volume driven exports. Sincerely,
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