It's time to end old growth logging | Wildsight

Three years ago, B.C. released their Old Growth Strategic Review — and promised to implement its fourteen recommendations. Today, more than half of the old growth identified for protection is still in danger of being clearcut. More than a square kilometre of old growth forest is cut down every day in B.C. Not a single one of those fourteen recommendations has been fully implemented.

It's time to remind B.C. Premier David Eby of his government's commitment to implement the Old Growth Strategic Review recommendations. And the Premier needs to hear, loud and strong, that we don't want any more of our irreplaceable old growth forests logged.

We have so little old growth forest left. From mountain caribou to the Williamson's sapsucker, so many species need old growth forests to survive. It's time for B.C. to just stop logging old growth.

Send a message today to Premier Eby asking him to fully implement the recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review — and to end old growth logging in BC.

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To: Honourable David Eby, BC Premier
cc: Honourable Bruce Ralston, Minister of Forests
Honourable Nathan Cullen, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship

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Dear Premier Eby,

cc: Minister of Forests Bruce Ralston and Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship Nathan Cullen

We must protect our irreplaceable old and ancient forests. Your government has committed to implementing the Old Growth Strategic Review  (OGSR) and fundamentally changing our relationship with irreplaceable natural ecosystems here in British Columbia. Today marks three years since your government’s public commitment to implement the fourteen recommendations of the OGSR.

Today, I'm calling on you to act immediately to protect old growth across the province. We need your leadership to keep these ancient trees and their ecosystems alive.

Please act now to:
Implement a full and immediate ban on old growth logging. 
Immediately provide First Nations with funding to offset the economic impacts of reduced logging. Make a historic investment towards a dedicated provincial fund for Indigenous-led conservation solutions for at-risk old-growth.
Immediately give direction to statutory decision-makers, including the Chief Forester and district managers, to prioritise ecosystem integrity and biodiversity over timber interests. This means dramatically reducing annual allowable cut levels throughout the province. 
Immediately remove the drawdown provision that dramatically lessens the amount of old growth timber licensees are required to preserve in what the province has called low biodiversity areas (this provision applies to nearly half of the landscape in the Kootenay Boundary and Revelstoke regions and these areas are very rarely ‘low biodiversity’).
Immediately establish science based-targets for old growth retention under land use plans. 
Offer all needed support and remove barriers to speed up the pace of implementing solutions and fast tracking development of Forest Landscape Plans and modernised land use plans that safeguard biodiversity across the province.
Improve transparency by regularly sharing accurate and detailed information on progress implementing all OGSR recommendations with the public, especially deferrals (with details for every risk category), logging rates and the state of forests in B.C.

Sincerely,

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