Rising up from the ocean, the emerald green ancient forests of Meares Island form the backdrop of the tourist and fishing town of Tofino, BC, Canada.
What do blue whales, meadowlarks and Vancouver Island marmots have in common?
Two-thirds of BC’s land base – 60 million hectares – is covered in trees. Only about 22 million hectares of this vast forest was ever suitable for logging, and much of this has already been logged.
It ’s time to kick Canada’s coal habit
BC has a dirty secret: coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel of all and BC is North America’s biggest coal exporter.
Wild Pacific salmon – sockeye, coho, chum, chinook and pink – have always been at the heart of life and culture on the coast of British Columbia. But now, as wild salmon numbers decline steeply, the very existence of our once mighty salmon runs is at stake.
The proposed Catface copper mine encompasses a 4,000 ha area on Catface Mountain in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Wild places like Bute Inlet and Glacier/Howser Creeks are not only scenic areas, they are just a few of the hundreds of rivers and creeks that have become flash points over the last three years in the battle that is raging over private hydropower projects in BC.
The boreal forest, a region that makes up over half of Canada, is the home of many symbols of our national identity.
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