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Protecting Wild Lands

Each year humankind's appetite for the world's limited resources increases and development interests extend their reach further afield, wild places and their inhabitants become more valuable than ever. For this reason, we think big, pushing for more public awareness, stronger alliances and thus greater successes in protecting wild lands.

BC's Rainshadow Wilderness

The campaign to protect the wild lands in the Lillooet Region. The Wilderness Committee currently works together with the St’at’imc and the Tsilhqot’in Nation on protection of wilderness and strengthening of native practices and culture in the Cayoosh, Bendor, and South Chilcotin mountain ranges.

Boreal Forest

The Wilderness Committee has worked on boreal forest research and protection for decades. We were inspired to take action because the boreal forest makes up over half of Canada, is threatened on multiple levels by numerous industrial activities such as the tar sands, and has many wildlife and plants that are declining.

Clayoquot Sound

Proposals in 2008 to log in one of Clayoquot's pristine old-forested valleys has the Wilderness Committee involved in a renewed campaign to put the area's remaining intact valleys off-limits to the chainsaw once and for all.

Lower Fraser River Wild Lands

Evidence of ecosystem mismanagement in BC's lower Fraser River region abounds. This region in the southwest of British Columbia encompasses the areas commonly referred to as the Fraser Canyon, the Fraser Valley, the Harrison Lake area, the Chilliwack Lake area, the Skagit Valley and the Manning Park area.The wildlife species that best indicates healthy old growth forests, the northern spotted owl, has dwindled down to a handfull of individuals in the Lower Fraser River region and grizzly bears have been reduced from over 500 to only 17 animals.

Okanagan National Park

It's one of Canada's greatest conservation opportunities! It's the campaign to protect Canada's desert, grasslands and ponderosa pine forests in southern BC. The federal and BC governments are currently looking at establishing a new national park reserve in the hot, dry South Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys around the towns of Osoyoos and Keremeos in southern British Columbia.

Stop Old Growth Logging

British Columbia, Canada is home to some of the Earth's most spectacular, ancient temperate forests, including the world's largest Douglas fir tree (the Red Creek Fir) and second-largest western red cedar tree (the Cheewhat Cedar).

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