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Video: Still time to stop logging in Manning Park Donut Hole
Co-Executive Director Joe Foy travels to the Manning Park Donut Hole to discover that logging road construction is at...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, citizens to protest federal cabinet meeting
NANAIMO - Hundreds of citizens are expected to take to the streets of Nanaimo today to protest the federal government...
Videos
British Columbia
TV News Story ‑ Federal Liberals face Trans Mountain opposition in Nanaimo
This is a TV news story about the Federal Liberal Cabinet coming to Nanaimo for a meeting. There is strong opposition...
News
Ontario
Canada Takes Action To Save the Bees
The Canadian government announced it will ban two pesticides that have been linked to the falling numbers of...
Videos
Video: Trans Mountain pipeline threatens the Fraser River
The Fraser River is at risk of a catastrophic diluted bitumen spill. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would cross...
News
NDP pressured by Seattle mayor to stop logging near B.C.‑Washington state border
Photo: In July, the Wilderness Committee explored an area near E.C. Manning Park and Skagit Valley Provincial Park...
Videos
TV News Story ‑ Pressure builds on BC government to halt logging in Manning Donut Hole
This is a TV news story about growing pressure from people in BC and Washington State to halt logging in the Manning...
News
Logging in Upper Skagit River watershed put on hold as Seattle has ‘grave concern’
Photo: At the headwaters of the Skagit River, in British Columbia, logged areas stand out from the dark-green forest...
News
Seattle mayor pressures Premier Horgan for 'immediate halt' to logging near Canada‑U.S. border
Photo by: Wilderness Committee Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has written Premier John Horgan to express “grave concern”...
Columns
Wilderness Committee submission to the BC government’s climate intentions papers
Overall, Wilderness Committee finds the measures proposed in the Clean Growth Intentions Papers underwhelming but we...
News
Ontario
Wilderness Committee concerned federal ban on bee‑killing pesticides will take too long
Today the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) announced a plan to phase out the outdoor use of two toxic...
Columns
British Columbia
Island Voices: NDP is destroying key forests
Ancient Forest Alliance campaigner Andrea Inness walks beside an enormous, freshly fallen western red cedar in the...
News
Clear‑cut logging discovered within area deemed critical for threatened caribou
Photo: The cutblock, located near the southern boundary of Wells Gray Provincial Park. (Courtesy Wilderness Committee)...
Videos
Video: Emergency order needed now for southern mountain caribou
Please write federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna and ask her to issue an emergency...
Columns
British Columbia
The movement to save old‑growth forests
This summer, you have an opportunity to escalate the movement to protect endangered old-growth rainforests in BC. Sign...
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