VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES —
Wilderness Committee and Wildsight have discovered legislative loopholes that enable extensive logging in critical southern mountain caribou habitat in B.C.

In 2009, the B.C. government put protections in place for deep-snow caribou — ranging from areas primarily off limits to the forest industry (no harvest zones) to areas where certain less effective prerequisites to log are in place (conditional harvest zones).

According to our new map analyses, more than 78 hectares of no harvest zones (NHZ) — set aside for caribou in the Revelstoke area — have been logged or approved to be logged since then. An additional 1,367 hectares were logged in conditional harvest areas since the protections were put in place.

Read more here: https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/bc-caribou