Forest Practices and Climate Change

 

BC’s forestry practices are putting us all at risk of increased temperatures, wildfires, flooding and loss of biodiversity

 

British Columbia’s rate of deforestation has been compared with the Amazon and our forest practices and standards are certainly nowhere near sustainable.

 

Herbicide spraying

Logging companies in BC are required to keep competitive species at bay. Each year about 10,000 hectares are sprayed with herbicides. People are becoming more concerned about the effects of glyphosate exposure and spraying of berry and medicine patches important to First Nations people. Please see petitions below to stop herbicide spraying of forests (Calls to Action) .

 

BC Timber Sales

BC Timber Sales manages about 20 per cent of the province’s allowable annual cut for “Crown” (mainly unceded First Nations’ territory) timber.

 

Raw log exports

British Columbia currently raw logs rather than process them here as timber in BC. This is resulting in significant job losses and deforestation. By preserving old growth and limiting raw log exports we can protect both old growth and jobs.

 

Wasteful forest practices

Forestry practices in BC are extremely wasteful. Slash piles lay abandoned while trees are cut for the wood pellet industry for biomass burning.

 

 

 

 

 

URGENT

CALL TO ACTION

 

 

Help stop the proposed spray of herbicides

on berry and medicine patches in BC

 

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biodiversity Loss

 

Extinctions

 

Biodiversity and extinction

The BC government kills wolves to ‘save’ caribou when what is needed is to stop logging and other resource activities in areas where caribou live. Spotted owl habitat is being logged despite there being only two spotted owls, Canada’s last surviving breeding pair, left in the wild.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Articles

 

National ObserverGlyphosate spraying in N.B. akin to ‘eco-genocide,’ Indigenous communities say | June 2022

National ObserverTeacher’s fight against glyphosate pitted him against N.B.’s most powerful interests | May 2022

Global NewsCritics of herbicide spraying in southwestern B.C. call for more public information | April 2022

The NarwhalSpraying herbicides from helicopters? Concerns mount over plans for southern B.C. forests | April 2022

Vancouver is AwesomeWest Van council to pressure B.C. gov to extend herbicide spray feedback deadline | March 2022

Fraser Valley CurrentWhy BC uses herbicides to control ‘competition’ in its managed forests | March 2022

Fraser Valley CurrentHerbicide spray plan for Fraser Valley forests draws scrutiny| March 2022

North Shore NewsOutcry grows as B.C. government agency plans widespread South Coast herbicide spray | March 2022

Vancouver Sun B.C. government urged not to spray herbicides over fears they will contaminate Indigenous food source | March 2022

Maisonneuve Giving Up Glyphosate | Jan 2022

The Land Between Environmental impacts of glyphosate in Ontario’s forestry industry | Jan 2022

Conservation North Why is BC allowing the logging of primary forest for pellets? | December 2021

Prince George Citizen Prince George rally demands glyphosate spraying maps be made public | August 2021

Conservation Council of New Brunswick “Not the time for small goals”: Corbett calls for major forest management reform at Standing Committee meeting on glyphosate use | June 2021

rabble Stopping the ‘rain of death’ on Canada’s forests | May 2021

CTV News‘It’s a dead forest’: northern bush pilot, First Nations decry herbicide spraying | January 2021

CBC NewsProtesters in Prince George demand ban on controversial glyphosate herbicide | November 2020

The NarwhalNew research aims to uncover long-term effects of glyphosate spraying on forests | August 2020

CBC News‘It blows my mind’: How B.C. destroys a key natural wildfire defence every year | November 2018

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

 

Stop spraying BC forests with herbicide to kill trees like poplar that wildlife need

 

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

 

 Stop spraying glyphosate on Alberta forests

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

 

 

 

 

End the aerial spraying of forests in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) once and for all

 

 

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

 

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

 

 

Stop the use of non-essential chemical herbicides in Ontario’s public forests

 

 

 

TAKE ACTION

 

 

 

 

CALL TO ACTION

 

Doug Ford:
End the “Rain of Death”

Stop glyphosate from killing forests

 

 

 

 

 

TAKE ACTION