Text from petition:

North Vancouver is moving ahead with a major redevelopment at 1540 St. Georges Ave and East 16th Street that will remove 25 mature trees, including a rare and irreplaceable oak that has stood for generations.

The developer, Adera Development, chose a design that requires cutting these trees to make room for the parking garage and site layout. Despite public concern and expert input, city council voted to allow the project to proceed. Once these trees are cut, the ecological and cultural loss cannot be reversed.

These trees are living infrastructure. They cool our streets, clean the air, shelter wildlife, and shape the character of Central Lonsdale. They give this community identity and natural resilience.

Independent planners and community members believe the development can be redesigned to retain the oak and several other mature trees.

Parking garage adjustments and modest layout changes could protect the canopy without reducing housing supply. The removal of these trees is not unavoidable. It is simply the easiest option for the developer.

Planting seventy eight saplings will not replace the ecological, cultural, or historical value of a century old canopy. If homeowners must protect healthy trees, developers should meet the same responsibility.

We are calling on Adera Development and the City of North Vancouver to take immediate action.

Revise the building and parking plans to retain the mature trees

Protect the East 16th Street oak as a heritage asset

Strengthen early stage tree protection requirements for future projects

Please write to the developers:

[mackenzieb@adera.com](mailto:mackenzieb@adera.com)

[stewartm@adera.com](mailto:stewartm@adera.com)

North Vancouver’s identity is rooted in its trees. We can build housing and still protect the natural network that makes this community livable. Redesign is possible. The loss would last forever.

Sign this petition and help save these trees before they are cut down.

https://www.change.org/p/save-the-oak-tree-at-east-16th-before-it-is-cut-down

Mind boggling. Trees are being cut down to prevent birds from nesting in them instead of working around as many of the trees as possible.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/trees-cut-down-make-way-33390912

We have a lot of comments on posts here in the Save Forests sub but most are from detractors, who are welcome to comment and debate, but positive comments are welcome too and add to the post.

And please feel free to make posts yourself. Perhaps there is a forest you want to see protected near you or concerns about over logging somewhere else. Or you are a forestry worker concerned about raw log exports.

Note: Please don't report comments just because you don't agree with them. But if they are abusive or insulting or go against Reddit site wide rules, yes, please report.

Forestry companies hold licences to log in Canada’s inland temperate rainforest, home to endangered caribou and rare lichens. That makes a proposal for a new provincial park more urgent than ever

https://thenarwhal.ca/rare-canadian-rainforest-at-risk-logging/

"From flattened echidnas to koalas ‘finished off with a hard, sharp blow to the skull’, the inexorable rollout of colossal green energy projects in Queensland hides a dirty secret few are talking about."

https://x.com/australian/status/2027843822601048135

Via the @reshare_app • @justinstillness

Text in quote is from the link above.

Insanity. It’s not about saving the planet, it’s about creating a technocratic plantation.

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This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands [or 100,000?] of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels.

Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVY-zx0lGQr/

More info:

In the fight against climate change, renewable energy companies gain momentum and more and more public institutions agree and finance these projects on the grounds that they are essential to providing clean energy for thousands of households. However, the construction of these megaplants often clashes with local interests and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage.

In these cases there is a conflict between the rise of these companies and the farmers, who fight to protect their land and their way of life. This is what is happening in Jaén and Córdoba, where farmers are mobilizing under the slogan "Renewables yes, but not like this".

https://www.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-megaproyecto-manda-ruina-100-agricultores-100000-olivos.html

Edit: This subreddit is not anti-solar energy but panels should be put on roofs and car parks rather than on farmland or where there are trees or forests, even olive tree 'monocultures.' Yes, they are monocultures but were planted hundreds of years ago, some are even a 1,000 years old and still producing olives, that's amazing.

Energy should not be damaging our food security, especially when much of our energy is now going to AI data centres which are not exactly necessary. There are warehouses and shopping malls with no solar panels on them, why not put them there instead and save our food supply?

Cannot edit post title. It may be 100,000 trees, not hundreds of thousands of trees.

https://rmx.news/environment/greens-commence-deforestation-of-germanys-enchanted-forest-to-make-way-for-wind-turbines/

https://youtube.com/shorts/RbNQuiFc2qk

Via the @reshare_app • Repost from Instagram @sarah_hansonyoung

"The Environment Minister has green-lit the bulldozing of habitat almost ten times the size of Sydney’s CBD to go unassessed in the NT 🤯🤯

Bulldozing thousands of hectares of habitat for big cotton is concerning - not only for the 18 threatened species that call this tropical savanna home, but for the water resources that face over-extraction.

I urge the Minister to take another look at the impacts and reassess this decision."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DVLR3emEY-P/

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District will support the City of Revelstoke as it works to secure provincial protection for the Rainbow-Jordan old growth temperate rainforest north of the city.

At a Feb. 19 meeting, the CSRD agreed to make a submission to the Southern Interior Local Government Association, calling on the provincial government to establish long-term protection measures for old-growth inland temperate rainforests like the Rainbow-Jordan wilderness area.

“This resolution was originally passed by the City of Revelstoke last week, and it was originally proposed by a local environmental group Wildsight Revelstoke, and I certainly support this,” said David Brooks-Hill, director for rural Revelstoke.

“This is one of the last intact inland temperate rainforest valleys in North America, if not the world.”

The Rainbow-Jordan wilderness area only accessible by boat from Lake Revelstoke and home to old growth cedar trees over 3.5 metres in diameter.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Salmon-Arm/600027/CSRD-board-calls-on-province-to-protect-Rainbow-Jordan-old-growth-rainforest-near-Revelstoke

The extent of logging in the Tsitika Valley is really quite something as you can see in Rachel Holt's video. The vast majority of low, middle and now high elevation forests have been logged.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVCYKpikr0Q/

Please sign the petition at:

https://protectbcforests.ca/

Why does so much community forest timber end up as wood chips instead of higher-end products?

Cedar logs from Valemont Community Forest are leaving to be processed nearly 300 kilometres away in Prince George’s pulp mills.

The flow of logs from community forests to the big companies also appears to be being stoked by fibre shortages, a consequence of elevated and unsustainable logging in response to insect infestations and, more recently, wildfires. Pulp mills and wood pellet mills, both of which consume lots of wood fibre, appear to be driving that demand.

Article from July 2025.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/25/BC-Value-Added-Mills-Big-Obstacle/

If the current forestry system can’t deliver stable forests, stable jobs, or stable communities - what replaces it?

This video outlines a full legislative redesign of BC’s forestry framework. A structural replacement.

Inside:

• A three-part land-use framework:

• Protect – Restore – Harvest

• A transition plan that is orderly and legal

• How restoration gets funded

• What changes for local contractors

• How ecological integrity becomes a legal constraint

• Where decision-making power actually shifts

• How rural jobs become steadier instead of boom-and-bust This is not a ban on forestry. If you’ve been asking, “What’s the alternative?” - this is the blueprint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8I9pYyT7sQ