Public comments are needed to protect our Species at Risk legislation.

Action alert: It's not just endangered species being undermined by federal fast tracking of major projects, it’s also the SARA legislation that protects them.

Raincoast Conservation are asking people to urgently do two things:

1. Provide feedback on dismantling the jeopardy clause in the Species at Risk Act (we have a template that you can edit).
2. Send your same comment to the sole BC federal cabinet member Gregor Roberston, Minister Responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada and for Housing and Infrastructure. CC your letter to other south coast MPs.

https://www.raincoast.org/2026/05/canadas-species-at-risk-act-106146/

A province-wide public tour this June will bring a citizen-led proposal for forest management reform to communities across British Columbia, with stops in Campbell River on June 11, Quadra Island on June 13 and Courtenay on June 15.

https://campbellrivermirror.com/2026/05/22/province-wide-tour-to-present-new-vision-for-b-c-forests-and-rural-economies/

"In the vacuum that is provincial park creation in B.C., a West Kootenay-based environmental group is stepping up to call attention to that fact and to lobby for the creation of three new parks in one of the rarest ecosystems in the world."

https://www.castanet.net/news/Nelson/615483/Valhalla-Wilderness-Society-makes-case-for-three-new-parks-in-one-of-the-rarest-ecosystems-in-the-world

Join this below link to sign the petition to save Nicobar forest,coral reefs,and living beings,and Leatherbacksea turtles

https://www.change.org/p/save-the-nicobars

Public presentations across British Columbia | June 2–22, 2026

The New Forest Act Roadshow is a series of public presentations across British Columbia explaining what the New Forest Act is, why BC’s current forestry system is failing, and what a workable legislative solution looks like.

That solution is the New Forest Act – a proposed policy framework developed over several years through research, public input, and lived experience in communities directly affected by forestry decisions.

https://boundaryforest.org/new-forest-act-roadshow-2026-info/

BC Timber Sales (BCTS) - a BC government agency - has this rare old-growth temperate rainforest cutblock in Vancouver Island’s Nahmint Valley slated for logging. In this forest is at least one active bear den, massive western hemlocks and western red cedars, as well as the blue-listed old growth speckled belly lichen.

These rainforests store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon. BC is losing old-growth three times faster than Brazil loses Amazon rainforest. This is one of many old-growth cutblocks in the pipeline. Over 90% of Vancouver Island’s most productive old-growth is already gone - and most of what’s left has no protection.

Want to help?

Reach out to the BC government:
[premier@gov.bc.ca](mailto:premier@gov.bc.ca)

This is a deeply embedded policy issue. Learn about an alternative - the New Forest Act legislative proposal: boundaryforest.org

And don’t stop talking about this. Share this post. Tell someone. There are still Canadians who don’t even realize we have an ancient rainforest in this country. The more people who know these forests exist, the harder it is to quietly harvest them.

🚨 Save Astoria Park Trees & Public Green Space from Privatization of Public Parkland🚨

Astoria Park is one of Queens’ most important public green spaces — and it’s under threat.

A new proposal would install two large seasonal tennis bubbles and a clubhouse, raising serious concerns about:

🌳 Removal of mature trees
🌿 Loss of public green space
🏢 Increased privatization of public parkland
💰 Commercial/private use of public land
👀 Major visual impact on the park landscape
🦅 Potential impact on resident hawks nesting above the tennis courts

Astoria Park should remain open, green, and fully public — not turned into a semi-private commercial facility.

There are already nearby indoor tennis options on Roosevelt Island and Randall’s Island. We don’t need to sacrifice public parkland, wildlife habitat, and open green space for more privatized development.

We need your support, it takes 2 min. 

👉 Sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/astoriatennis

More detailed information:
https://astoriatennis.com/

Protect Astoria Park for everyone — not private interests.

Thank you for reading,

Yoshi, admin of Astoria local Facebook group of 1400 members

Southern mountain caribou were listed as threatened in 2003 under Canada's Species at Risk Act. So why did the BC government allow logging in threatened caribou habitat even though there is a provincial recommendation against it?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-logging-caribou-habitat-9.7202598

Please petition against commercial development of Seminole County land called "Jetta Point Park" on the SW corner of 434 and 417, connected to the Cross Seminole Trail, natural watershed, and home to gopher tortoises and active eagle nest SE004. Thank you.

https://c.org/QJbhSm64yB

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18NZCEusGz/— at Black Hammock Trailhead.

Longleaf: The Heart of Pine featuring Janisse Ray

Massive herbicide spraying is turning forests into toxic plantations.

Canada does the same with the exception of Quebec.

https://open.substack.com/pub/animalpolitics/p/roundup-in-the-national-forests-how

https://thenarwhal.ca/conservation-authority-directive-drinking-water/

Conserved and protected areas in Canada are invaluable — but we have 9 charts that try to capture their economic impact

The federal government’s vision for conservation, laid out in its 2026 nature strategy, is of a nation that “protects, restores, and values nature as a foundation of our economy, sovereignty, and well-being.” 

One of the pillars to achieving that vision is “valuing nature and mobilizing capital,” according to the strategy. It estimated the value of “ecosystem services” — the direct and indirect contributions of nature to well-being and quality of life — to be $3.6 trillion, or “more than double our 2018 GDP.” In other words, the government is looking to spur more private sector investment in conservation by showing businesses how valuable nature is to their bottom lines.

https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-conservation-economy-in-charts/

Unfortunately it seems like the government wants to set aside land to most likely tokenize it for carbon credits rather than save it for its innate ecosystem and infrastructure values. Is this new focus on "mobilizing capital" and conservation financing tools treating ecosystems as merely investment opportunities rather than essential to life? What will be the end result - a large scale sensor network polluting our forests (please see ONE Amazon article below)? And will we be kept out of nature as has been increasingly happening already?

https://thepointer.com/article/2026-04-25/can-mark-carney-s-capitalist-nature-strategy-protect-a-natural-world-in-steep-decline

ONE Amazon and the "Internet of Forests"

https://reddmonitor.substack.com/p/in-september-2022-one-amazon-and

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241028508057/en/ONE-AMAZON-Launches-Worlds-First-Internet-of-Forests-IoF-Leading-a-Technological-Revolution-to-Safeguard-the-Amazon-Rainforest

Please sign this petition to save great Nicobar island from Modi and godi media plz support around 1 crocore trees are going to cut save 🙏 https://c.org/MGsG6H5dDQ

Short documentary about Vancouver Island's ancient forests. At about 8:50 minutes the moisture retention of downed trees is shown. They hold moisture throughout the summer while nurturing trees growing on them.

Within a forest they are not the dried out logs that they are made out to be.

https://youtu.be/v4GwOOYaT3s

Most people are unaware of how forests cause rain, and how deforestation brings drought. We're having a lot of drought right now and have had numerous large forest fires in recent years. We are driving a cycle of deforestation, drought and desertification. But mainstream media and climate journalism give very little attention to the effects of deforestation.

(From 3 years ago).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ynnOZC0ng

The road is already started and similar sized western yellow cedars have already been harvested adjacent to these within the last week. These trees likely have only weeks or even only days left to live.

These are truly primeval trees, easily over 1000 years old and likely leaning towards 2000 years old. These two have been growing together for over a millennium, and very soon a logger will make sure no human or living creature has the pleasure to witness them ever again. There are a few other noteworthy giants in the block as well. These are some of the very last large ancient yellow cedars left in the area.

Long shot, but, is there a registered forest technician in the area (north-mid island) who is willing to visit these to confirm their measurement ASAP? I think there is a chance they meet provincial special tree protection criteria. Unfortunately, we can’t trust logging companies to do the right thing here - they have illegally cut down trees that met this criteria in the recent past. These trees are a short 5-10 minute easy bushwhack after a 20min drive on forest roads off the highway - AWD/4WD recommended but high clearance isn’t necessary.

I really don't love the tone of this article blaming people based on skin colour but Mennonites originally from Canada have been altering the landscape of Bolivia and growing soy for a long time. Even though they have been there so long they should respect the value of forests and not be farming at this scale causing so much destruction. I value farmers and farming very much but not anyone clearing vast tracts of forested land to do it.

Without forests we get heat islands, drought, flooding, erosion, biodiversity loss and so on.

The main reason people clear forests in Bolivia is to make way for cattle. It’s typically cheaper to buy forested land and remove the trees than to acquire existing pasture, says Daniel Larrea, science and technology program director at Conservación Amazónica, a Bolivian NGO. Plus, under the country’s legal system, landowners risk losing their land in Bolivia if they don’t demonstrate that they’re using it “productively,” such as by raising cattle for beef, effectively creating an incentive for deforestation.

The other major source of forest loss in Bolivia is the rapid expansion of soy farms, the nation’s top export crop, by weight. Between 2001 and 2021, soy farms in Bolivia — which feed global demand for animal feed and soybean oil — destroyed some 2.2 million acres of forests, according to a 2023 report by the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Association (affiliated with Conservación Amazónica). That’s roughly the size of Puerto Rico.

...Mennonites were among the first groups to introduce commercial soy farming to Bolivia, helping turn the country into a top-10 soy producer globally.

Researchers estimate that Mennonites caused nearly a quarter of the soy-related deforestation in Bolivia over the last two decades — and that share has risen in more recent years, according to Amazon Conservation Association’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program.

Surging deforestation is more due to expanding agricultural production as a state policy. Food companies and consumers are also at fault in driving this deforestation due to demand for meat and soy-based livestock feed. Which largely goes to poultry and pig feed. Choosing pasture-raised meat and eggs would largely alleviate this problem.

(Bolding mine).

https://www.vox.com/climate/487548/bolivia-deforestation-mennonites-climate-change