It found that the province could mitigate climate disasters such as flooding, droughts and fires by reforming the logging industry, applying Indigenous knowledge to forest-related decisions and protecting and restoring the remaining intact forests in the province.
Provincial data says approximately 447,000 acres of forest is logged annually, 70 per cent of which comes from the B.C. Interior. A 2017 Sierra Club BC analysis showed that 10,000 hectares of old-growth forests were logged in one year on Vancouver Island. “We really need to be focusing on the health of the forest and our real long-term vision instead of these very ‘near-term’ timber objectives,” he continued. “We have a chance here to protect the few remaining intact forests we have, restore the rest [and] manage that sustainably.”
Nine First Nation communities are currently under evacuation order in B.C., with 41 communities affected overall. On Sunday members of the Canadian Armed Forces reached some of the more isolated communities.
No Shit. Experts were saying this decades ago. The issue is the government never listens.
C_Somos Thanks for the covering this, and providing links to the report, much appreciated!
The logging industry in Canada is garbage. Everyone that works for it in anyway is garbage. They rape the land completely, they have no respect for nothing. I loved to see the logging industry in Nova Scotia collapse, it would be the best thing to happen here in a long time.
How about we do something by that will make a much more substantial and immediate impact and reform our government and political structure.
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