'Heartbreaking' photos of a clear-cut of ancient trees on Vancouver Island show faults in the provincial government’s deferral agreement, conservationists say.
“Heartbreaking” photos of a clear-cut of ancient trees on Vancouver Island show faults in the provincial government’s deferral agreement, conservationists say.
AFA said some of the old growth trees measured upwards of 3 metres wide in a 25-hectare cutblock, the area equivalent to over 50 football fields, located on public lands in Tree Farm Licence 6, which is held by logging company Western Forest Products. The group says the area was not deferred from logging due to a mapping error.
Under mounting pressure in November 2021, the B.C. government agreed to implement temporary logging deferrals in 2.6 million hectares of the most at-risk old-growth forests in the province. The priority deferrals were identified by the Technical Advisory Panel , an independent old-growth science panel, to prevent irreversible biodiversity loss while a long-term land use plan was developed.
According to AFA, this loss of old-growth shows the issues of inventory errors TAP specifically mentioned in its report, and that it made clear the B.C. government should use on-the-ground assessments to identify and defer big-tree old-growth forests that were missed in their preliminary analysis.
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