Immediate action to protect at-risk old-growth was a key recommendation of the original report in 2020.
In the long battle over old-growth forests in B.C., September 2020 was a moment of hope.
It set milestone dates and a three-year timeline to implement necessary changes for old-growth protection and forest policy reform. The government committed to implement the report’s 14 recommendations in their entirety before calling a snap election in which they promised to protect old growth forests. Those three years have passed, though, and not one of the 14 recommendations is complete. At-risk old-growth forests continue to be clearcut. The NDP government hasn’t kept its promises.
That it took the provincial government more than nine months to begin determining what constitutes “at-risk old-growth” speaks volumes and is a perfect indicator of its pace. In 2022, more updates on the progress towards these deferrals were consistently packaged to sound as hopeful as possible. Then in February 2023, the government announced that 2.1 million hectares of old-growth has been deferred to date. It later clarified that less than half of that is within the area the technical panel had earmarked.
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