Times Colonist

BC Timber Sales pauses logging in threatened caribou habitat

The B.C. government-run corporation responsible for administering a fifth of the province’s annual logging quota says it will pause new operations that overlap with habitat of a threatened caribou ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in BC.'s northwest

British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for ...
The Tyee

‘We’re Dying up Here.’ Inside BC’s Forest Industry Crisis

Unsustainable logging has seen trees and jobs disappear in the Mackenzie region. Photo by Goh Iromoto. Few communities in British Columbia have been hit as hard by the declining fortunes of the forest ...
The Tyee

Are BC’s Forests Running Out of Trees?

But then a century ago, B.C.’s colonial government began a bold experiment on its forests. It began to convert its ancient, unlogged forests into tree plantations and dole out a yearly logging ...

Should old-growth forests continue to be logged in B.C.?

British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, ...
News

B.C. approving thousands of hectares of logging in endangered caribou habitat, report finds

Thousands of hectares of old-growth forest — critical habitat for British Columbia's endangered southern mountain caribou — are currently slated for logging or have already been approved, according to ...
Times Colonist

Lichen, logging, land rights: Complex forces play out in fate of ancient B.C. forest

A forest and logging cut blocks on northeastern Vancouver Island are pictured in this June 11, 2025, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Joshua Wright (Mandatory Credit) A shaggy, cool-green ...
The Canadian Press on MSN

Why was an 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite BC's big-tree protection law?

Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of ...
Environment News Service

Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans

Old-growth trees are already being cut to make way for a logging road in the Argonaut Valley of British Columbia, August 2020 (Photo by Charlotte Dawe / Wilderness Committee) VANCOUVER, British ...
The Conversation

We can’t just walk away after the logging stops in Victoria’s native forests. Here’s ...

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Government, the Victorian Government and the NSW Government. He is a member of the Biodiversity Council and Birds Australia. Chris Taylor does ...
The Conversation

Has logging really stopped in Victoria? What the death of an endangered glider tells us

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Victorian Government and the Australian Government. He is a member of the Biodiversity Council and Birds Australia. Kita Ashman works as a Threatened ...