#ThickTrunkThursday #photography #ancientforests #pnw #vancouverisland #breathe

Great News! NDP will move to protect Fairy Creek
The newly signed Cooperation and Responsible Government Accord between the BC NDP and BC Greens reads: "8.b) Pending the resolution of existing legal proceedings and community negotiations, and in partnership with the Ditidaht and Pacheedaht First Nations, the Government will move forward to ensure permanent protection of the Fairy Creek Watershed." #FairyCreek #ancientforests #VancouverIsland

#sicilia #sicily #happyisland #isolafelice #italy
#BoschiVetusti #ElencoRegionale #BoschiAntichi #ForesteSiciliane #Ecosistemi #Biodiversità #ProtezioneAmbiente #PatrimonioNaturale #ItalianForests #TutelaAmbiente #SicilianHeritage #ForestePrimarie #NaturaIncontaminata
#Environment #AncientForests #SicilianForests #Ecosystems #Biodiversity #PrimaryForests #UncontaminatedNature

Ambiente, istituito dell'Elenco regionale dei boschi vetusti in Sicilia - Terrà https://terra.regione.sicilia.it/ambiente-istituito-dellelenco-regionale-dei-boschi-vetusti-in-sicilia/

This week, I am voting for #BCGreens. I'd #NeverVoteConservative & after what's happened to me, my family, my BIPOC friends & my clients under #BCNDP leadership, I'd #NeverVoteNeoliberal either.

No one can expect me to support #BCNewDeathParty after they keep approving more budget increases for #RCMPCIRG to protect #ecocide #CorporateGreed over protection of our environment/ecosystems, especially irreplaceable #AncientForests & over #BCcitizens #PublicHealth.

#BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath includes my Dad. Their lack of taking #Covid seriously resulted in him being infected in hospital by unmasked staff. It is unforgivable. This government is still aiding/abetting unnecessary infections, deaths & long covid disability.

#BCpoli #GreedKills #CDNpoli #EthicalVoters #BCElection2024 #BCVotes2024 #VotingGreen #VotingForSustainableFutures #VotingForGreenerFutures #VotingForHumanity #ProportionalRepresentationNOW #End2PartySystem #BanCorporateLobbyists #EcoJustice #SocialJustice #Environmentalist
#Decolonize #FightAgainstColonialism #WildFirst #WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #AbolishRCMPCIRG #CorporateMercenaries #KKKanada

#MonochromeMonday

This is not progress.
This is not civilized.
We need to protect remaining #OldGrowth #AncientForests. They're our 2nd largest #CarbonSinks - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. #Clearcutting forests should be banned.

#WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #BritishColumbia #VancouverIsland #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #Ecocide #PacificNorthwest #photography #WorldInMyEyes #DisabledPhotographer #Backroads #VanIsle #Cascadia #PNW #Stumps #ProtectNature #ProtectForests #environmental #ClimateAction #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #HumanDestruction

The #BCNDP #BCgovernment has said no to a proposal to create a #ProtectedArea for an area of #OldGrowth #cedars near #DuncanLake.

"At this time, #BCParks is not considering including this area in the provincial protected areas system," wrote Minister of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship #NathanCullen in a letter to Grant Trower of Howser, B.C., on Sept. 3.

Trower is the founder of the group #WildlifeHabitatsForTomorrow that has been advocating for the protection of a 531-hectare grove and wetland.

He wants #BritishColumbia to declare the #CedarGroves a protected area, which is a category of protection just short of a full-fledged provincial park.

“There are many #trees in this grove that are well over 1,000 years old, and one that is estimated to be 2,100 years old,” said Trower. “They are the largest trees in the whole southern interior #rainforest. It isn’t just old growth. It’s #ancient old growth.”

He told the Nelson Star that Cullen's letter will not deter him.

"The advocacy is ongoing to ensure this special place will remain for our kids and grandchildren, for this grove is unique and easy to experience," he said, adding that the next steps will include media attention, targeted field trips and obtaining #FirstNations #endorsement.

https://www.nelsonstar.com/local-news/bc-parks-rejects-protected-status-for-duncan-lake-cedar-grove-7523100

#BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #ForestsForTheFuture #AncientForests #AncientTrees #Conservation #CarbonSinks #ClimateChange #ProtectOldGrowth #Cascadia #BCInterior #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PacificNorthwest #CDNpoli #Canada #PNW #TreesOverGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #ElectionsBC2024 #BCVotes2024 #BCElection2024 #NeverVoteConservative #NeverVoteNeoliberal #BCNeoliberals

In late June, #BritishColumbia & #GovernmentOfCanada announced that they’ve helped non-profit foundations & trusts buy 8 parcels of land from private owners for #OldGrowth #Conservation, largely on and around #VancouverIsland.

However, all but one of the #forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth #trees, defined by the #BCgovernment as 250-year-old #CoastalForests & 140-year-old forests in parts of the #BCInterior. Instead, 7 of 8 purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been #logged.

Photos taken by members of #environmental organization #AncientForestAlliance #AFA earlier this month show massive old-growth trees being logged by #BCTimberSales, #BCNDP’s own #logging agency, in the Nahmint Valley on Vancouver Island. Some of these trees are more than 500 yrs old, according to the organization.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/18/news/latest-old-growth-conservation-announcement-mostly-not-about-old-growth

#BCpoli #deforestation #clearcuts #VanIsle #EcoJustice #Ecocide #ecological #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #SaveOldGrowth #AncientForests #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #TreesAreEarthsLungs

#BritishColumbia #OldGrowth #activists have taken before and after photos of a large area of an #AncientGrove that was #clearcut on #VancouverIsland near #PortAlberni in the #NahmintValley.

The #AncientForestAlliance says that many of the massive #trees that were cut down were over 500 years old, some being up to nine feet across.

Now that the grove has been cut, they are urging the #BCgovernment to immediately correct misidentified #AtRisk #OldGrowth #forests that could be eligible for #LoggingDeferrals.

https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2024/07/old-growth-carnage-activists-concerned-over-clear-cut-forest-near-port-alberni-photos/

#StopDeforestation #BCpoli #PortAlberni #StopEcocide #SaveTheForests #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #AncientForests #BanClearcuts #PauseTheSaws #BCNewDeathParty #AbolishIndustryLobbyists #ClimateCrisis #CarbonSinks #Environmental #WildFirst #ProtectNature #Ecological #ecosystem #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #BCNDP #EbyTheEnabler

I'm going to bed thinking...at least I'll be dead & buried & not be alive to witness #humans killing the last of our #AncientForests.

I'll #nurture & #protect what I can, while alive. I will plant & sow, despite.

#China is home to around 200 #tiankeng, which are mostly distributed from the central #Shaanxi province down to the #GuangxiZhuang autonomous region in the southwest. Roughly 1/3 of the country consists of #karst — the highest proportion of overall surface area of any country in the world — compared with just under 1/5 in the United States.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/chinas-heavenly-pits-the-giant-sinkholes-that-have-ancient-forests-growing-within

#geological #sinkholes #AsianMastodon #Earth #AmazingPlanet #nature #Geology #Asia #EarthSciences #AncientForests #ecological

Belated #ThickTrunkTuesday entry.

This #ancient red #cedar is close to 500 yrs old. It's one of the last remaining #OldGrowth cedars within #CRD areas on South #VancouverIsland & we need rest of unprotected #AncientForests protected for perpetuity.

#WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #SacredForests #ProtectTheSacred #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #irreplaceable #TreesOverGreed #vanisle #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #PNW #PacificNorthwest #ProtectNature #BCNDP #BritishColumbia

Marco (Nostic) also uses #music as part of #environmental #activism 🎵🎶
Here's his #MusicVideo on #Youtube - please check it out & share if you dig it.

#Extinction - Nostic & Nicki
https://youtu.be/M95-dFMn2DY

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #SacredForests #ProtectTheSacred #PoliticalSongs #Ecology #FairyCreek #PortRenfrew #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #ActivistMusic #pacheedaht #dididaht #AncientForests #StopEcocide #biodiversity #StopDeforestation #hiphop

@thenarwhal They're going to kill the ancients 😞 #Death by a thousand #clearcuts in #BritishColumbia under #BCNDP aka #NewDeathParty

#ecocide #CorporateGreed #CurseTheEvilGreedy #deforestation #environmental #ecosystems #NDP #PNW #PacificNorthwest #VancouverIsland #Cascadia #ClimateCrisis #GreedKills #DavidEby #HorganizedCrimes #SuperSelloutBC #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismCanada #ShameOnBC #AncientForests #Ecology #MotherEarth #TreesOverGreed

#RedHandprint placed upon stump of #OldGrowth #tree #stump by one of my #FirstNations #Indigenous #ForestDefender sisters. To #symbolize the #killing of #MotherEarth by #colonialism & #CorporateGreed that's #AidedAndAbetted by #BCNDP #NewDeathParty in #BritishColumbia #Canada in #PNW on the global map. #deforestation of #AncientForests are #CrimesAgainstHumanity & #DavidEby helps facilitate more #HorganizedCrimes by #NDP in #BC - NDP are the new blues in BC & it's killing our province & peoples.

#FlashbackFriday
When I went up to #Nanaimo with some fellow #WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #Indigenous #activists to provide court support to our allies/accomplices arrested for protecting #AncientForests from #deforestation ✊🌲

Ojistoh, me, Grandma Losah, Chiyokten & RavenWolf ❤🙌🦅

#environmentalalists #ecojustice #SocialJustice #ForestProtectors #ActivistCommunity #solidarity #EarthProtectors #WaterProtectors #GuardiansForNature #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #NatureFirst #BCNDP #NewDeathParty

“Scores of abnormally hot summers showed up, many grouped into multiyear warm periods. But the new study shows that the last 40 years, driven by human-influenced warming, has been the hottest—and that 2021 was the hottest summer in the entire span.”
#ClimateChange #CO2 #AncientForests #globalwarming #heatwave #heatdome

#ForestFriday 🌲❤🌲

I'm a proud longtime #treehugger - I love trees more than most humans.
There's incredible #magical #pure #natural #energy in #forests - especially #AncientForests w/many #OldGrowth #trees still standing. It should be criminal to cut down #ElderTrees ✊

#Nature #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #TreesOverGreed #WorthMoreStanding #protectOldGrowth #SaveOldGrowth #LastStandForForests #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #CellphonePhotos

#SuzanneSimard #majored in #ForestManagement at #UBC w/her summers spent working for a #LoggingCompany & the #ForestService .

She has drawn special #attention to so-called #MotherTrees , the oldest, most abundantly connected individuals, which play #indispensable roles in #nurturing seedlings & helping #forests #heal after disturbances.

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/33750-pioneering-forestry-researcher-suzanne-simard-to-receive-the-2023-lewis-thomas-prize/

#BritishColumbia #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #biodiversity #ElderTrees #protectOldGrowth #protectOldGrowth #AncientForests

@thetyee All this #destruction - #murder of #AncientForests is only possible because of the #greedy #exploitive #BCNDP #NewDeathParty leaders in #collusion with #CorporateGreed diseased #EcocidalManiacs & now led by #DavidEby ( #AntiDemocratic #SelloutCoward ) - sitting #BCPremier #Manbaby who was heavily #groomed by #JohnHorgan 💩 #PathologicalLiar & expert in #HorganizedCrimes against #humanity 🤥 #SuperSelloutBC is becoming #SuperUnnaturalBC .
#ForkedTongues should be exposed & cut out.