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#ThickTrunkTuesday
Mossy #OldGrowth #cedar trees in coastal temperate #rainforest.

#SaveOldGrowth #forest #trees #mosstodon #nature #wilderness #ecosystems #ecological #ProtectForests #ProtectTheWild #NatureFirst #TreesOverGreed #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Nitinat #ForestsForOurFutures #SaveForests #BritishColumbia #Canada #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Hiking

A low-angle shot of a dense forest focuses on tall, mature trees stretching upwards towards a partly cloudy sky. The massive trunks are textured with bark, and some are covered in bright green moss. In the foreground, a fallen log is also covered in the same vibrant moss. The overall impression is one of height, age, and the lush, damp environment of a temperate rainforest.

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#MosstodonMonday

Young #cedar #tree is all dressed in magnificent #mosses & #lichen 💚
One of the lovely sights you can see & admire, while exploring the coastal temperate rainforests in BC.

#Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #wilderness #forest #green #rainforest #ecological #biodiversity #ecosystems #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #ProtectTheWild #NatureFirst #StopDeforestation #TreesAreEarthsLungs #mosstodon

A dense, verdant forest scene featuring a prominent cedar tree trunk with branches heavily draped in long, hanging moss. The moss creates a sense of depth and an enchanted atmosphere. The scene is dominated by shades of green and brown, with filtered light creating soft shadows

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.

The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #SaveOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #StopDeforestation #AncientTrees #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #NatureFirst #ProtectTheWild #ForestsForever #TreesOverGreed #StopEcocide #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Environmentalist #OneEarth #BCNDP #Cowichan #ProtectOldGrowth #Degrowth #BigTreesOfBC #CoastalTemperateRainforests #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #TreeLovers #Arbor #Trees #TreeHugger

The image features the base of a massive yellow cedar tree in a dense forest. The ancient tree's thick, textured bark is heavily coated in green moss & lichen, in the damp, old-growth environment. Small ferns & leafy green plants grow around the base of the tree. Other trees are visible in the background, further highlighting the forest setting. The perspective is from a low angle, emphasizing the tree's size & imposing presence.

#Mosstodon

Our coastal temperate #rainforests on Vancouver Island are super lush with so much #biodiversity. They are worth conserving & protecting. These forests are also full of medicines, some yet to be discovered.

#moss #forests #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #nature #wilderness #hiking #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #ProtectForests #Trees #Ecological #ecosystems #Environmentalist #Green #AbundantLife #Biodiverse #NatureConservation #DefendNature #WildFirst #NatureFirst #Cowichan

An overhead shot of water flowing over rocks in a stream within a forest. The rocks are coated in thick, vibrant green moss. Lush greenery covers both sides of the stream, with ferns adding a touch of vibrancy. The water is clear to dark, cascading over the rocks.

View of dense, temperate rainforest. Ferns carpet the ground in shades of deep green. Trees, with trunks coated in moss & lichen, reach upward, some at angles. A fallen tree trunk lies among the ferns. The forest floor is damp & shaded.

#RespectTheLand

#Landback #MonochromeMonday #activism #IndigenousRights #EcoJustice #Environmentalists #NatureFirst #WildFirst #OneEarth

Klimaatcrisis
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#Klimaatcrisis
#Regen
#CO2
#Vissen
#ClimateCrisis
#WaterWorld
#SaveOurPlanet
#FishingAddict
#Waterscapes
#ClimateActionNow
#BlackAndWhite
#ProtectOurWaters
#FishermanLifestyle
#NatureFirst
#MinimalistNature
#LifeOnWater
#EcoConscious
#PlanetEarthFirst
#MinimalismPhotography
#CatchOfTheDay

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#Backroads on #DididahtTerritory.
This is part of the #SanJuanRiver & forests in the valley. The #watershed area is under ongoing #ecological threats by industrial #clearcut #logging. This is near #CarmannahWalbran #BritishColumbia provincial park.
The forests here are longtime foraging, mating & birthing grounds for the #CowichanValley Roosevelt elk herd. The San Juan is an important salmon bearing river. The old growth forests here are home to several #SpeciesAtRisk & #EndangeredSpecies.
There is ongoing eco activism work to try & protect more of the forests & #waterways in this #wilderness valley on Southern #VancouverIsland.

#SilentSunday #monochrome #Nature #WildFirst #landscape #photography #WorldInMyEyes #VanIsle #UncededNativeLand #Cascadia #environmental #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCForestryReform #forests #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #Conservation #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SaveOurForests #TreesOverGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #WaterIsLife #ProtectWatersheds #NatureFirst #Degrowth #ClimateChange #CarbonSinks

A black and white landscape scene featuring tall mountains in the background, surrounded by dense coniferous forests. A winding river reflects the surroundings in the foreground, with rocky banks and scattered vegetation along the edges.

May the #forests outlive us all.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activism #ActivistArt #ProtectForests #Canada #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #NatureFirst #Ecological

A painted sign saying: MAY THEY OUTLIVE US - With a tree & 2 red handprints on it.
Placed in old growth forest, amidst ferns & other forest plants.

I spent 3.5 months here in my first #CivilDisobedience action in my teens. Which led to a lifelong commitment to protect all old growth in BC.

Produced by Nettie Wild, Song by Bob Bossin. Featuring the 1993 Clayoquot Sound (Kennedy River Bridge) Logging Blockades.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_olVLUgKI

#ClayoquotSound #WarInTheWoods #ColonialResistance #Landback #Environmentalists #blockade #BChistory #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #CDNpoli #NoJusticeNoPeace #StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Tofino #VancouverIsland #Ucluelet #NatureFirst #WildFirst #Solidarity

BBC.com: Nepal floods: Almost 150 dead and dozens missing after days of heavy rainfall around Kathmandu

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qz82e7d1jo
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Really hope the corporations pumping death into the air are making impossible record breaking unfathomable profits year over year.
#Motherfuckers

#NatureFirst should have been the gimmick and reward and payoff.

#BritishColumbia #FirstNations are initiating an #emergency #salmon #TaskForce to investigate the impact on the #sockeye salmon due to last week’s #Chilcotin River #landslide.

“Chilcotin Rivers are kind of our identity,” Nits’ilʔin (Chief) Francis Laceese, Tl’esqox said at a press conference on Tuesday.

“Same with the salmon, you know, that’s basically who we are. That’s our biggest food source.”

#Tŝilhqotin National Government (TNG) is calling on all levels of government, downstream First Nations, the #PacificSalmonCommission, and other nations and states, especially #Alaskan #fisheries, to take all precautionary measures possible to conserve Tŝilhqot’in territory-bound salmon, and to immediately cease from fisheries that may impact these stocks, until the impacts from the landslide and breach are fully understood.

A massive landslide came down last Wednesday, damming the Chilcotin River, which leads into the #FraserRiver

https://globalnews.ca/news/10683723/b-c-landslide-first-nation-emergency-salmon-task-force/

#Indigenous #NativeBC #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NaturalDisasters #ThisIsNotFine #WildSalmonAlliance #WildFirst #NatureFirst #SaveWildSalmon #wildlife #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BCsalmon

The #Education for #Nature – #Vietnam #ENV, one of the country’s #pioneering social organisations in #wildlife #conservation, has released a 2 minute video clip titled "Chim troi keu cuu" (wild birds cry out for help) to urge the #community to refrain from #WildBird consumption and join #protection efforts.

The clip exposes haunting and cruel moments of the widespread destruction of the feathered animals, giving only a glimpse of the acts prevalent in many localities nationwide.

Vietnam is among the 25 countries with the richest #diversity of wild #birds species globally. However, #poaching and #IllegalTrading pose serious threats to hundreds of #indigenous and #migratory bird species in the country. In localities such as #QuangNinh and #ThaiBinh in the north and #ThuaThien - #Hue in the central region, #poachers employ sophisticated methods including decoys and birdsong mimicking devices to lure the animals, followed by nets, traps, or guns for capture. This rampant hunting seriously jeopardises Vietnam's #biodiversity.

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/clip-calls-for-protection-of-wild-birds-post290374.vnp

#AsianMastodon #Vietnamese #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #ProtectNature #WildFirst #SaveWildBirds #ProtectWildlife #AsiaPacific #NatureFirst

#FootpathFriday

Footpath beside the #river / #creek.
Ongoing nature restoration work happening at several parts of this nearby #Saanich #MunicipalPark.

#ColquitzRiver #ColquitzCreek #Wsanec #NatureRestoration #NatureStewardship #FriendsOfColquitzRiver #Watershed #SaanichParks #ProtectWater #WatershedWatch #SalmonBearing #FishBearing #nature #YYJ #VictoriaBC #Conservation #ecological #ecosystem #BCNaturalists #VancouverIsland #WaterGuardians #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #WildFirst #NatureFirst #NaturalHabitats

A footpath, on the right, beside a river creek, through the forest.

#TreeThursday

Terrific #Arbutus #tree ❤️
I have a few different fave #NativeTree species & #madrona arbutus trees are one of them.

#Nature #TreeLovers #Treehugger #Arbor #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BritishColumbia #BCCoast #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ProtectNature #ProtectTrees #ProtectForests #WildFirst #NatureFirst #Ecological #environmentalist #Sepia #monochrome #DisabledPhotographers #DisabledHiker #photography #YYJphotographers #NatureWalk #TreesAreFriends #WorldInMyEyes

Gnarly Arbutus tree in sepia.
Blurred on both framing sides.

The #CowichanRiver #estuary is one of the largest & most important in #BritishColumbia. The #watershed drains 90,000 hectares & provides #CriticalHabitat to dozens of #fish species, including #steelhead, #Chinook, #chum, #coho & #PinkSalmon, as well as brown, #cutthroat & #RainbowTrout. But the #Cowichan’s troubles are by no means unique; they are a #CaseStudy for a much larger problem.

#TimberCompanies store #LogBooms all along the #BCcoast, says Jamieson Atkinson, a fish #biologist & program manager for the #Aquatic #Research & #Restoration Centre at #BritishColumbiaConservationFoundation. “It’s shocking.” While #estuaries make up less than 3% of British Columbia’s coast, they provide rich #habitat for 80% of the province’s coastal #wildlife. The #FraserRiver estuary, near #Vancouver on the mainland, supports more than 300 species of #birds & 80 species of fish & #shellfish for at least part of their life cycles.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/07/05/Estuary-Marine-Life-Smothered-Timber-Industrial-Log-Booms

@thetyee

#BCpoli #environmental #WildFirst #ProtectNature #ProtectWildlife #Ecological #ecosystems #Conservation #VancouverIsland #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectWatersheds #StopEcocide #NatureFirst #VanIsle #Nature #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #PacificNorthwest #WildlifeConservation #HabitatRestoration #ProtectNature #DefendNature #PNW #IndustrialPollution #BanCorporateLobbyists

#StopDeforestation ✊️🌲🌳🙏

Two past #photographs together ->

#BigLonelyDoug layered over #deforestation #clearcuts 😢 in #CowichanValley
All the #OldGrowthTrees, in what used to be fully forested area, were razed down. This kind of reckless profits before planet #ClearcutLogging absolutely devastates #ecosystems & it annihilates #WildlifeHabitats.

Please join the ongoing fight to #SaveOldGrowth & for #BCForestryReform. We seriously need to transition & work on #NatureFirst #WildFirst solutions for a more ethical, responsible & sustainable future.
https://ancientforestalliance.org/

Read about Big Lonely Doug:
https://thewalrus.ca/big-lonely-doug/

#CutOutCorruptionNotForests #SaveOldGrowth #TreesAreEarthsLungs #VancouverIsland #ProtectForests #ProtectNature #VancouverIsland #StopEcocide #SaveTheForests #PauseTheSaws #EndClearcutting #StopKillingOldGrowth #TreesOverGreed #BCNDP #BCpoli #Environmental #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EcoJustice #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BCNDPCriminals #Ecocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCNDPNatureKillers #SaveAncientTrees #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Treehugger #TreeProtectors #ForestDefenders #ActivismArt #WorldInMyEyes #ActivistPhotography #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #photography

Big Lonely Doug, a giant old growth Douglas fir tree is on the left side. That photo is layered over a large, devastating logging clearcut photo.

If there is some sort of reckoning after we die, I will face the Creator and tell them honestly that I did everything I could to protect those weaker/less fortunate than myself and to protect Creation (with the exception of a few weak moments). We should all strive to live that way. If we're only accountable to the #Bumblebees, I'm fine with that. To me, #NatureIsGod. To go against Nature is to go against The Creator. Life on Earth is so precious. We should put #NatureFirst, #EarthFirst!

Op de Zuidas, #klimaatmars. Ook in deze omgeving zijn er verstandige mensen. Dat moeten ze in hun werk laten zien. #naturefirst op de ramen, in groene post its.

The #NatureConservancy of #Canada says a new #conservation area north of #Cranbrook #BritishColumbia will protect important #BirdHabitat & preserve #grasslands in the province's southeast.

The #conservancy says money from #GovernmentOfCanada & private donors went to buying up 271 hectares of land in the #Skookumchuk #Prairie in the province's southeast corner.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/nature-conservancy-of-canada-buys-b-c-grasslands-for-new-conservation-area-1.6903343

#Nature #GoodNews #Environmental #NaturePreserve #Wildlife #ecosystems #ecology #ProtectNature #NatureFirst

#naturefirst

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