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Walbran Central is an online open communications hub of the growing community of support for the protection of the Central Walbran Valley ancient forests on southwestern Vancouver Island, traditional PacheedahtMore territory. This 485 hectare area, left out of the Carmanah/Walbran Provincial Park in 1994 encompasses an increasingly rare world class old growth forest habitat containing 500-1200 year old trees, stunning waterfalls, emerald pools and superlative wilderness camping and hiking and is an integral part of one of the last large unfragmented never-logged temperate rainforests left on earth.

This is also a forum for the public conversation about sustainable forestry solutions to continued old-growth logging in the Walbran valley and elsewhere in B.C.

Walbran Central is a public clearinghouse of information, logistical coordination, updates, reports, links and articles, action ideas, notices and announcements, critical perspectives, inspirations, rants and conversations supporting the protection of the Central Walbran ancient forest and a shift to a just, community controlled, ecologically sustainable forest economy on Vancouver Island.

We urge all members to exercise self-discipline in using language that is respectful and constructive and does justice to the great forests we are all trying to responsibly steward. Though everyone's healing process from the multiple traumas suffered from a capitalist and colonial culture that is inherently classist, sexist, racist, homophobic and transphobic is an important part of the work of transforming society, we ask members to please refrain from using this public platform as a vehicle for dealing with issues that are not directly related to ecological and forest policy initiatives. Thank you.

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UBCIC Chiefs-in-Assembly call for PROTECTION of FAIRY CREEK RAINFOREST and for an END to OLD-GROWTH LOGGING !!

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Breaking: The UBCIC Chiefs-in-Assembly call for the protection of The Fairy Creek Rainforest and an end to old-growth logging!!!

"The UBCIC Chiefs-in-Assembly call on the province to implement all 14 of theMore panel’s recommendations and to expand logging deferrals to encompass “all threatened old-growth forests” in consultation with First Nations. They also call for funding to support First Nations-led land-use plans, Indigenous Protected Area management, private land purchase, and conservation economies.”

Although the report and the Province’s renewed commitment to old growth are promising steps, there are still many concerns, including how BC is continuing with plans to log old growth and… More

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Reuben Garbanzo, profile picture
The NDP’s pre-election claim that it has "protected" nearly 353,000 hectares of old growth forests is all spin and lies.
Firstly, a two-year delay aka deferral in logging is not protection; and governmentMore figures, as usual, are totally, wildly and deliberately misleading: only 3,800 hectares of productive old-growth forest is being deferred, a mere 1% of the amount the NDP claims is off the chopping block for two years!
Lots of wool to pull, but our eyes are still open and witnessing the sham talk and log practises of this government, even as they try and foist their election propoganda on the vast majority of the population calling for an outright end to the liquidaton of these forests and a… More
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A Canadian company is planning to destroy the most biodiverse rainforest on Earth.

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Save Los Cedros Reserve
Environmental Conservation Organization

LOS CEDROS IS UNDER URGENT THREAT

The Tropical Andes are 'The Global Epicentre of Biodiversity'; more species are found there than anywhere else on the Earth.

The species richness of this extraordinaryMore eco-zone only increases towards the equator. In Ecuador the unique geography has generated our planet's most complex and hyper-biodiverse ecosystems.

Despite its small area Ecuador is home to 16% of the world's bird species; 22% of the world's butterfly species, 7% of all amphibian species, 7% of all mammal species, 10% of plant species, including 3,500 orchids — the most of any country on Earth.

Yet Ecuador has experienced among the fastest and most extensive rates of deforestation on the… More

Reuben Garbanzo, profile picture

Two months and four days ago, the Fairy Creek blockade began at a 1000 metres high up on a steep ridge over the Gordon river valley as an emergency stop-gap measure to prevent road crews from breaching theMore ridge that very day into the headwaters of Ada'itsx/ Fairy Creek, Pacheedaht territory, the last unlogged watershed still unprotected on the southern part of so-called Vancouver island.

That blockade on the Western flank of the watershed and another blockade on its eastern side, have held. There has been no further road-building into this sacred watershed behind the camps that have been diligently maintained since mid-summer.
The collective effort of hundreds of people staying on the… More

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ALJAZEERA.COM

Fighting to save the last of Canada’s giant trees

A century of commercial logging has placed primeval forests, and their thriving ecosystems, on the cusp of extinction.
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Vancouver Island, British Columbia – Canada‘s temperate rainforests, found on British Columbia’s Pacific coast, contain some of the largest trees in the world – after California’s redwoods and sequoias. TheMore oldest of those trees are located in the southwest of the province where prodigious rainfall and mild winters allow relentless growth.
John Zada: But more than a century of unrelenting commercial logging has placed primaeval old-growth forests – and the delicate ecosystems that thrive within them – on the cusp of extinction. Only a handful of the largest trees remain on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland areas of British Columbia.
Government regulation of logging activities in British… More
Reuben Garbanzo, profile picture

DIY carpool signup for those offering spaces or tryin' to catch a ride to Ada'itsx/Fairy Creek blockades

GROUPCARPOOL.COM

Carpool and Ride Share Signup Sheet for your Group.

Organize your group's carpool and rideshare needs! Stop using spreadsheets, they don't work. Use it for family get togethers, club outings, school fieldtrips, green weddings, camping trips, etc. Basically any trip with people and cars need to use this website.
Reuben Garbanzo, profile picture

In its headlong rush to extract resources from the living Earth as a crass formula for economic development, the government has its head up its ass and in the dark around the science informing us all thatMore ancient/ancestral forests left standing are critical to protecting future life on earth from lethal climate collapse eg more disease outbreaks, more and more vicious forest fires, more devastating storms.

Tinkering and talk and log and bogus logging deferrals in areas not even in the 'working forest' as 32 soccer fields of old-growth forest fall on this island alone each and every day, will not do!

Those participating in settler elections this week, please do not vote for any candidate who will not take an unequivocal stand to put immediate brakes on the egregious plunder of the last of the planet's natural climate guardians, the 1% of the big-tree old-growth temperate rainforests right here on these sacred stolen homelands!

SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM

Old-Growth Forests Help Combat Climate Change

Mature forests in colder climes may continue to store more carbon than they emit, thereby helping to stave off global warming
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More rambling lunch hour thoughts on old-growth/BC election campaign:
"Forestry has a bright future, but it has to be sustainable. And it has to recognize a whole host of values, not just as two by fours. ManyMore of the old growth stands on Vancouver Island are worth way more standing up than they are on the back of a truck."
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Believe it or not it was the Premier of BC, John Horgan, this morning.
Obviously this is giant 180 from this government's action on old-growth, and obviously this should be taken with a himalayan rock salt lamp-sized grain of salt. (Obviously all old-growth is worth more standing, not just that on Vancouver Island)
He went on… More
Reuben Garbanzo, profile picture

Creative acts of resistance exposing the vulnerability of the forests, her myriad life forms, our collective future and the sacred ecological balances that sustain us all, in these Extinction Times.

SUN, AUG 18, 2019

Vulnerability Vigil: The Trees are Our Elders

Trans-Canada Highway near the Cowichan Region Visitor Centre (by the BC Cutting-Down-the-Forest Discovery Centre), Duncan
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OLDGROWTHBLOCKADER.CA

Conservation North finds old-growth forests to be logged for pellets this winter - Old Growth Blockader

B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets Prince George plant will grind ancient cedar and hemlock into pellets to be burned for fuel overseas, destroying forest that’s [...]
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As quoted from a recent report:

"...Using photos and satellite imagery of both of British Columbia’s biggest pellet companies, Pacific BioEnergy and Pinnacle Renewable Energy, this investigation reveals withMore absolute certainty that wood pellets are being made from whole trees in British Columbia.

This investigation also reveals that:

• Pellets are likely being made with wood from threatened species habitat, and a growing wood pellet export sector puts additional strain on endangered species like woodland caribou.
• At the smokestack, burning wood pellets for power generation is worse than coal in terms of climate pollution.
• It can take decades to centuries for forests to regain the… More