Research released today by independent scientists Dr. Karen Price, Dr. Rachel Holt and Dave Daust shows that old growth forests in BC have been logged to their ecological limits. Conservation North is calling on the BC government to spatially identify high-productivity old forests in the ‘red zones’ identified in the report and declare an immediate moratorium on logging there. Although all primary forests are important, the areas that produce the biggest trees (and are therefore most attractive to logging companies) are especially at risk right now. Old growth forest is irreplaceable and does not come back after it has been logged.

BC’s Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity is at this link: https://veridianecological.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/bcs-old-growth-forest-report-web.pdf