03/31/2026
All five members of BC’s 2021 Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) — the independent experts appointed to map old-growth forests in BC — say the province is failing to save old-growth today.
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In 2021, the TAP was tasked with identifying the most at-risk old-growth forests for potential protection. Yet today, about half of the most at-risk areas they identified remain at risk, and the BC government continues to approve logging in many of these areas while long-term protection plans remain unfinished.
That includes places like the Nahmint Valley near Port Alberni, home to some of the finest remaining tracts of endangered old-growth forest on Vancouver Island.
“Purposely causing extinction is not just a moral failure but also a high economic, ecological and social risk,” said the TAP members.
Since the NDP’s re-election at the end of 2024, the province has been backsliding on its old-growth commitments, and we commend the panel for speaking out.
In their letter to Premier Eby, they highlight a key missing solution to protect the remaining old-growth in BC: the need for “solutions-space funding” to compensate First Nations for lost forestry revenues when they choose to defer logging in at-risk old-growth forests — something AFA has also long called for.
Protecting old-growth forests in BC is critical to building a truly resilient and sustainable future for forests, people, and the economy – needed now more than ever.
It’s time the BC government shows real leadership and delivers the funding needed to protect the remaining at-risk old-growth forests, instead of actively facilitating their destruction and blocking progress.
📰 See the full coverage in CBC News: https://r.pebmac.ca/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/old-growth-forests-bc-failing-to-save-9.7128469
📸 Before & after old-growth logging by BC Timber Sales – the BC government's own logging agency – in the Nahmint Valley.
