Old-growth trees are already being cut to make way for a logging road in the Argonaut Valley of British Columbia, August 2020 (Photo by Charlotte Dawe / Wilderness Committee) VANCOUVER, British ...

SEATTLE (CN) – British Columbia will stop logging in the headwaters of the Skagit River due to environmental concerns, the province’s government announced Wednesday. All timber sales in the area’s ...

The battle at Fairy Creek, a fight over some of the planet’s oldest trees, has raged for two summers and has led to the most arrests ever for a protest in modern Canadian history. At stake is some of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. British Columbia’s ruling New Democratic Party last autumn pledged to conserve 353,000 hectares (1,363 square miles) of old-growth forest. But so ...

Tension is rising between Canadian police and activists who have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island’s ancient forests. The protest has been underway for two years, ...

In the public imagination, British Columbia is swathed in green and famous for its towering old growth forests. But while the provincial government says 23% of BC’s forests are old growth, a new study ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan in ...

A forest and logging cut blocks on northeastern Vancouver Island are pictured in this June 11, 2025, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Joshua Wright (Mandatory Credit) A shaggy, cool-green ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has granted an injunction to a forestry company to halt a blockade against old-growth logging in the Walbran Valley on Vancouver Island, in a ruling that has been ...