The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is British Columbia's leading conservation organization working to protect endangered old-growth forests and to ensure sustainable forestry jobs in the province.
Trees are the lungs of the world! Why in God's name is this being allowed? Answer: $$$$$ As for exporting them, boggles the mind! More people need to wake up and do something to save these wonderful Old Growth trees! It makes me want to cry. What is Pierre Poilievre's stand on this? Will he do anything if elected? Thank Goodness for Ancient Forest Alliance!
I am so glad you are there to witness and document this loss. Thank you for doing this. I've stopped at the few large trees on exhibit on the road to the Pacific Rim. Hundreds of people stop there to see that big trees really look like. I wish they understood that trees that these were once in the forests. This little exhibit reminds me of the tree museum in the famous song. That's what we do now, keep an acre here or there. And we don't tell the people who visit what an old growth forest is and functions and that we once had a lot of these. Thank you for this posting.
It seems unless it is in your backyard you just don't care. We just drove on Sointula Island and saw the same kind of massacre 😢 so much fo "Sacred Land"
The BC government is betraying us all with its deceit. Everyone has the responsibility to speak up and demand accountability. The government’s own scientific review panel insisted that awe inspiring and highly endangered old growth forests like this should be fully protected. There is less than 3% of this magnificent ecosystem left on southern Vancouver island and many species rely on this habitat. Where are they supposed to go now?? What right does humanity have to drive a species or an ecosystem to the brink of extinction, let alone in a dire climate crisis?? These forests are jewels of evolution and the lungs of the earth. Name the enemy here - Timber West and their greed, corruption and ignorance, and complicity with the gov’t which failed to provide enough funding for indigenous led land protection. It breaks my heart to see this video.
I have been up to some of those logging roads outside Port Alberni and the mess they leave up there and the large trees cut down and left behind with all their garbage is frustrating and sad.
Weird how humans advertise the great land we have , go camping enjoy the beautiful as behind the sense we are cutting more and more down with controlled nursery forests are soil is going bad and human population is not good. Money runs this sick society we don’t live with this land anymore no balance humans will pay the price nature wins always.
Canadians don't even realise what they have. None of europe has anything like these forests and they just continue to cut them down for short term money. So depressing.
Some people don't know that air grows on trees. We're having a going out of business sale on Earth. The breathable thickness of the atmosphere is incredibly thin compared to the vast vacuum of space.
These clearcuts should be treated as ecological crimes but of course nature won’t be represented in any court of law. This is what pure greed and corruption looks like folks. No politician will save these forests because in politics everyone is corruptible.
Great timber volume, that is so sad, that is not timber, that is wood and it's alive and well. No need to treat it like timber like or wooden table top...Leave it alone where it belong that's all.
Who exactly is buying an old growth tree? If one is cut down, what is it used for? Is it a deliberate act to provide a rare timber resource to a particular kind of people to furnish their private residences with ancient wood? Just doesnt make any sense whatsoever to remove such majestic structures from any forest, anywhere in the world! Someone must want the resource!!! But who and for what purpose? That’s what I'd really like to know.
It is the best quality. More hard than second growth it stays straight looks way better. It fights off bugs better. More clear wood less knots because it is so tall with branches starting far up the tree there is no comparison for old trees to new. But at the same time they help the planet so much. Taking toxic air from so high up and holding massive amounts of water in there mass and release it into the soil through out drought season. Without them it is almost certain that creeks run dry .
This tree and others like it, need immediate protection from logging before the parasites chop them down like they've chopped down millions of others around the world. Ancient trees of this size and stature are sacred and deserve to be treated as such. Thanks for the great footage, keep them coming.
This tree is thankfully protected within the Carmanah-Walbran Provincial Park! This area was preserved over 30 years ago due to the hard-fought efforts of conservationists and citizens of BC 👏
The Tla'min find six old growth trees on their traditional lands and respond by harvesting 1/3 now of them for canoes and saving the others for harvest by future generations. I don't know if I would call that being conservationists. Most of the rampant clear cutting that is taking place in the Powell River area is on Native Treaty Settlement Lands so I question whether they want to preserve the old growth in perpetuity or whether it will be for their use in the future.
Great work! I hope this vision for quathet is fully supported by the BC govt, it's a wonderful place with so much potential it's hard to imagine a place like it even exists in this day. A place that needs to be protected!
Thanks for your channel it's not even the most active but it is one of my favs just because it makes me think of how many hidden groves of beautiful trees may still be out there
Thanks! We wish we had time to release more of the footage we capture. Once the forests are safe, we can go back and edit the thousands of hours of incredible video we have! Until then, we'll keep doing our best ;)
I'm feel so humbled just watching this. I can't imagine the emotions and energy you would feel standing next to this. God's creations are so magnificent. Thank you for the care and effort you put into saving these beautiful old forest. There is so much to be learned from them. Blessings and prayers to these hardworking people.
Its stirring to now know that this single tree has been standing at this site for such a long period of time without any human eyes touching it. Amazing 'discovery' which will remain off any maps.
I'm just gonna state the obvious. Just because it's the first time it's been filmed or otherwise brought to the public does not mean it's the first time it's been seen.
