Only 1% of British Columbia's old growth forests remain, researchers find 

I hate that all the forest around the world are being cut down I wish more people cared about it

I’m beginning to think humans have never and will never see the big picture.

To see trees that old cut down is sickening. God help us

New growth forests also have less biodiversity, because the trees that were replanted are for commercial use.

This video deserves way more views! Thank you for raising awareness!

I was in Wilmington, North Carolina a few years back and at their port they had huge piles of wood pellets ready to be shipped to Europe for power generation. Their power generation is our deforestation.

why does ancient living things need to fall to satisfy the greed of the few mindless creeps

Man, these trees are huge. I can't imagine the carbon-sink loss that even one of these trees being cut would cause. Seeing hundreds of these logs is extremely depressing.

Ignorance, greed, stupidity lives within the Human Race

Temperate rainforests store twice as much carbon per hectare as the most carbon-dense tropical rainforests. Old growth trees are twice as adept at carbon storage as the amazon rainforest, and each old growth tree reduces carbon emissions to the equivalent of 500 cars a year. (Dominick DellaSala, president and chief scientist at the Geos Institute, and peer-reviewed article by Australian scientists, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Thank you SO MUCH for making this! Shared!

TLF 46, Teal Jones Group, with the permission of Premier Horgan have started cutting the last of the old growth at Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island, BC. Teal Jones in 2019 stopped logging the 2nd growth as they do not want to pay the stumpage fees to the province of BC. If they cannot have the old growth they will lay employees off.

Vancouver Island has the Oldest and Largest park in British Columbia, Strathcona Park, plus there’s hundreds of parks with old growth trees.Not to mention Thousands of parks in the rest of BC with millions of old growth trees in it!

What a big crock of BS. The protected areas have a higher percentage than that and there's still thousands of hectors that no one has done anything with and probably won't.

All you have to do is look at Google Earth and you can see for yourself that huge swaths of land in western Canada have been deforested.

Thank for this video, we need to protect our last little stands of Old Growth.

Is there a link to what they use the with the timber? I was so surprise that they are turn into wood pellets considering how valuable they are, I thought they're use to rebuilt ancient architectures like notre dame or something

Could we grow Giga farms worth of bamboo for wood heating pellets instead? Think of Tesla Gigafactories...imagine Giga farms...mass producing bamboo, food, biochar. If Tesla thinks we need 100 factories for renewables and clean transport, will we need 10,000 Giga farms around the planet for sustainability and reversing carbon levels?

It's common sense that a tree wouldn't be carbon neutral as the replacement tree would take as much as 100 years to be as big. And I'm not even trained in environmental science.

It should be illegal to cut ANY old growth forest

Thank you for the video

On Vancouver Island I've observed that the newly planted trees get cut after 30-40 years just as they're starting to efficiently capture carbon. After loggers do their clear cut the amount of non commercially viable fibre left behind is staggering. I'd be interested in seeing a non industry biased study to get the actual carbon footprint of logging in BC.

Thank you for the production of this informative video! But my question is a simple one, can we actually establish just how much old growth forest still remains? Is it 51,000 sq miles or in fact 15,000 sq miles ? Why the disparage in scientifically determining exactly (give or take) how much old growth forest is left either for commercial use or to be declared a sanctuary! I feel that if both parties the government and the scientific community work together in full partnership... a solution through a resolution might be better served ! Namaste

doesnt the arrest of a thousand protesters speak volumes against this sick cruel act

Thank you for sharing. I figured our tree's are going overseas big market for the ones cutting them down!

Spoiler alert: the government do anything! Horgan continues to sell it all out

Cut down for fuel what a waste

mass deforestation has created such a drastic change in our environment. forest fires be more prevalent than ever.

they are timbering for pallets? Here`s a fact, old dying trees release carbon.

Despicable.....trees is oxygen....fools....all they see is dollar signs...

I am calling B.S. on the statement that only 1 % of old growth remains in B.C.

Your ceiling is wood. Is steel or concrete More sustainable

B,C. has millions of hectares of trees to log off. Just leave Fairy Creek alone. The repercussions would last forever if you did.

As a BCian, yes it's too late. sold to the highest bidder

They won't money...

There incredible

Really! What a waste! So sad!

We have not only more people, but that compounded by more people living much more unsustainably.

Our Species many many centuries ago once Lived in the Trees. We lived Together with the Trees. The Forests gave us everything we needed to Live in Harmony with our Planet. Our Species is Doomed to go the way of many other species from this planet. Unfortunately there will be much Suffering before this Earth Purges our Species from it. Unfortunate.

1 percent eh ,…….. I’m going to call bull shit , cause I’ve seen with my own eyes more than that

omg how could people with half a brain allow this. we do need to breathe displacing thousands of animals its a crying shame

The British are the pellet industry

Mmmmmmmm I’m sad

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Propagate these trees and plant several everywhere.

Talk about some mis-information! Nice title... I have worked many years on the planning side of the operation. I have plenty of videos from helicopters that show endless amounts of old growth forests. Don't let someone's OPINION lead you down the fake news trail. Do some homework for yourself.

As I was watching I saw so Many DESEASED trees that were cut down. Look at the middle of the tree and see the voids....I Myself trust the experts that observe the trees and mark them to be removed. So many people think they know more than the experts that decide what trees need to fall and what trees need to stay.....AND all the COMPLAINING people in this video OWN A HOUSE MADE OF WOOD.....telling other people what to do when YOU are doing what YOU SHOULD NOT DO is call a HYPOCRIT....

Aaron Gunn has another perspective. Maybe you need to watch the other side: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nFlWy9LwDpc.html

Logging in BC is only done on Crown land tree farm licensed ..under strictly regulated guidelines in respect of cut block sizes and environmental guidelines under the BC forest practices code .. so the idea that truck loads of loggers go running amuck cutting everything in sight is false..it's a highly managed resource.

We cant breath with out the trees! Epic! One planet! Who takes care of our planet?

I see alot of beetle kill left?

Better to take a wrecking ball to the Washington National Cathedral or Notre Dame than to cut down one centuries-old tree.

depressing for sure amidst climate crisis as well. i hope they keep hell hot nature destruction

I recently started logging for a job in the northern interior of bc.Its amazing to see some of the old cut blocks re growing into usable timber. one old trooper I work with is now logging the same block as he did when he was 15,The size of the trees are significantly smaller now. But still goes to show the sustainable of it of modern logging

remember the song in the year 2525 '' we taking everything this old earth can give but we aint put back nothing ,the good earth is made people expect more punishment

I guess more ppl need to read the lorax to there kids.

You are misrepresenting the data. 23% of BC's forest is classified as a working forest. This means 77% of BC's forest you cannot obtain a logging permit for. There is no shortage of old-growth trees in BC. As for harvesting old-growth for wood pellets? Wood pellet harvesting only happens in the BC interior. Not in the coastal rainforest. It would make zero business sense to turn a high-value old-growth tree into wood pellets. This video is produced by people who know nothing about the forestry industry.

Mmmm:mmmmm I’m sad

I saw the UK pellet burning power plants, burning so called renewable resources.... renewables are a crock. Nuclear would solve the immediate issue.

Evil!

Native Indians didnot cause this but Europeans who came to live in Canada ? first they destroyed their own forests in Europe, NOW ONLY 0.2 PROCENT IS LEFT

Shame on BC!! The nation shall go down in history as evil destroyer.

"Progressive government?? Dream on.

add some carbon tax ,every thing will be ok

The vegan tree lovers be like...

cut em all down

Sequester?? Really? A tree sequestering carbon? Now, why would anybody think he is spewing shit? People go off to college just to learn to talk stupid shit so they at least 'sound' smart.

And guess don’t be racist and that’s nothing to do with thisJust telling you that

Good burn it to the grou d dont cut wood

Makes me sick that they have to clear cut all our trees in Canada, I see it in Ontario too. Just leave them alone!

So in the title you say 1% of old growth forest left, yet in the video you say old growth is 1% of the land mass. This is inconsistent and in afraid you guys spreading misinformation here.

ok this is the deal .. will share and thumbup ..but only if.. will edit full screen faces out of my 85" tv ...else will not

then buy da wood from scoialist kgb buddy putin

What a bunch of bullshit, 1% left remaining. Lol, you'd make a good car salesman...

That's why God created the first bunch of trees millions of years ago during and after the dinosaurs. Not only that why God created trees thousands of years after the ice glance. But what do I expect people don't have respect when it comes with trees these days. But that's my opinion i guess..

there is no ecological reason to protect "old growth" a 350 year old forest is not significantly different from a 150 year old forest - in fact there are good reasons to cut it down, extract the value of the timbers and veneer and store that carbon (as building materials, musical instruments, furniture) for many decades there is no significant increase in biodiversity for temperate rainforest by leaving old growth to die, fall down and rot - as all trees do - in fact there is a decrease because biodiversity is more related to disruption than steady state (the exception may be decay microbes and fungi that would increase in a senescent forest) we have two strange partners in this "stop the logging" endeavor, perhaps one is funding the other I don't know - on one hand we have new age mysticism with fantastical beliefs ranging from animism to neopagan to anthropomorphism on the other we have imperialists - witness the inclusion of interviews and petitions by the Order of Canada, the direct propaganda arm of the monarchy... when the Normans conquered England in 1066 they created the Royal Forests upon which are based our national and provincial parks complete with wardens and rangers: originally the Royal Forests also had their own courts, which meted out punishments including mutilation and death we should abolish the Order of Canada at the same time we abolish national and provincial parks: a beautiful forest is one in a constant state of change (natural) with freshly logged, reforested and mature stands - if the mature forest is 200 years old we should log 1/200th per year with no exceptions - that way we get maximum environmental, economic and cultural value the idea that some section of forest should be left to die and rot because some fairy child or master of the hounds thinks so is pure nonsense