by Working Forest | Oct 24, 2016 | Archives
B.C.’s Ancient Forest Alliance is hoping to draw Chinese language speakers to its cause by offering Stanley Park nature tours in Mandarin and Cantonese. “Our goal is to expand the ancient forest movement,” said Ken Wu with the alliance on Saturday,...
by Working Forest | Oct 24, 2016 | Archives
Is it time for a moose tax? Faced with declining game populations and the increasing complexities of wildlife management, people are starting to look at new funding models. And a tax to help moose and other game animals might be one way to go. A few years ago, in...
by Working Forest | Oct 24, 2016 | Archives
Conservationists have their eyes on a demographic that hasn’t been tapped into before in terms of educating people about British Columbia’s old growth forests. About half a million people in B.C.’s Lower Mainland are Chinese-language speakers, yet...
by Working Forest | Oct 24, 2016 | Archives
Photons journey from the sun to the leaf of a tree in the opening scenes of a Manitoba-made film that explores the science and wisdom of the world’s forests. Call of the Forest is a love letter to the world’s trees made over five years by Winnipeg...
by Working Forest | Oct 24, 2016 | Archives
Setting up a blockade has hindered rather than helped members of an aboriginal band who have been trying to stop a logging operation north of Fort St. James. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Duncan granted a logging company an injunction allowing the work to go...