Phare Phoenix Plan: SC Catastrophic Fire Prevention Plan

Hey friends, this is the critical missing piece now in order to finally protect the endangered old-growth forests across BC - major funding from the province. P...lease SEND a MESSAGE to the BC government below, and SHARE! Funding is needed for First Nations to defer logging in critical old-growth areas in their unceded territories, to develop and manage Indigenous Protected Areas and land use plans that protect old-growth, to develop conservation-based economies (including tourism, clean energy, sustainable seafood, value-added second-growth forestry, non-timber forest products, etc) as an equivalent economic alternative to old-growth logging in their territories, and for a land acquisition fund to purchase and protect old-growth on private lands (largely on southeastern Vancouver Island). Without the adequate funding, it is simply not possible to defer old-growth logging systematically across the 415,000 hectares of remaining high-productivity old-growth and at-risk forest types, nor to legislate protection for it all on such a scale. For the BC NDP government to claim they support implementing all 14 recommendations of the Old-Growth Strategic Review Panel (the public input panel they commissioned which recommends immediate logging deferrals on all the high-productivity, most intact, and most at risk old-growth ecosystems) without dedicating the funding, is like a government declaring that they support health care and education without the funding. It is a hollow promise, unless the funding for First Nations protected areas planning, management and sustainable economic development, and for private land acquisition, are included in the process. Also needed are major incentives and regulations to transition the forest industry immediately into exclusively a value-added, second-growth industry in most of the province, to support the tends of thousands of BC forestry workers. Here is our new Action Alert (please SEND a MESSAGE): https://www.endangeredecosystemsalliance.org/news/ogbc Here is a key article in the Narwhal about conservation financing: https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-first-nations-conservationists-fi/ And here is a new CBC article about next steps for old-growth: https://www.cbc.ca//conservationists-demand-fast-action-fr