Environmentalists call on B.C. premier to protect old-growth forests
Posted February 6, 2019 8:54 am.
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VICTORIA (NEWS 1130) – Environmentalists are upping in the ante in their fight against more logging in British Columbia.
Members of Sierra Club BC and Leadnow are asking Premier John Horgan to protect one of the last intact stands of unprotected old-growth forest on Vancouver Island.
The groups plan on delivering a petition signed by 20,000 British Columbians to the constituency offices of at least five NDP MLAs.
They include the Vancouver-Fairview office of Environment Minister George Heyman, and the constituency offices in Langford-Juan de Fuca, Nanaimo-North Cowichan, Courtenay-Comox, and North Island.
The letter calls for the immediate protection of endangered old-growth forests across B.C.
In a release, the Sierra Club calls out the province for failing to take “meaningful steps to protect endangered ancient forests” since taking office.
