Forest Emergency

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Forests are necessary infrastructure.

Yet governments are effectively subsidizing damage caused by logging corporations' with multi-million dollar water treatment plants and millions more in flood mitigation. So are insurance companies.

My initial reaction to Minister Parmar's comments was raised eyebrows and rolled eyes

A few weeks later, standing on the edge of a freshly logged cutblock in the Walbran Valley, his words seemed even more jarring

In fact, "the clearcutting continues as we speak" #bcpoli

🚨 STOP logging at Fairy Creek 🚨

Teal-Jones is seeking a permit to log old-growth beside the Fairy Creek deferral zone (cutblock 8027).

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📣 We need to FLOOD the Ministry of Forests with opposition
🕔 Takes 5 minutes
📅 Deadline: Feb 22

#fairycreek #logging #deforestation

Spain v social media giants: What's the big dispute about? Executives from X and Telegram have lashed out at Spanish prime minister over social media ban for minors.

Executives from X and Telegram have lashed out at Spanish prime minister over social media ban for minors.

‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks

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The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

A social media ban is effectively a ban on having friends who don't live nearby, which is what most under-16s use it for. For some kids, those friends are a lifeline

Over 10,000 OpenMedia Members Demand Withdrawal of the “Strong Borders” Act Bill C-2’s warrantless disclosure powers still loom. Now is the moment to stop Big Brother-style surveillance from coming to Canada.

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We have a new website!

www.stopcalderdaleenergypark.com

#savewalshawmoor
#stopcalderdalewindfarm #peat #moor #blanketbog #curlew #lapwing #merlin #skylark #sphagnum #walshaw #hebdenbridge #haworth #bronte #brontë #wutheringheights #plath #tedhughes #brontecountry #brontëcountry

This is the complete opposite of green. We need to keep forests to keep the planet cool, not industrial-scale solar which doesn't even work well on cloudy days.

And so much of this is probably going to power AI which we definitely don't need.

I'm currently awaiting the result of a public enquiry into a hideous ripping out of 40 acres of the forest I live in to create a solar park 🤯
I've spent so much time opposing this. Monitoring bats, amphibians, birds... so many red list species 😢
Classic eg of #ecocide and utter #greenwashing 🖤
#wasf

Officials unveil gargantuan energy plant the size of 185 football fields: 'A landmark achievement' "Represents a milestone for us."

Sold as “green,” but it’s still a sea of panels over living ground. On a planet running out of habitat, celebrating destruction as progress is self-delusion.
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Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.”

Recent archaeological findings by archaeologist Stéphen Rostain, reveal that the Amazon supported vast & complex ancient urban societies.

He’s hopeful that new archaeological understanding of the Amazon will challenge centuries of prejudice against Indigenous people & offer answers for the future.

An example of deferring to 'experts' without question. Fuel mitigation increases the intensity of wildfires. This is borne out by science which counters the forest industry narrative, something this article fails to do.

eco-integrityalliance.org/wildfire-fuel-reduction-scientific-studies/

Trouble in the Headwaters: new film links clearcuts to B.C. floods | The Narwhal Watch Trouble in the Headwaters, a short documentary about the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging and its connection to B.C. floods

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Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Bastyovanszky Stands Up For Democracy FINALLY, AT LEAST ONE COMMISSIONER STANDS UP FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE VANCOUVER PARK BOARD Brennan Bastyovanszky steps up to the plate The seven elected…

" . . . I have an issue with the $2 million . . . . the citizens of Vancouver [should] have a say about what's happening in their neighbourhoods."

--Commissioner Haer against increasing City's authority to outsource without a public meeting

@brennanbastyo.bsky.social

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Stanley Park Preservation Society makes the following simple and reasonable request:

Only trees individually and properly assessed as dangerous trees by certified independent tree risk assessors shall be felled in Stanley Park.

@brennanbastyo.bsky.social @tomdigby1.bsky.social
#stanleypark

YouTube video by Conservation North Logging's Final Frontier? How "Active Management" Imperils Forest Resilience

There was a webinar hosted by Conservation North a couple of days ago featuring two forest biologists and a retired forester who outline why active management imperils forest resilience.

youtu.be/dRn4dS3JVao

October 17th at 4pm (PST) is the next Forest Protection Forum with the Sierra Club, featuring Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala as speaker, former president of the Society for Conservation Biology.
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The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/11/26/margay-leopardus-wiedii/

The graceful small #wildcat 🐈😺 the #margay is 'Near Threatened' by #hunting, #palmoil #meat agriculture in #Mexico 🇲🇽 #Brazil 🇧🇷 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #Colombia 🇨🇴 Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🧐⛔️ be #Vegan 🥦👌 and #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social
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YouTube video by Conservation North Logging's Final Frontier? How "Active Management" Imperils Forest Resilience

There was a webinar hosted by Conservation North a couple of days ago featuring two forest biologists and a retired forester who outline why active management imperils forest resilience.

youtu.be/dRn4dS3JVao

Wildfire Fear and the Business of Logging - John Muir Project Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing titled The State of Our Nation's Federal Forests.

This is a very interesting article but unfortunately plays right into the hands of logging companies who are looking for an excuse to log. Scientists have found that fuel reduction increases the intensity of wildfires as it dries out the forest.

johnmuirproject.org/2025/09/wild...

Wildfire “Fuel Reduction” Scientific Studies When Active Management of high conservation value forests may erode biodiversity and damage ecosystems by David Lindenmayer, et al., Biological Conservation, 2025 “[T]hinning conducted ostens…

This is a myth propagated by the logging industry and is just an excuse to log. Fuel reduction exposes the forest floor to the drying effects of sun and wind and increases the intensity of wildfires.

Please see what the scientists have found.

eco-integrityalliance.org/wildfire-fue...

Jericho Park is a biodiversity hotspot for birds in the Lower Mainland.

Bad fire science can kill our threatened species. It’s time to cooperate with nature A new paper explores how a carefully controlled fuel reduction burn killed 17 critically endangered western ringtail possums.

“In 2018, a planned burn by local authorities was conducted in the Warrungup Spring reserve. Despite burning slowly as planned, it killed 17 of the 22 possums Dixon was monitoring.”
theconversation.com/bad-fire-sci...

(archive: 2013) Falmouth Wind Turbine Noise Studies #MA Presented at the 2nd Falmouth Conference on Human Rights, Oct. 19, 2013. Back to the Future … This is a true story, depicted by Marty and Doc. Their mission: identify the ignored warnings in the Falmouth wind turbine studies. Only then can Marty and Doc correct significant warnings in history that opened rifts into an alternate universe, where noisy wind turbines were permitted to invade homes. The wayback clock is set to: NOV 21 2003 … First study: November 21, 2003 Renewable . . .

(archive: 2013) Falmouth Wind Turbine Noise Studies #MA: Presented at the 2nd Falmouth Conference on Human Rights, Oct. 19, 2013. Back to the Future … This is a true story, depicted by Marty and Doc. Their mission: identify the ignored warnings in the Falmouth wind turbine… #windpower #windenergy

Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop logging Petition alleges contractor Blackwell doing more harm than good with $18 million operation

Stanley Park Preservation Society heads back to court in a bid to stop logging
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First Nations of light sacred fire in Stanley Park to oppose Park logging

Apparently there is a ton of logging in Stanley park right now and some first nations are goating a sacred fire to oppose it www.savestanleypark.ca go to the events news section of the website for information

The Park Board is logging Stanley Park of its hemlocks and some cedars. Most of it unnecessary as these trees are mostly sound and it's drying out the forest floor. How will the replacement of native Coastal Western Hemlocks with industrially-raised seedlings affect insect species in Stanley Park?