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The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is a registered charitable organization working to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
Authorized by Ancient Forest Alliance, registered sponsor under the Election Act, 250-896-4007.
AFA’s office is located on the territories of the Lekwungen Peoples, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.
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Creatively United for the Planet Supports the Ancient Forest Alliance
Happening this weekend to celebrate Earth Week! When: April 20-22, 2012 Where: 600 Richmond Ave at Richardson (St Matthias) The festival will raise needed funds for progressive environmental-based charities, including the Ancient Forest Alliance, while heightening awareness and initiating action for positive change in an entertaining and engaging way.
Celebrating Earth Day By the Sea and Supporting the Ancient Forest Alliance
SeaFlora, Wild Organic Seaweed Skincare, enters their 10th season of Wild Seaweed Tours starting this Sunday April 22nd from 9am to 11am at the Whiffin Spit Parking Lot with all proceeds donated to support the Ancient Forest Alliance.
Benefit Concert and Presentation for the Elphinstone Logging Focus
When: Saturday, April 14 Where: Roberts Creek Community Hall, Sunshine Coast Time: 7:30 to 10:00 pm Come join us for a fun evening of music, vibrant nature images, silent auction, and an opportunity to build community while supporting efforts by Elphinstone Logging Focus to raise awareness and protect local Sunshine Coast at risk forests.
TONIGHT! Natural History Presentation: Ancient Forests of BC – Ecology and Politics
The Victoria Natural History Society invites you to join the Ancient Forest Alliance¹s Ken Wu and TJ Watt tonight for a spectacular slideshow and talk on the ecology, wildlife, and politics of old-growth forests including Avatar Grove, Walbran Valley, Clayoquot Sound, McLaughlin Ridge, and the newly found Mossy Maple Rainforest (aka "Fangorn Forest"). Tonight, Tues. April 10th at 7:30 p.m. Room 159 of the Fraser building, UVIC
Easter Egg Gift Basket Raffle for the AFA!
Now until Easter, enter to win a gift basket containing a giant dark chocolate Easter egg, and loaded with gift certificates courtesy of local restaurants and cafes. The estimated value of this gift basket is over $220! Come on down to the Italian Bakery at 3197 Quadra st. in Victoria!
Harper changes the rules for the environment
Overfishing was partly to blame for the loss of salmon, Proctor said. So was predation by seals, sea lions and dolphins. But particularly galling was the free for-all in the forest industry: bridges and culverts disrupting streams, mudslides silting up the spawning gravel, the shock of blasting for road building killing roe.
Big Bass not Big Stumps! Featuring the musical stylings of: Grandpa Phunk, Nagdeo, 5am, and Commoddity
When: Saturday, March 24th Time: 7 pm Where: Felicita's Pub at UVic Come get your groove on, bring your friends, and join us for a night of SUB-atomic glitch hop, dubstep, and other bass heavy sounds with some of Vancouver and Victoria's hottest DJs!
Bluffs receive high-profile focus
A campaign to protect Stillwater Bluffs south of Powell River received high-profile help from a provincial organization recently. Jason Addy, of the Friends of Stillwater Bluffs, joined Ken Wu, co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, at a press conference at the Sooke Potholes. The groups were calling on the BC government to form a land acquisition fund dedicated to protecting parkland.
Minister costing logging jobs, critics say
B.C. Forests Minister Steve Thomson has overruled recommendations from his own advisory board on log exports dozens of times in the past three months, electing to send millions of dollars worth of raw logs to Asia rather than local mills.
Liberals ignoring committee on raw log exports: Dix
The B.C. Liberal government has, since December, been exporting raw logs that its own advisory committee has been saying should be going to producers in B.C.