#saveoldgrowth — Public Fediverse posts

I got this book for free 😃 It's an incredible, fully illustrated, children's book about an old growth tree in an ancient forest & the wildlife, flora & mycelium, which all support each other in the ecosystem.

A Tree in the Ancient Forest by Carol Reed Jones & illustrated with drawings by Christopher Canyon.

A really wonderful, educational book that all ages would enjoy & appreciate. This was a fabulous #FreeBook score 💚 It doesn't fit inside my little free library so I'm gifting it to a nearby community center's children's library 😊

#Storybook #AncientForests #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #ChildrensBook #BooksForKids #NatureBooks #KidsNatureBooks #PictureBooks #IllustratedBooks #TreeLovers #NatureLovers #ForestLovers #ReadingRainbow #TreeHuggers #ForestStories #ReadMoreBooks #books #bookstodon #ecosystems #ecology #environment #biodiversity #coexistence #Nature

#TheKidsAreAlright 🌲💚🌲
Loving message, from a young child, who loves trees & forests🙏

#KidsKnow #ChildrensVoices #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #GreetingCard #WorthMoreStanding #ProtectOldGrowth #SaveOldGrowth #Conservation #NatureLovers #environmentalists #KidsFutures #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #CDNpoli #StopKillingForests #CapitalismKills #Gratitude

#FlashbackFriday 2019.

Big Lonely Doug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world. Found along the Pacific Circle Route, between #PortRenfrew & Lake #Cowichan - in the Gordon River valley range. It's surrounded by clearcuts. You can't miss seeing it because it stands out, amongst the ecocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #ProtectOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #PacheedahtTerritory #VancouverIsland #photography #VanIsle #Cascadia #Fir #ElderTrees #PacificNorthwest #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #CarbonSink #Ecological #Climate #Environmental #biodiversity #nature #WorthMoreStanding #BritishColumbia #Canada #Degrowth #StopEcocide

My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.

Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday

#ThickTrunkTuesday

No man is mightier than #MotherNature.

#VancouverIsland #nature #PacificNorthwest #wilderness #forest #VanIsle #Cascadia #Cedar #GetOutside #ecosystem #Ecology #Summer #ElderTrees #hiking #BigTrees #PNW #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #AncientForest #RespectNature #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #StopClearcuts #TreesOverGreed #MightyTree

Hard to show the scale of this old growth beauty from this shot. It takes about 4 humans, holding hands, to hug the whole trunk of this ancient yellow cedar tree.

Click on photo to see full frame.

#Cedar #Trees #Tlaoquiaht #Indigenous #TribalPark #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #rainforest #Tofino #MearesIsland #SilentSunday

2020 on #MearesIsland. #ThickTrunkTuesday

A colossal #ancient yellow #cedar #tree is part of the #Tlaoquiaht #FirstNations #TribalPark.
I hiked the big trees trails there - magnificent!

#OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #BritishColumbia #BCpoli #Canada #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #Ecological #Ecosystems #Nature #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #ClayoquotSound #ElderTrees #BigTreesOfBC #NativeParks #IndigenousParks

#ThickTrunkTuesday

This beautiful, ancient yellow #cedar tree has a massive, moss covered trunk. It is estimated at over 500 years old. There are very few #ElderTrees of this scale found outside of protected parks on Southern Vancouver Island now. The few remaining unprotected old growth forest tracts should be conserved for stability & longevity of our wild, ancient ecosystems & for the future generations to enjoy/admire/study.

The need to protect old growth forests has been the case for decades but even more important in present times because of accelerated climate change & the increased greedy desperation of corporate ecociders & our governments who aid/abet the pillaging which destroys wild environments that are essential for humans to sustain our lives on Earth. Valuable medicines are found & several medicines have yet to be found in these old growth, coastal temperate, wild rainforests. We need to protect these ancient forests for the above listed & many more important reasons.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #SaveOldGrowth #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #StopDeforestation #AncientTrees #OldGrowth #CedarTreeOfLife #WildFirst #NatureFirst #ProtectTheWild #ForestsForever #TreesOverGreed #StopEcocide #BCpoli #CDNpoli #Environmentalist #OneEarth #BCNDP #Cowichan #ProtectOldGrowth #Degrowth #BigTreesOfBC #CoastalTemperateRainforests #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #TreeLovers #Arbor #Trees #TreeHugger

#ForestFriday

A magical tribute to Canada's #GnarliestTree - in #AvatarGrove in #PortRenfrew.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/canada-s-gnarliest-tree

https://vancouverislandview.com/finding-port-renfrews-biggest-trees

We fought hard to save the ancient trees & their life-sustaining wild ecosystems, to get Avatar Grove area protected & turned into a public park. It was previously on the corporate deforestation list prior to the hard grassroots fight to save this area of Port Renfrew, where old growth forests were rapidly dwindling due to colonial capitalist style of short-term greedy gains & putting nature last. Nature should be first.

#AncientTree #ElderTree #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #Trees #Nature #SaveOldGrowth #CarbonSinks #AncientForest #ProtectForests #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ClimateChange #Ecology #ecosystems #Environment #forest #BCForestryReform #CedarTreeOfLife #ThickTrunkThurday

*Please note:
https://beige.party/@PhoenixSerenity/114966801236825439

The #documentary film that I'm featured in is now available for #free viewing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb4q_dXo7Bw

It includes footage & shared #deforestation issues with the #Amazon. It's all connected.

I'm holding back tears near the end of it. I was arrested a few days after doing the documentary film interview at gate to River & Landback resistance camps.

#DocFilms #EcoFlix #FreeDocumentary #DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #AmazonWatch

#ThrowbackThursday
Our first big #hardblock at #FairyCreekBlockade in 2020.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #Resistance #FairyCreekBlockade #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activism #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

#ThickTrunkTuesday
Magnificent #OldGrowth red #cedar #tree 😍

#AncientTree #ElderTree #Wsanec #Saanich #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VanIsle #VictoriaBC #YYJ #PNW #TreeLovers #TreeHugger #Trees #Nature #SaveOldGrowth #CarbonSinks #AncientForest #ProtectForests #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #ClimateChange #Ecology #ecosystems #Environment #forest #BCForestryReform #CedarTreeOfLife

My frontlines interview with Donna Clark from #XRVancouver has finally uploaded.

I talk about why I'm at the blockades. I talk about the ecocide on my family's matriarch homelands. I talk about the devastating & longterm effects of the US invasion on Vietnam. I talk about how we need to protect/study/find more ancient forest medicines. I talk about colonialism & brutalities. I talk about my amazing resilient villager relations. I talk about how ecocide destroyed my matriarch village ways of life.

I also bring up the sellouts.

We were carpet bombed by #USA #racist terrorists. Fact.

Please take the time to listen to what I have to say. Thank you for those who care enough to listen to me & why I keep fighting for a better world - for all of us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-EscumG-g

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #ExtinctionRebellion

#Cree bro-friend comrade, Daun/Totem, doing Indigenous drum ceremony at Waterfall resistance camp.

From 2021 frontlines.

#RainbowNation #DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance

#RainbowNation #Resistance.

With #SisterFriends at frontlines. Warrior POC women against ongoing colonial ecocide. I had not slept for 3 days & had not bathed in 8 days at that time. I was chaining myself to bridge & other infrastructure for over a week. I had experienced over 50 RCMP CIRG raids by this time & refused to stop fighting back. We, war survivors, do not back down from colonial forces easily.

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #Frontliners #Solidarity #Decolonize

Standoff between unarmed peaceful activists & militarized #RCMPCIRG - employed by #BCgovernment using #BCcitizens tax monies - in middle of the night. It was raining almost all day/night. Frontliners didn't budge ✊️

From 2021 frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

My friend, Jane, from Lake Cowichan, was the first senior citizen activist who was arrested in 2021, at Fairy Creek Blockades. She messaged before heading out to meet up with me at HQ camp. She told me she's never been arrested for protesting anything before but due to seeing too much ecocide still happening in her golden years - declared, 'Getting arrested for protecting Mother Nature is now on my bucket list"🌲💦 💗🦅🌲🦉🌲 Jane stayed at HQ camp for 2 nights & on her 3rd day, headed out to chain herself/walker to a tripod hardblock. Jane was arrested, along with 12 others that day, after several hours. Jane is a wonderful human being, a musician, a fibers artist, a Mother & Grandmother, who loves nature very much.

#RadicalSeniors #AwesomeElders #ClimateAction #Activists #AsianMastodon #AncientForestDefenders #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #OneEarth #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #environmentalists #ecological #ClimateChange #CarbonSink #BCOldGrowth #ProtectTrees #SilentSunday #Cascadia #RadicalSeniorCitizens #DirectAction #Resistance

It should be criminal to kill trees that are older than man-made cathedrals. The man-made cathedrals still get more protection status than ancient trees that are older than mankind. That is so very foolhardy & myopic of man.

#OldGrowthCedar #AncientCedar #ElderTree #YellowCedar #ClimateAction #Activists #AsianMastodon #ForestDefender #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #OneEarth #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #environmentalist #ecological #ClimateChange #CarbonSink #BCOldGrowth #Trees #SilentSunday

#VicPD asking us to move from BC Ministry of Environment & Climate offices. We refused to vacate. We shutdown building for 6 hours.
Building manager & landlord tried & failed to get us arrested ✊️

Urban frontlines 2022.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

Awaiting to be arrested (again) at HeliCamp - named because it was only camp that could take out activists via #helicopter.

This was a very remote, high up in mountain valley resistance camp that I first got death threats from one unhinged logger, from Lake Cowichan & told by one RCMP CIRG guy that I deserve to be raped.

2021 was a helluva year!

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

#FuckTheRCMP - they flew these #helicopters multiple times, daily, to try & intimidate us. We had Transport Canada verify that this helicopter maneuver & 3 other ones documented at other resistance camp areas was illegal & violated federal regulations but no action was taken to punish people responsible for violations.

This footage was taken before over 100 RCMP CIRG goons raided 4 different #ResistanceCamps.

Voluntary RCMP #CIRG unit was created in 2017 as a strictly corporate mercenaries unit in BC. Approved by #BCNDP government. The same government who has given them multiple budget increases - millions of #BCtaxpayers monies were used for that. Taxpayers monies were also used by #BCgovernment on attempts to criminalize environmental activists in BC courts. Some of the court cases are still ongoing.

RCMP CIRG is a fully voluntary unit & RCMP who choose to join the unit get paid more than regular RCMP goons. It's all about the extra money for these colonial greedy chumps.

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli

#FlashbackFriday Cultural #solidarity with #Indigenous land defenders in BC ❤️ Part of Last Stand for Ancient Forests citizens driven PR.

I'll post a past video of an interview I did from frontlines this weekend so folks will understand my strong solidarity stance better 💗

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #IndigenousViet #DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

Who are the #DomesticTerrorists here?

The unarmed #environmental activists or the state funded, militarized #RCMP #CIRG unit?

Who is the one fighting for humanity & protection of our ecosystems?

Who is protecting the profits only interests of ecocidal corporations & the sellout politicians?

Tell me - who are the real domestic terrorists that you see in these #photos.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes #Resistance #FuckColonialism

Part of the #RCMP #CIRG #DomesticTerrorists who violated multiple laws with impunity. This was taken about an hour before another very violent raid.

From the frontlines, 2021.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

#Grassroots #courage over #colonial #fascists ✊️❤️🌲

Staying calm while #RCMP #CIRG chumps surround & threaten you is #HumanityInAction. Most female environmental activists have more bravery than all #RCMP across #Canada 🙌

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #FlashbackFriday #PhotosThatSpeakVolumes

Me & Silena, Ojibwe sister-friend/comrade against colonialism, on the bridge between River & Landback resistance camps. (2021)

#Sisterhood #DirectAction #ClimateAction #Activists #POCWomen #IndigenousWomen #Solidarity #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #monochrome #PortRenfrew #FairyCreekBlockade #CDNpoli #WomenOfTheResistance #ColonialResistance #Decolonize #Solidarity

Twiggy leads #Indigenous #drumming & singing healing ceremony to help us deal with the multiple day/night raids at river & landback resistance camps. This was around 2pm in afternoon. River & Landback camp crews united for ceremony before going back to our old growth defense stations. By this time, both camps had suffered multiple raids by RCMP CIRG. I had not slept in 3 days. I was taking short rest breaks on cot on bridge, in between going into hard & soft blocks, all day/night for over a week. I chained myself to the bridge for 5 days prior to this ceremony & used a bucket to pee/poop - frontlines activism is not for the weak/people who can't survive without comforts.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #Activists #POCWomen #IndigenousWomen #AntiFascist #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #FairyCreekBlockade #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #Protest #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #IndigenousResistance #Solidarity

#Ojibwe sister-friend / #Indigenous comrade, Silena, doing some traditional #JingleDancing as part of remote healing ceremonies at our past landback camp (only Indigenous & #POCactivists at that resistance camp).

Learn more about Indigenous jingle dance & why it's important to native culture:
https://www.powwows.com/jingle-dress-dance/

#JingleDancer #IndigenousCulture #JingleDress #JingleDance #FirstNations #NativeCulture #TurtleIsland #ClimateAction #Activists #NativeWomen #IndigenousWomen #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #IndigenousResistance #NativeDance #Dancing

Part of #BCRCMP #CIRG unit. #RCMP are taxpayers/state funded, #DomesticTerrorists.
This corporate mercenaries unit only exists in #BritishColumbia & they're violent towards environmental & Indigenous activists. This unit was created solely to protect interests of private ecocidal corporations & they do not protect citizens. The unit should be abolished.

Please note: All of these RCMP thugs are wearing the #ThinBlueLine patch AND one of the bigot #colonizers had the nerve to wear a #MoosehidePin too 😤💩 None wore any identification badges & refused to provide their badge numbers when asked - which is illegal in BC, when they voluntarily interact with any citizen. A few of them(not in these photos) actually had put black tape over their identification badges too.

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB

#ThrowbackThursday
2021 was a big year for me & fellow comrades.

From my old deleted Tiktok.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Activists #environmentalists #ClimateChange #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #CDNpoli #Slideshow #photos #Frontliners

#FuckTheRCMP - they flew these #helicopters multiple times, daily, circling over us, to try & intimidate us. An hour after I took this vid clip - they flew above us again. I mooned them from landback resistance camp bridge.

The voluntary RCMP #CIRG unit was created in 2017 as a strictly corporate mercenaries unit in BC. Approved by #BCNDP government. The same government who has given them multiple budget increases - millions of #BCtaxpayers monies were used for that. Taxpayers monies were also used by #BCgovernment on attempts to criminalize environmental activists in BC courts. Some of the court cases are still ongoing.

RCMP CIRG is a fully voluntary unit & RCMP who choose to join the unit get paid more than regular RCMP goons. It's all about the extra money for these colonial greedy chumps.

2021, from the frontlines.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #BCRCMP #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #RCMPDomesticTerrorists #DefundRCMP

This was shortly after a disgruntled old logger guy & 3 RCMP CIRG falsely accused me & other protestors of being paid to protest 🤡 Also after CIRG set up another illegal, arbitrary exclusion zone.

I was saying at end of clip - You can't kill passion. You can't kill hope. You can't buy it either.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Activists #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activism #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback

The night before I was arrested(again) & detained for 3 hours. Slept in one of the converted old school buses.

From my now deleted Tiktok.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Activist #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #CamperBus

2nd clip.
#Memories of confusing the #RCMP #CIRG by having a #DanceParty & not being scared of the corporate mercenary thugs. It was raining almost all that day but our spirits weren't dampened.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Activists #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform

2021.
Protesting in front of BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy with Rainbow Eyes & Sage(Against the Machine).

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #Activists #POCWomen #IndigenousWomen #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #Protest #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #monochrome

The sentiment has not changed.
#FuckTheRCMP
Especially RCMP #CIRG - created in 2017 as a corporate mercenaries unit in BC. Approved by #BCNDP government. Same government who has given them multiple budget increases - millions of #BCtaxpayers monies were used for that. Taxpayers monies were also used by #BCgovernment on attempts to criminalize environmental activists in BC courts. Some of the court cases are still ongoing.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli

#Memories of confusing the #RCMP #CIRG by having a #DanceParty & not being scared of the corporate mercenary thugs. On the same day a bunch of comrades climbed on top of heavy machinery & refused to move off ✊️

Raven, the short Black-Latina woman with dreads, is a fierce & trusted frontlines sister-friend. She & I were one of a few POC women who were heavily targeted by the RCMP thugs.

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Activists #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Comrades #Activism #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform

#ThrowbackThursday
2021.

I still am unable to go back here physically because it would break my heart too much. I spent almost 9 months, on/off, in the forest - trying to save the old growth trees here. The trees you see on the mountain slopes here are all gone. They were clearcut since this photo was taken from a resistance camp, higher up in the valley. I have seen aerial photos of what this spot looked like in 2023 - so many damn #ecocidal clearcuts into #AncientForest groves. This backs into #Carmannah #Walbran Park - which was also under threat of logging for awhile. It had to be blockaded before protection was granted. Avatar Grove & a few other #OldGrowth areas on Southern #VancouverIsland were given protection because activists fought hard to gain it.

#BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #VanIsle #StopClearcuts #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #ClimateActionNow #ProtectOldGrowth

#MonochromeMonday

This is not progress.
This is not civilized.
We need to protect remaining #OldGrowth #AncientForests. They're our 2nd largest #CarbonSinks - after the giant kelp forests in the oceans. #Clearcutting forests should be banned.

#WorthMoreStanding #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #BritishColumbia #VancouverIsland #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #Ecocide #PacificNorthwest #photography #WorldInMyEyes #DisabledPhotographer #Backroads #VanIsle #Cascadia #PNW #Stumps #ProtectNature #ProtectForests #environmental #ClimateAction #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #HumanDestruction

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#Canada's gnarliest tree in #AvatarGrove #OldGrowth #forest.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/avatar-grove

#VancouverIsland #AncientTrees #nature #OldGrowthTree #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Trees #AncientForest #ProtectedTree #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #VictoriaBC #YYJ #PNW #VanIsle #WorldInMyEyes #TreeLovers #TemperateRainforest #TreeHugger #SaveOldGrowth

"The increasing severity of #wildfires and #drought highlights that reforming #ForestStewardship – taking better care of the forests, including safeguarding #OldGrowthForests – is one of our best hopes to protect communities across B.C.

Harmful #forestry practices like #clearcutting and #unsustainable #IndustrialLogging make extreme heat and wildfires worse. #Clearcuts are #tinderboxes, more prone to creating embers because dead trees and branches dry out in the hot sun and become more #flammable. Tree plantations and improperly tended young forests also increase wildfire risk: Younger trees have thinner bark and low-hanging branches that can act as ladder fuels, and the trees are often planted too close together, making it easy for fire to spread.

Fortunately, intact and properly managed #forests are more resilient to the worsening wildfires and heatwaves. For example, #OldGrowth #rainforests have dense canopies which provide cooling shade that resists fire. They are cooler and wetter than young forests, acting as giant sponges. Old-growth trees in the drier interior have thick bark, high branches and are widely spaced which all reduce #WildfireRisk.

#SierraClubBC #BCpoli #StopEcocide #BritishColumbia #Environmental #SaveOldGrowth #ClimateCrisis #BCNDP #BanCorporateLobbyists #Wildfires #floods #ClimateEmergency #BCwildfires #BCfloods #NaturalDisasters #ClimateMitigation #StopDeforestation #JustStopOil #DoTheRightThing #OneEarth #BCForestryReform

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#OldGrowth #cedar #tree covered in lush #moss & #usnea #lichen in deep woods of #CowichanValley.

#VancouverIsland #nature #RedCedar #AncientTree #hiking #Forest #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #NatureLovers #trees #PNW #VanIsle #woodlands #GetOutside #Trees #NaturePhotos #TakeAHike #GreatOutdoors #ProtectOurForests #LeaveOnlyFootprints #TreesAreEarthsLungs #SaveOldGrowth #SaveTheForests #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveBCOldGrowth #arbor #TreeHugger #DefendTheForests #WorldInMyEyes #ProtectWhatYouLove

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#OldGrowth #cedar #tree covered in lush #moss & #usnea #lichen in deep woods of #CowichanValley.

#VancouverIsland #nature #RedCedar #AncientTree #hiking #Forest #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #NatureLovers #trees #PNW #VanIsle #woodlands #GetOutside #Trees #NaturePhotos #TakeAHike #GreatOutdoors #ProtectOurForests #LeaveOnlyFootprints #TreesAreEarthsLungs #SaveOldGrowth #SaveTheForests #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveBCOldGrowth #arbor #TreeHugger #DefendTheForests #WorldInMyEyes #ProtectWhatYouLove

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#OldGrowth #cedar #tree covered in lush #moss & #usnea #lichen in deep woods of #CowichanValley.

#VancouverIsland #nature #RedCedar #AncientTree #hiking #Forest #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #NatureLovers #trees #PNW #VanIsle #woodlands #GetOutside #Trees #NaturePhotos #TakeAHike #GreatOutdoors #ProtectOurForests #LeaveOnlyFootprints #TreesAreEarthsLungs #SaveOldGrowth #SaveTheForests #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveBCOldGrowth #arbor #TreeHugger #DefendTheForests #WorldInMyEyes #ProtectWhatYouLove

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#OldGrowth #cedar #tree covered in lush #moss & #usnea #lichen in deep woods of #CowichanValley.

#VancouverIsland #nature #RedCedar #AncientTree #hiking #Forest #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #NatureLovers #trees #PNW #VanIsle #woodlands #GetOutside #Trees #NaturePhotos #TakeAHike #GreatOutdoors #ProtectOurForests #LeaveOnlyFootprints #TreesAreEarthsLungs #SaveOldGrowth #SaveTheForests #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveBCOldGrowth #arbor #TreeHugger #DefendTheForests #WorldInMyEyes #ProtectWhatYouLove

#ThickTrunkTuesday
2023.

#OldGrowth #cedar #tree covered in lush #moss & #usnea #lichen in deep woods of #CowichanValley.

#VancouverIsland #nature #RedCedar #AncientTree #hiking #Forest #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #photography #NatureLovers #trees #PNW #VanIsle #woodlands #GetOutside #Trees #NaturePhotos #TakeAHike #GreatOutdoors #ProtectOurForests #LeaveOnlyFootprints #TreesAreEarthsLungs #SaveOldGrowth #SaveTheForests #environmental #ecological #ecosystems #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveBCOldGrowth #arbor #TreeHugger #DefendTheForests #WorldInMyEyes #ProtectWhatYouLove

#StopDeforestation ✊️🌲🌳🙏

Two past #photographs together ->

#BigLonelyDoug layered over #deforestation #clearcuts 😢 in #CowichanValley
All the #OldGrowthTrees, in what used to be fully forested area, were razed down. This kind of reckless profits before planet #ClearcutLogging absolutely devastates #ecosystems & it annihilates #WildlifeHabitats.

Please join the ongoing fight to #SaveOldGrowth & for #BCForestryReform. We seriously need to transition & work on #NatureFirst #WildFirst solutions for a more ethical, responsible & sustainable future.
https://ancientforestalliance.org/

Read about Big Lonely Doug:
https://thewalrus.ca/big-lonely-doug/

#CutOutCorruptionNotForests #SaveOldGrowth #TreesAreEarthsLungs #VancouverIsland #ProtectForests #ProtectNature #VancouverIsland #StopEcocide #SaveTheForests #PauseTheSaws #EndClearcutting #StopKillingOldGrowth #TreesOverGreed #BCNDP #BCpoli #Environmental #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #EcoJustice #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #AbolishCorporateLobbyists #CrimesAgainstHumanity #BCNDPCriminals #Ecocide #BritishColumbia #Canada #BCNDPNatureKillers #SaveAncientTrees #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Treehugger #TreeProtectors #ForestDefenders #ActivismArt #WorldInMyEyes #ActivistPhotography #DisabledPhotographers #YYJphotographers #photography

An enormous #OldGrowth #cedar #tree has been identified in #VancouverIsland ’s #ClayoquotSound possibly dating back over a millennium. The western #RedCedar reaches a towering height of 46 metres and stands five metres wide at its base.

It is currently the sixth largest redcedar in #Canada - according to the #BCBigTreeRegistry 🌲

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/27/news/massive-old-growth-tree-clayoquot-sound

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #StopDeforestation #ProtectAncientForests #CarbonSinks #biodiversity #StopEcocide #ecology #BigTrees

#SuzanneSimard #majored in #ForestManagement at #UBC w/her summers spent working for a #LoggingCompany & the #ForestService .

She has drawn special #attention to so-called #MotherTrees , the oldest, most abundantly connected individuals, which play #indispensable roles in #nurturing seedlings & helping #forests #heal after disturbances.

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/33750-pioneering-forestry-researcher-suzanne-simard-to-receive-the-2023-lewis-thomas-prize/

#BritishColumbia #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #biodiversity #ElderTrees #protectOldGrowth #protectOldGrowth #AncientForests

I love #AncientTrees 🌲😍🌲 This #RedCedar #elderTree is over 1000 yrs old.

#WorthMoreStanding #OldGrowth #SacredForests #protectOldGrowth #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #irreplaceable #wilderness #TreeHugger #ProtectOurForests #ForestsForever #biodiversity #StopDeforestation #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #ClayoquotSound #MearesIsland #RespectNature #ProtectTheWild #WildFirst #OneEarth #ClimateChange #ForestProtector #Ecology #environmental