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Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #saveoldgrowth, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 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"
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lone

    #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

  2. #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

  3. Fellow #SaveOldGrowth forest defender, Sheena, made a short film. It includes the jingle dance circle with me & several other #environmental #landback #activists on the bridge between River & Landback resistance camps.

    River & Landback camps were main strongholds at Fairy Creek blockade. River camp was the first resistance camp set up in 2020 & it ran for a year before final big raid. There are 2 very rough logging roads that lead up to untouched old growth forest tracts from these camps. River camp is also where people could go hike to see/visit with Grandmother & Grandfather cedars. After we were removed, industry started cutting more roads up into the untouched old growth tracts. Teal Jones logging company has since pulled out due to financial issues & everything is up in the air at this time. Temporary deferral was renewed this year for some tracts by this one particular area in the watershed. Still hoping for permanent protections as the elder trees are not included in this small deferral.

    "My student documentary on the Fairy Creek/Ada'itsx old growth forest blockade 🌲 something of a collage, made with many hands and hearts. While the blockade and movement has evolved and gone through many stages, the momentum remains and many still carry forth the activism in heart and deed."

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OEGhjc

    #FairyCreekBlockade #DocFilm #documentary #ShortFilm #WorthMoreStanding #CivilDisobedience #LastStandForAncientForests #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Frontlines #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #DefundRCMP #BCForestryReform #ColonialResistance #ColonialViolence #StudentFilm

  4. We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

    #SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome #BCForestryReform #Cascadia #HelpMotherNature #StopKillingForests #Ecocide #SaveOurForests #ClimateINACTION #MonochromeMonday

  5. #MonochromeMonday

    Posting some of my older photos because I've been stuck at home for a bit & I have a ton of old photo memories.

    This is from 2021. I went up for frontlines arrestees court support in #Nanaimo. Pictured here with sister-friend Ojistoh, Grandma Losa, Chiykotin & sister-friend Raven(Wolf) in front of Nanaimo courthouse.

    #RainbowNation #POC #Indigenous #Landback #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #activists #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #LastStandForAncientForests #VanIsle #Decolonize #ColonialResistance #AbolishRCMPCIRG #DefundRCMP #EcoJustice #SocialJustice #Resistance #Dissidents #monochrome #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders

  6. 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

  7. #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

  8. The #BCNDP #BCgovernment has said no to a proposal to create a #ProtectedArea for an area of #OldGrowth #cedars near #DuncanLake.

    "At this time, #BCParks is not considering including this area in the provincial protected areas system," wrote Minister of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship #NathanCullen in a letter to Grant Trower of Howser, B.C., on Sept. 3.

    Trower is the founder of the group #WildlifeHabitatsForTomorrow that has been advocating for the protection of a 531-hectare grove and wetland.

    He wants #BritishColumbia to declare the #CedarGroves a protected area, which is a category of protection just short of a full-fledged provincial park.

    “There are many #trees in this grove that are well over 1,000 years old, and one that is estimated to be 2,100 years old,” said Trower. “They are the largest trees in the whole southern interior #rainforest. It isn’t just old growth. It’s #ancient old growth.”

    He told the Nelson Star that Cullen's letter will not deter him.

    "The advocacy is ongoing to ensure this special place will remain for our kids and grandchildren, for this grove is unique and easy to experience," he said, adding that the next steps will include media attention, targeted field trips and obtaining #FirstNations #endorsement.

    nelsonstar.com/local-news/bc-p

    #BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #ForestsForTheFuture #AncientForests #AncientTrees #Conservation #CarbonSinks #ClimateChange #ProtectOldGrowth #Cascadia #BCInterior #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #PacificNorthwest #CDNpoli #Canada #PNW #TreesOverGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #ElectionsBC2024 #BCVotes2024 #BCElection2024 #NeverVoteConservative #NeverVoteNeoliberal #BCNeoliberals

  9. #RCMP was ‘unreasonable’ when setting up exclusion zones around Fairy Creek protest
    By Leanne Sanders
    Sep 11, 2024

    The Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP - #CRCC says that the RCMP was unreasonable in setting up broad #ExclusionZones and checkpoints while enforcing a civil #injunction covering the #FairyCreek area in #BritishColumbia, home to #OldGrowth #forests and a #protest led by people trying to save them.

    “In its review, the CRCC found that the broad exclusion zones and checkpoints used by members of the RCMP’s Community-Industry Response Group #CIRG were unreasonable,” said the report released on Wednesday. “The review determined that the RCMP’s demand to search the complainant at a checkpoint on a public road was unfounded, and his arrest, after refusing to agree to the search, was groundless.”

    C-IRG is a low-profile RCMP group tasked with responding to protests and other public order events about resource based #industrial projects like #logging and #pipeline construction.

    aptnnews.ca/national-news/civi

    #AbolishCIRG #CorporateMercenaries #PublicTaxMoney #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #SaveOldGrowth #CriminalCops #CorporateGreed #BanCorporateLobbyists #RCMPCriminals #Ecocide #EbyTheEnabler #HorganizedCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #StopDeforestation #BanClearcutting #environmental #ACAB #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfDueProcess #CriminalsWithBadges #ThinBlueLineCriminals #RCMPThugs #CDNpoli #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle

  10. #MonochromeMonday

    They keep killing the ancients.
    Men who kill elder trees, are men who kill their children's futures.
    Souls must be disconnected from nature & their spirits desperate for money, for them to be OK destroying #OldGrowth forests, for a temporary paycheque.
    There are more ethical ways to earn a living.
    Stop believing industrial & government #greenwashing lies.
    #ClearcutLogging kills #ecosystems & throws #ecological balance out of whack.

    Government tells us to not fret, that they're managing #forestry better - they're #greedy, #sellout #LIARS. You can go see for yourself, how many clearcuts are still happening on big scales, at several places across Vancouver Island & some parts of BC interior where greedy corporations are decimating the last inland #TemperateRainforest in the world. Our #neoliberal BC NDP government is OK with ongoing mass ecocide - they get money from industry lobbyists 🤑🤮😡

    Don't stop, fighting to #ProtectOldGrowth #forests 🌲❤️🌲 #AncientTrees need #ForestDefenders in times of increased, rampant #CorporateGreed & sellout #ecocide enabling governments ✊️

    #BCNewDeathParty #BCpoli #SaveOldGrowth #DefendNature #TreesOverGreed #TreesAreEarthsLungs #Nature #ProtectNature #WildFirst #BCForestryReform #deforestation #StopEcocide #StopClearcuts #photography #BanCorporateLobbyists #DavidEby #BCNDP #EbyTheEnabler #ProtectForests #BCTourism #VancouverIsland #Cowichan #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #BCgovernment #BCNDPLegacyoOfDeath #StopDeforestation #OneEarth #BritishColumbia #Canada #WorldInMyEyes #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #Activism #ActivistPhotography #Environmentalist #EcoJustice #FightForNature #NatureGuardians #StopTheSaws #CrimesAgainstHumanity #morose #SuperUnnaturalBC #TourismBC #TourismVanvouverIsland #EcoCrimes #monochrome #BWphotography #BWphoto