The LATEST REPORT from Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia (CPAWS-BC) on Old Growth Management Areas has been released. 🌲🌄🌍🐾 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/eijitswd What are old growth forests? ✅ At-risk old growth forests are critically important to biodiversity in BC, providing wildlife habitat and fostering ecosystems with diverse plant and animal species. These forests store carbon, filter our air and water, contribute to soil richness, and provide many more ecosystem services, all of which humans need to thrive. Why are old growth forests vulnerable? ✅ Old Growth Management Areas are evidently falling short as a tool to foster biodiversity in BC forests and protect at risk old growth. Old forests representing highly productive and the most at risk ecosystems inside these management areas are being logged, and the vast majority of BC's old growth remains vulnerable to logging. How does logging affect old growth forests? ❌ Once old growth forests are logged, they are lost. Learn more at the link below via Meaghen McCord, Executive Director a CPAWS BC. 👇🏻👇🏻
Executive Director at Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance | Advocate for Indigenous-Led Conservation | Building Collaborative Partnerships for a Sustainable Future | Passionate about Protected Areas & 30x30 Goals
A report released by our team at Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia (CPAWS-BC) finds that areas the BC government counts as ‘protected’ and uses to conserve biodiverse old growth forests do not meet conservation standards and contain little old growth. “We’ve known for a while that OGMAs are poorly protected but these results were just shocking and show how far off conservation standards these protections are,” says Meg Bjordal, author of the report and the conservation research and policy coordinator at CPAWS-BC. “B.C. recently reaffirmed their commitment to protecting 30 per cent of the province’s lands and waters in the widely celebrated Trilateral Framework Agreement for Nature Conservation. To reach this target, the province must either take significant steps to meet protection standards for ‘other conserved areas’ or completely exclude OGMAs from B.C. and Canada’s tally of protected areas,” says CPAWS-BC Executive Director Meaghen McCord.