A proactive new tool that can help preserve old forests in British Columbia has been developed by University of Alberta ...

A British Columbia Supreme Court decision undermines government claims that B.C.'s forestry laws are among the strongest in the world, environment groups said Friday, after losing a court battle to ...

BC Premier Christy Clark, left, celebrates protection of the Great Bear Rainforest with Dallas Smith, president of the Nanwakolas Tribal Council at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. British Columbia’s ruling New Democratic Party last autumn pledged to conserve 353,000 hectares (1,363 square miles) of old-growth forest. But so ...

RICHMOND, BC, March 19, 2025 /CNW/ - Canada's forest sector is an important contributor to our national economy. Since 2017, Canada's softwood lumber exports have been subject to unfair and ...

Canada is a big country with big landscapes, and nowhere more so than in British Columbia. Here, at the most westerly point of the country, where the ocean stretches ever-onwards to Asia, a hike is ...

In the public imagination, British Columbia is swathed in green and famous for its towering old growth forests. But while the provincial government says 23% of BC’s forests are old growth, a new study ...

When you pull on your boots and step into the deep greens of BC’s thriving coastal rainforest, there’s a palpable sense of release. Your shoulders loosen, your thoughts unscramble and your priorities ...

Increased scarcity of old forests of natural origin, and improved understanding of the ways in which they are ecologically distinct, have led to a need for standardized definitions for old-growth ...