Podcasts about ancient forest alliance

Let's meet Ken Wu, former Executive Director and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance, who has spent years protecting ancient forests in British Columbia, including being a major player in protecting the Big Lonely Doug.  Ken tells how he named the iconic Doug Fir tree which is located in Vancouver Island. He also talks about how the indigenous people of Canada play a vital role in protecting these iconic trees and how you can be involved in saving them for future generations.  For further information, you can find more information at Ancient Forest Alliance https://ancientforestalliance.org/.   This podcast is part of READ & RIDE, a program from Dirty Freehub that motivates cyclists to read a specific book that is tied to a Dirty Freehub bike route.  The book in this series is The Big Lonely Doug by Harley Rustad. For more information about the program:  https://dirtyfreehub.org/read-ride/biglonelydoug/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This podcast is produced by Dirty Freehub, a nonprofit organization that publishes hand-curated (and great!) gravel cycling route guides. Our mission is to connect gravel cyclists to where they ride through stories about culture, history, people, places, and lands with the hope that they will become involved as advocates, volunteers, or donors with organizations that protect and preserve recreation spaces. Our Podcast Channel  / ⁠The Connection ⁠ Our Route Guides / ⁠Dirty Freehub⁠ Our Ask / ⁠Donate

Meet TJ Watt, Big Tree Hunter and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance. TJ is an award-winning nature and conservation photographer from British Columbia whose images have helped bolster campaigns to secure the protection of important environmental areas. In this episode, TJ explains how he got interested in big trees, what it's like to climb into old-growths, and how he came about his Before & After photography series. He also explains his connection to the Big Lonely Doug, the 2nd largest Douglas Fir in Canada that is located in South West Vancouver Island. Visit TJ's website at tjwatt.com to see his Before & After series and other images of old-growth trees. You can follow TJ on Instagram at @tjwatt and @ancientforestalliance. Photo Credit: ⁠⁠TJ Watt⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠Ancient Forest Alliance This podcast is part of READ & RIDE, a program from Dirty Freehub that matches 5-star gravel routes with books to create a memorable journey. The book in this series is "Big Lonely Doug: The Story of One of Canada's Last Great Trees" by Harley Rustad. The bike routes for visiting Big Lonely Doug and other old-growth trees mentioned in the book will be available on Dirty Freehub beginning July 12, 2023.  For more information about the program, including a documentary video that follows TJ Watt as he hunts for the biggest trees on southern Vancouver Island, visit https://dirtyfreehub.org/read-ride/biglonelydoug/. This podcast is produced by Dirty Freehub, a nonprofit organization that publishes hand-curated (and great!) gravel cycling route guides. Our mission is to connect gravel cyclists to where they ride through stories about culture, history, people, places, and lands with the hope that they will become involved as advocates, volunteers, or donors with organizations that protect and preserve recreation spaces. Our Podcast Channel  / ⁠The Connection  ⁠Our Route Guides / ⁠Dirty Freehub⁠ Our Ask / ⁠Donate

On the show today: Jesse Miller - Social Media Educator, Founder Mediated Reality Sonia Fursteneau - Leader of the BC Green Party Reggie Cecchini - Global National Washington DC Correspondent Ian Thomas - Researcher at Ancient Forest Alliance

Our guest today has a Masters Degree in Biological Sciences and is a Research and Engagement Officer for the Ancient Forest Alliance.   Please welcome Ian Thomas to IMPACT. If you like what we are doing please like, share and subscribe to IMPACT @realimpactpod This episode is sponsored by :  -    - The Pachamama Alliance -Empowering indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their land & culture  www.pachamama.org Bio: Ian is a Research and Engagement officer for the Ancient Forest Alliance,  a non-profit organization working to protect BC's endangered old-growth forests. He works with the AFA to explore and document at-risk ancient forests, raise awareness of these precious ecosystems, and to engage with communities on strategies for forest conservation.  A biologist by training, Ian received his Master's Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Windsor in Ontario. Ian's work as a wildlife biologist has taken him to wild places across Canada. From the depths of BC's Great Bear Rainforest to the boreal forests of Saskatchewan; to seabird islands in the Maritimes, as well as further abroad to the cloud forests of South America, and to far-flung islands in the Tropical Pacific, these journeys have instilled in him a deep love and reverence for the dwindling wild places of the world. Ian is a passionate bird-watcher and naturalist, as well as a fanatical big-tree hunter. He is happiest when thrashing through dense underbrush, scrambling over deadfall, and wading through icy streams in search of scarce groves of undiscovered giants that still survive in the remote corners of coastal BC. (I don't have any social media platforms to link to) Ian's work takes him to wild places across Canada. From the depths of BC's Great Bear Rainforest to the boreal forests of Saskatchewan; to seabird islands in the Maritimes, as well as further abroad to the cloud forests of South America and to far-flung islands in the Tropical Pacific, these journeys have instilled in him a deep love and reverence for the dwindling wild places of the world. He works with the AFA to explore and document at-risk ancient forests, raise awareness of these precious ecosystems, and to engage with communities on strategies for forest conservation. Cause to support:  Nature Based Solutions Foundation: naturebasedsolutionsfoundation.org Ancient Forest Alliance:  https://ancientforestalliance.org @AncientForestalliance #forests #ancientforests #oldgrowth #endangeredecosystems #naturebasedsolutions #thewoldernesscommittee #Great Bear Rainforest #fairycreek

The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) is a non-profit conservation organization founded in September of 2018 by Canadian conservationist Ken Wu, working for the science-based protection of all native ecosystems and to support ecosystem literacy.   For over 30 years, Ken has been working to protect nature in Canada. Today, he is one of the country's most experienced working conservationists and currently serves as the Executive Director and Founder of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, a national organization working to advance the science-based protection of Canada's most endangered ecosystems.   He was also the Executive Director of Ancient Forest Alliance and of the Wilderness Committee's Victoria chapter, and before that ran various smaller conservation groups.  To day we chat with both Ken and Celina Starnes  EEA's operations and outreach director.   If you like what we are doing please like, share and subscribe to IMPACT @realimpactpod    This episode is sponsored by :  -       The Ocean Legacy Foundation  www.oceanlegacy.ca  and Trubeach - both helping stop the tide of trash in our oceans www.trubeach.co     Where to find EEA and NBSF Online   EEA   Website: https://www.endangeredecosystemsalliance.org/about    Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/EndangeredEcosystemsAlliance/  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkf-kARJ9FglopGx9jWCbuw  https://www.instagram.com/endangeredecosystemsalliance/  https://twitter.com/EndangeredEcos    Films: https://www.endangeredecosystemsalliance.org/video    Donate: https://www.endangeredecosystemsalliance.org/donation    NBSF Website: https://www.naturebasedsolutionsfoundation.org/    Donate: https://www.naturebasedsolutionsfoundation.org/donate    #EndangeredEcosystems #environment #environmentalprotection #saveourplanet @endangeredecosystemsalliance #kenwu @kenwu #NBSF #naturebasedsolutions @naturebasedsolutions @trubeach #trubeach #greatbearrainforest #wildernesscommittee #ancientforestalliance 

This podcast is a MUST LISTEN if you are concerned about old-growth in British Columbia. In this episode of The Public Circle Podcast I connect with Ken Wu, the former Executive Director of the Ancient Forest Alliance and the current Executive Director of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance. For the past thirty years Ken has worked on protecting high productivity old-growth in British Columbia. Starting in the Walbran and Clayquot forests, and as the former Executive Director of the Victoria Chapter of the Wilderness Committee, he is a leading advocate for old-growth protection in our province. Ken and I discuss the difference between low-medium productivity and high productivity old-growth. We highlight how government officials continue to mix and muddle the numbers in an effort to take credit for massive deferrals (more than 350,000 hectares) announced last September when in reality all but 1% of those deferrals were previously protected. We also discuss the need for British Columbia to create conservation financing and land acquisition funds to bring to the consultation table with Indigenous Nations. Otherwise, the province is simply asking First Nations to walk away from revenue and jobs that the provincial government would never consider asking any other community to do. With so little high productivity old-growth remaining time is of the essence. Please share this podcast far and wide! Thank you.

Episode 16 Today it is my pleasure to introduce to you Ken Wu. Ken is the executive director of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, a new national Canadian conservation organization advocating the science-based protection of native ecosystems, seeking to engage non-traditional allies of the environmental movement, and working to support Indigenous Protected Areas. He was previously the co-founder and executive director of the Ancient Forest Alliance and the executive director of the Wilderness Committee’s Victoria bureau. So before we get into good news stories, what are some sad stories that you have seen? Here ancient forests with trees that are 2000 years old .. These are some of the oldest and biggest trees that have existed in earth’s history. These trees on Vancouver Island can be as much as 20 feet wide.. as wide as a living room and as tall as a downtown sky scraper. But for all those that we have saved, we have lost 3x as many. This is because there is so much value in these trees. Western red cedar in these days is particularly valuable for cladding houses on the outside and for decks.That is the green gold right now – propping up the old logging industry. The have already logged 99% of the Douglas Fir. There is only 1% of the old growth Douglas Fir left. The Sitka Spruce is less than 10% now. Cedar is probably around 15-20% of the old growth. So we are getting to end of the old growth forest. But there is some progress too.So as much as we have lost a lot, I think it is important for people to stay engaged and keep pushing. There has been big progress last week…Please tell us about that.Finally the British Columbia government announced deferrals or moratorium on 9 major areas of old growth forest in BC. They started up a process to develop new policies to manage BC’s old growth forests. This was decades of pushing by citizens. But we are not there yet, we have to keep expanding awareness of these ecosystems.The 9 deferral areas include Clayoquot Sound. I think a lot of your listeners at one time have been to Tofino, Ucluelet area of Vancouver Island…so just around Tofino is that spectacular set of islands and valleys …that is now on a moratorium for logging. It is the biggest track of coastal old growth temperate rain forest on Vancouver Island. So some good things are happening.Those huge trees draw in so much carbon.Yes even more than the tropical rain forest trees. Because all of the nutrients get sucked up so quickly in the tropics, but in the temperate rain forests of British Columbia, Oregon, and California, there is a lot of carbon locked in the wood that is on the forest floor, in the soil, and in the trees. The trees in these temperate forests live longer and get bigger. So that combination means that there is substantially more carbon in Canada’s old growth temperate rain forests than even in the Amazon or in central Africa.That is one of the best things we can do to avert the climate crisis is to protect not just tropical forests but temperate rain forests and all types of forests.See transcription at Treesmendus.com

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The leaders of BC's two largest political parties were in Campbell River over the week-end. Andrew Wilson criticizes NDP forestry Standing on a flat-deck truck in the Discovery plaza, Saturday, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson criticized the NDP's failure to address the forestry crisis. “Last year and earlier this year, we had an eight month strike at Western. Most of you felt that – hard. If you were in Port McNeill: you watched coffee shops shut down permanently; you watched people's trucks get towed away; you watched people lose their homes,” said Wilkinson. “And what did the NDP do for that eight months?” “They did nothing – because they couldn't be bothered to pay attention to these communities. They couldn't be bothered to come out to the meetings.” “And how many of you were at that meeting with [former MLA] Claire Trevana that made it onto Youtube? We were talking about that on the way down here. It was an embarrassment. When the elected MLA for North Island, where the beating heart if this economy is coastal forestry, can say nothing more than ‘Yes I hear you, I will go and ask my boss in Victoria.” “And did she do anything in Victoria? – nothing happened.” “So you folks, rightfully, got a little fed up. You took your trucks down to Victoria, on February 18th of this year, and said ‘enough is enough.' You circled the legislature. You showed them that you are proud of what you do. You showed them the investment you make in these massive machines, to do the work you do.” “What happened?” “Claire Trevana wouldn't come out to see you. The Minister of Forests wouldn't come out to see you. They were having a cabinet meeting in that building to the west of where you were parked. And they sat there and looked out the window because they were too embarrassed to come out and saw hello.” “That's just plain wrong. Does anybody here with a horn in their truck agree that's just plain wrong?” prompted Wilkinson. NDP Forestry The NDP responded with a press release, in which they pointed out that the number of jobs in the forestry sector dropped 40% when the Liberals were in power, and 45% less logs were processed. In their 2020 election platform, the BC NDP have promised to work with First Nations governments, labour, industry, and environmental groups to “implement recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review” to protect old-growth forests. The Ancient Forest Alliance pointed out that Premier Horgan did not promise to implement all of the panel's recommendations and he may choose to “implement only those recommendations that have the least impact on the logging industry's short-term economic interests.” Salmon Farms One of the unknowns in this riding, is what effect will having a relatively high profile candidate like Alexandra Morton do for the Green party? So perhaps it is not surprising that when John Horgan spoke at the Campbell River Museum Sunday morning, he had a lot to say about wild salmon and fish farms. Horgan said BC is currently partnered with the federal government on the $143 million BC Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund, which he promises a re-elected BC NDP government would work to double. As for salmon farms, “The vast majority of responsibility is with Ottawa. British Columbia issues the licenses for tenures, which is basically the land under the sea that the fish farms are attached to. So our responsibility in this area is limited, but we can in fact pull tenures. so [in 2017] we sat down with industry, indigenous leaders in the Broughton Archipelago, as well as communities, and we've now closed, I think, a dozen farms in the migratory route of the salmon through the Broughton,” said Horgan. He added, “We've made a commitment that if the industry does not have buy-in from indigenous populations as well as communities by 2022, we'll start to phase out those farms as well.”

The provincial NDP government was elected in 2017 with a platform that called for a re-think of BC’s logging of old growth forests. Now, more than two years after the election, the government is continuing to allow old growth logging while promoting a public consultation process that has no timeline and no guaranteed action. We speak with Andrea Inness of the Ancient Forest Alliance.

The provincial NDP government was elected in 2017 with a platform that called for a re-think of BC’s logging of old growth forests. Now, more than two years after the election, the government is continuing to allow old growth logging while promoting a public consultation process that has no timeline and no guaranteed action. We speak with Andrea Inness of the Ancient Forest Alliance.

On the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, near Juan de Fuca Park, 109 hectares of old-growth forest is about to be auctioned off to logging companies. While logging is not permitted inside the provincial park, the forest surrounding it provides a valuable buffer which protects the park’s outstanding ecological value. TJ Watt of the Ancient Forest Alliance says we have until May 10 to send comments to the BC government.

On the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, near Juan de Fuca Park, 109 hectares of old-growth forest is about to be auctioned off to logging companies. While logging is not permitted inside the provincial park, the forest surrounding it provides a valuable buffer which protects the park’s outstanding ecological value. TJ Watt of the Ancient Forest Alliance says we have until May 10 to send comments to the BC government.

When humans cut down forests, what disappears along with them? The ancient rainforests of Canada’s Pacific coast feature incredible biodiversity and some of the tallest and oldest trees in Canada, perhaps the world. In this episode author Harley Rustad tells the story of a tree that’s probably over 1000 years old (and miraculously still standing). We speak with Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance, a BC organization working to protect these forests. And we’re also joined by Tla-o-qui-at carver and activist Joe Martin who shares what these trees mean to him and his peoples. Together, these guests transport us into these majestic woodlands—hiking boots optional. For more information: Ancient Forest Alliance: www.ancientforestalliance.org Harley Rustad and his new book Big Lonely Doug : www.harleyrustad.com Joe Martin: http://www.tofinotime.com/artists/R-JMfrm.htm This episode was produced by Nadia Abraham, Shiralee Hudson Hill and Matthew Scott at the Art Gallery of Ontario. For more information on the podcast and the Anthropocene exhibition, visit our website: www.ago.ca

When humans cut down forests, what disappears along with them? The ancient rainforests of Canada’s Pacific coast feature incredible biodiversity and some of the tallest and oldest trees in Canada, perhaps the world. In this episode author Harley Rustad tells the story of a tree that’s probably over 1000 years old (and miraculously still standing). We speak with Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance, a BC organization working to protect these forests. And we’re also joined by Tla-o-qui-at carver and activist Joe Martin who shares what these trees mean to him and his peoples. Together, these guests transport us into these majestic woodlands—hiking boots optional. For more information: Ancient Forest Alliance: www.ancientforestalliance.org. Harley Rustad and his new book Big Lonely Doug : www.harleyrustad.com. Joe Martin: http://www.tofinotime.com/artists/R-JMfrm.htm. This episode was produced by Nadia Abraham, Shiralee Hudson Hill and Matthew Scott at the Art Gallery of Ontario. For more information on the podcast and the Anthropocene exhibition, visit our website: www.ago.ca.

When humans cut down forests, what disappears along with them? The ancient rainforests of Canada's Pacific coast feature incredible biodiversity and some of the tallest and oldest trees in Canada, perhaps the world. In this episode author Harley Rustad tells the story of a tree that's probably over 1000 years old (and miraculously still standing). We speak with Ken Wu of the Ancient Forest Alliance, a BC organization working to protect these forests. And we're also joined by Tla-o-qui-at carver and activist Joe Martin who shares what these trees mean to him and his peoples. Together, these guests transport us into these majestic woodlands—hiking boots optional. For more information: Ancient Forest Alliance: www.ancientforestalliance.org Harley Rustad and his new book Big Lonely Doug : www.harleyrustad.com Joe Martin: http://www.tofinotime.com/artists/R-JMfrm.htm This episode was produced by Nadia Abraham, Shiralee Hudson Hill and Matthew Scott at the Art Gallery of Ontario. For more information on the podcast and the Anthropocene exhibition, visit our website: www.ago.ca

We speak with former provincial New Democrat cabinet minister Corky Evans about the ideas that should be discussed during his party's upcoming leadership race. Dogwood Initiative executive director Will Horter and Ancient Forest Alliance director Ken Wu discuss how to keep environmental issues at the top of the agenda amidst British Columbia's present political upheaval. And our rabble-rousing panel - Don Anderson, Sheila Orr, Troy Sebastian and Allan Warnke - debate the week that was in provincial and federal politics.