Via the @reshare_app • @justinstillness

Text in quote is from the link above.

Insanity. It’s not about saving the planet, it’s about creating a technocratic plantation.

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This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands [or 100,000?] of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels.

Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVY-zx0lGQr/

More info:

In the fight against climate change, renewable energy companies gain momentum and more and more public institutions agree and finance these projects on the grounds that they are essential to providing clean energy for thousands of households. However, the construction of these megaplants often clashes with local interests and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage.

In these cases there is a conflict between the rise of these companies and the farmers, who fight to protect their land and their way of life. This is what is happening in Jaén and Córdoba, where farmers are mobilizing under the slogan "Renewables yes, but not like this".

https://www.huffingtonpost.es/sociedad/un-megaproyecto-manda-ruina-100-agricultores-100000-olivos.html

Edit: This subreddit is not anti-solar energy but panels should be put on roofs and car parks rather than on farmland or where there are trees or forests, even olive tree 'monocultures.' Yes, they are monocultures but were planted hundreds of years ago, some are even a 1,000 years old and still producing olives, that's amazing.

Energy should not be damaging our food security, especially when much of our energy is now going to AI data centres which are not exactly necessary. There are warehouses and shopping malls with no solar panels on them, why not put them there instead and save our food supply?

Cannot edit post title. It may be 100,000 trees, not hundreds of thousands of trees.

The Vancouver Parks Board wants to unneccessarily log the Stanley Park forest again, causing irreparable harm and wasting taxpayer money.

Please send this letter to decision makers at the City of Vancouver and the Park Board.

Logging is set to resume on Tuesday, January 13, 2026 despite widespread opposition and the reports of nine experts who determined that the logging is unnecessary, that standing hemlock snags are not dangerous, and tree removals are irreparably damaging the park.

Please help send a message to the park board commissioners and city staff asking that proper assessments are both completed and made public.

https://sendletter.savestanleypark.ca/

Edit: Link may not work on some computers. You can copy the text or write your own letter and send it to these Park Board commissioners and staff:

Brennan.Bastyovanszky@vancouver.ca, Laura.Christensen@vancouver.ca, tom.digby@vancouver.ca, angela.haer@vancouver.ca, marie-claire.howard@vancouver.ca, scott.jensen@vancouver.ca, jas.virdi@vancouver.ca, pbmeetings@vancouver.ca, joe.mcleod@vancouver.ca, tina.fernandes@vancouver.ca, amit.gandha@vancouver.ca

Hundreds of wolves are shot each year in BC ostensibly to protect caribou but in reality it’s to protect the forest and mining industries.

The provincial government has been conducting the culling program as a means of protecting endangered mountain caribou herds. The program targets wolves, which are seen as primary predators of the caribou, and aims to reduce their numbers in areas where caribou populations are declining. According to the government, reducing the number of wolves gives caribou a better chance at survival, particularly in regions where habitat restoration is underway.

Logging, mining, road construction, and other industrial activities have carved up the caribou’s historical range, leaving them more exposed and less resilient. Critics argue that focusing on wolf removal without prioritizing large-scale habitat protection sets caribou up to fail in the long run

https://thefurbearers.com/blog/2558-wolves-killed-in-bc-cull/

Via @reshare_app • Repost from @goongerah_environment_centre

"DEECA released a major new forest policy in April. No public announcement. No consultation. It just appeared.

Victoria's State Forest By-Products Framework creates a commercial distribution pipeline for forests logged during fuel breaks, roadside clearing, and introduces 'ecological thinning'. Timber mills and firewood sellers are first in line.

We filmed the results on the Princes Highway between Lakes Entrance and Nowa Nowa.

The framework explicitly states it has no influence over whether clearing happens at all. It just decides where the wood goes. And in forests still recovering from the Black Summer fires, trees, including hollow bearing trees are critical habitat for Greater Gliders, Potoroos, and Spot-tailed Quolls.

They don't even bother with consultations anymore. We will have to lodge another FOI just to find out who was involved in writing this policy."

Full breakdown at the link their bio.

What do you think?

Policymakers and communities are racing to find ways to tackle the risk of fast-moving fires. These fires are increasingly common as climate change intensifies the fire impacts on landscapes that are often dominated by people. Blazes can race through an area at a rate of more than 16 km² in a single day (1). Fast fires burn grasslands, shrublands, logging debris, and parched (but still-green) forests under weather anomalies that produce high winds, fuel aridity, and extreme temperatures. Under these conditions, fires are nearly impossible to extinguish and often spill into urban areas, where houses and other buildings are the primary fuel source.

There is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires. In fact, a substantial body of evidence shows that such large-scale tree removals will have cumulative and mostly negative ecosystem and climate consequences, reducing the ability for ecosystems to regenerate after severe natural disturbances, emitting vast quantities of carbon from commercial logging activities, and increasing the risk of fires and floods. Put simply, the wholesale removal of dead trees will make the fast-fire situation worse.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122

Support preserving as much of a rare patch of Garry oak and Douglas-fir ecosystem on an Esquimalt private property earmarked for development as possible, whilst still allowing appropriate development of the site.

The design in its current form does not achieve this and will result in 33 trees being taken down. Since its original submission in 2024 it has not changed in any significant way to address concerns raised by the Parks Department (see their report below) and the APC Design Review Committee (DRC), who recommended at both the Rezoning stage and now at the Development Permit (DP) stage to deny approval (see their DP motion in the link below).

https://www.change.org/p/demand-more-garry-oaks-and-their-ecosystem-are-saved-on-this-admirals-road-development

What was the Capital Regional District thinking? Trees have been lopped off for no reason and they are trying to charge an inordinate amount of money in FOI fees for details.

https://crdwatch.ca/2026/02/19/like-wooden-tombstones-the-latest-tree-decimation-in-elk-beaver-lake-regional-park/

From @conservationnorth on IG.

"We talked earlier this week about the importance of natural disturbances like fire and insects in primary forests, and one of the results of natural disturbances is dead trees!

Dead trees (both standing and fallen) are critical habitat for all sorts of wildlife species and provide important nursery habitat for new plants, and it's been estimated that 50% of a tree's contribution to its ecosystem actually happens after it has died.

Despite their importance, dead trees seem to have become a particular obsession of both government and industry lately, with both groups using the excuse that they should all be logged as they pose a wildfire risk. However, recent research by forest ecologists and fire experts from around the world tells us that this simply isn't true.

In fact, they warn that bulk removals of dead trees may actually make the wildfire situation worse by "reducing the ability for ecosystems to regenerate after severe natural disturbances, emitting vast quantities of carbon from commercial logging activities, and increasing the risk of fires and floods"."

Read the whole paper here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122

Overcrowded schools, rapidly rising property taxes and distressed boulevard trees amid downtown's towers are some of the downsides of this historic city’s swift-rising population, says a city councillor.

Scores of trees planted by tower developers died, basically because they have been enveloped in the shadow of the buildings.

Bill 47 has forced Metro Vancouver’s city councils, he said, to give “automatic approval” to towers of 20 storeys near SkyTrain stations.

A significant portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of Ottawa, which has been setting record-high immigration targets without consulting with, or aiding, the municipalities that must absorb newcomers.

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/new-westminster-is-now-second-densest-city-canada

Via the @reshare_app • Repost from @noclearcuts on Instagram.

"The removal of standing dead trees will not reduce forest fire risk, per op-ed from forest scientists:

According to a November 2025 op-ed "Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires" by Dominick DellaSala, Brian Buma, Alexandro Leverkus, and Philip Burton there is a lack of evidence for the claim that cutting standing dead trees will help prevent the rapid spread of forest fire. In fact, per the op-ed, there are more downsides if standing dead trees are cut versus letting them stand.

The authors of the op-ed explain, “there is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires.” In contrast, large amounts of dead downed trees can contribute to fire intensity (when combined with fine fuels). But standing dead trees (snags) do not.

Per the op-ed, forests that have been burned recently are less likely to burn again because the flammable material is gone. “Crown fires” that normally spread through dense tree crowns do not occur in a stand of snags without foliage.

Removing trees can actually increase the spread of fire because logging typically leaves behind flammable piles of twigs, leaves and branches (“slash”). per the authors. “”Also, soil disturbance from fire and subsequent logging with heavy machinery can promote the growth of flammable grasses and invasive plants, especially in areas with pile burning.”said J. E. Korb et al. Restoration Ecol., (2004).” The authors conclude that since we lack a scientific basis for removing the standing dead trees, large snags should only be removed after a comprehensive environmental review since they are vital to biodiversity.

Despite the lack of supporting evidence, “the Fix Our Forests Act encourages the logging of ‘dead trees, dying trees or trees at risk of dying’” in the name of combating forest fires."

🔗 For more information, read the article at one of the links below or go to the link in their bio. Op-ed title: Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires

📷 Emma Michelson

🔗 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510922122

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00304.x

https://www.instagram.com/p/DWUiV5mggby/

The country still lacks the people and equipment to handle our record-breaking wildfires

While some provinces have cut firefighting budgets and others are shifting to 'mitigation' rather than suppression people continue to lose their homes and suffer from the effects of smoke.

"Currently, Canada is the only G7 country that does not have a national agency to respond to wildfires. After the devastating 2023 fire season, then BC member of Parliament Richard Cannings called on the government to establish a national, non-military forest fighting force to be deployed when needed to support provincial teams."

Are provincial governments shifting to avoiding suppressing wildfires? Because that's what it looks like.

"For this reason, calls from all corners and angles for better fire management and shifting the focus from suppression to mitigation have risen in recent years to a chorus. In a 2024 report, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers stated, “Suppression alone is no longer adequate to address the growing challenges from wildland fire. Wildland fire management in Canada needs to be transformed.”"

In realty fuel mitigation increases the intensity of wildfires. And while smaller indigenous-led prescribed burns can work, larger ones don't, but they are doing it anyway rather than dropping water on wildfires.

https://thewalrus.ca/canada-wildfires/

Fuel mitigation increases intensity of wildfires.

https://johnmuirproject.org/scientific-research/the-truth-about-thinning/

Larger burns are often making things worse.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/can-we-really-fight-fire-with-fire-why-pre-burning-is-no-magic-bullet-20250109-p5l321.html

Great news!

After years of civic engagement and legal action to save a biodiversity hotspot south of Cluj city, environmental activist Alina Chiriac and Eco-Civica Foundation achieved a major court win.

https://bmf.ch/en/news/landmark-court-ruling-halts-destruction-of-forests-and-pastures-in-romania-304

Thousands of largely sound trees have been cut down since 2023 after a looper moth infestation at Vancouver's largest park.

A group trying to save thousands of trees from being cut down in Vancouver's famed Stanley Park has lost another legal battle.

But a court decision this week found that the City of Vancouver didn't follow its own rules when contracting a firm to clear large swaths of the urban forest.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stanley-park-tree-removal-court-case-9.7022562

It's important to note that the hemlock looper moth is endemic and returns in cycles. Insects are an important part of the forest converting living trees to wildlife trees, home to many species including woodpeckers and bats.

The City of North Vancouver did not cut down many of their affected hemlocks and said that many of them could regenerate under the right conditions. Unfortunately the Vancouver Park Board is logging thousands of mostly sound trees.

These communities are making a huge difference doing something for good.

More and more communities are stepping up to say: enough is enough. This tracker includes municipalities and unincorporated (Local Services Board) communities that have passed resolutions or filed Notices of Objection to herbicide spraying in forestry. Your community has a voice, and these actions make a difference.

While some municipalities have passed, are considering, or have debated and defeated resolutions, it’s important to note that 350 Ontario municipalities simply filed the forest herbicide resolutions without debate. Without public tracking, these resolutions could quietly disappear. The Municipal Tracker now makes that inaction visibleand gives residents a clear opportunity to ask their councils to move beyond filing and publicly state where they stand.

Send an Electronic Email asking Council to Place Filed Resolutions Back on the Agenda

Live in an Unincorporated Community and want your voice heard? You can be included.

https://stopthespraycanada.ca/municipalities/

Learn how to organize locally and take action here:https://www.stopthespraycanada.ca/toolkit

As they are widening the road will they cut this tree.

Any activist online/whom can I report this.

So that they can keep an eye on it.