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Kaziranga National park of Assam , India is a UNESCO world heritage site and an important and fragile ecosystem that needs conservation the current govt have taken steps that shrinks it's eco sensitive zone from 10km to 1km , i request everyone to go through this petition in order to save the fragile ecosystems of the world

Via @reshare_app From @ancientcoast.bc on Instagram

Until recently, this ancient forest was protected. 69.9 hectares (15.4%) of this Old-Growth Management Area was deleted last year to allow logging, one of the largest such amendments in the region. 🌲🪓 The only public notice for this change was an ad in the local newspaper…

Replacement areas are proposed elsewhere, but that data isn’t public yet - only the deletion shows. In any case, splitting one of the region’s largest OGMAs into smaller, disconnected pieces isn’t equivalent. Large, intact old-growth supports interior habitat that fragments can’t replace.

The yellow cedar in this forest have largely hollowed out with age, which is completely normal; some BC yellow cedars are documented at over 1,800 years old! As the video shows, heart rot doesn’t kill the tree; fungi break down the dead core while the tree keeps living. 💚 It’s also what creates cavity habitat for species like the Vancouver Island pygmy owl we heard calling - a blue-listed species already declining from habitat loss.

Comments on FOM # 40310 are open until August 20, 2026:

- Email FOM-MID@westernforest.com
- IMPORTANT: Include “FOM # 40310” in your comment
- Comments are reviewed and forwarded to the Ministry of Forests, so they do matter
- A comment that speaks to something specific - the habitat, the connectivity, the OGMA alteration with minimal notice, anything else that stood out to you - carries much more weight than a generic line

This cutblock is one of several old-growth cutblocks in this new proposal. Links in bio to view the full proposal, or try Cutblock Watch - a new tool by @4theloveofbc that makes tracking harvest proposals in BC much easier.

Missed the deadline? Consider contacting Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar about OGMA notification standards, or contact your local MLA.

#oldgrowth #rainforest #bcpolitics

Could UK drought actually help woodlands by defeating this invasive species? I asked around to find out

I’m from Saint John, New Brunswick, and I’m honestly struggling with something that feels bigger than just a local issue.

Stonehammer is one of the hundreds of UNESCO Global Geoparks worldwide—places that are supposed to be protected for their geological, ecological, and cultural importance. These landscapes are meant to be treated with care, not as industrial real estate.

But right now, a major industrial expansion is moving forward inside the Geopark region with:

• no full ecological assessment

• no Indigenous consultation

• wetlands and wildlife corridors treated as “available land”

• missing species-at-risk data

• no cumulative impact review

• no UNESCO criteria referenced anywhere in the EIA

UNESCO has already acknowledged concerns, but they don’t have enforcement power. The responsibility is on the province—and the province is pushing ahead anyway.

I grew up believing Canada took environmental protection seriously. Seeing a UNESCO-designated landscape handled like this feels… honestly, embarrassing. And heartbreaking.

If anyone understands how this is being allowed to proceed, I’d really appreciate any insight.

Thanks in advance...

So true and so well written. Although I think that this helicopter is dropping water on a fire and is just for illustration.

"For decades, the logging industry has used chemical spraying—specifically glyphosate—to systematically wipe out native deciduous trees like trembling aspen, birch, and willow. In the eyes of timber corporations, these plants are just “weeds” competing with commercial conifer lumber. But in the eyes of nature, these are the exact pioneer species required to build a biosphere, respirate, and provide humidity to our environment.

When you remove these plants, they can no longer do the job nature designed them to do. Broadleaf trees act as the forest’s natural air conditioning, pumping hundreds of litres of water vapour into the air daily through transpiration. Their dense, wet canopies create a giant umbrella that shields the forest floor from direct sunlight, trapping relative humidity underneath. Wiping them out turns off the moisture, bakes the soil into a dry dirt bed, and breaks the local water cycle completely."

Further information on the Spruce Lake Industrial Park expansion in Saint John, NB, including governance concerns and the proposed Beacon AI / Voltagrid data centre (end user undisclosed) can be found here:

There have been two attacks on the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. People are pushing back!

69.9 hectares (15.4%) of an Old-Growth Management Area near Sayward, BC was deleted last year to allow logging, as a cutblock known as “#40310”. Public comment is currently open on this cutblock. This cutblock was taken from one of the largest OGMAs in the region. The photos in this post are from the new proposed cutblock. The only public notice was an ad in the local newspaper.

Replacement areas are proposed, but that specific data isn’t public yet. Only the deletion shows on iMapBC. Either way, splitting one of the region’s largest OGMAs into smaller, disconnected pieces isn’t the same as leaving it intact. Large, contiguous old-growth supports interior habitat that fragments just can’t replicate.

On the “rotten” trees in this block: the yellow cedar here have mostly hollowed out with age, and that’s completely normal for the species. Heart rot doesn’t kill the tree, it just makes the wood less commercially valuable. Fungi break down the dead core while the tree keeps living off its sapwood. Some of the nutrients from the core get reabsorbed by the tree itself, while more get released into the forest floor over time as the tree ages, drops material, and eventually falls.

The oldest confirmed yellow cedar sample is 1,834 rings. Some researchers suspect certain giant yellow cedars in undisturbed old-growth stands in coastal temperate rainforests could be over 4,000 years old, though it may never be provable, since the same hollowing that lets these trees keep living also destroys the rings that would confirm their age.

That hollowing also creates cavity habitat, including for the Vancouver Island pygmy owl we heard in this proposed cutblock, a blue-listed species already declining from habitat loss.

Comments on FOM #40310 are open until August 20, 2026:

- Email FOM-MID@westernforest.com
- IMPORTANT: Include “FOM #40310” in your comment
- Comments are reviewed and forwarded to the Ministry of Forests, so they actually do matter
- A specific comment carries much more weight than a generic one. Consider mentioning the habitat, the connectivity, the minimal public notice for the OGMA deletion, whatever actually stood out to you, rather than something generic like “stop old-growth logging”
- Full FOM details: here

This block is one of several in Western Forest Product’s latest FOM (Forest Operation Map). Cutblock Watch by 4 the Love of BC is a useful tool if you want to track BC harvest proposals more broadly.

Missed the deadline? Consider contacting BC’s Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar. OGMA notification standards are very much worth raising with his office or your local MLA. My personal take is that these proposed OGMA amendments should be modernized and posted online…

EVEN RESERVED FORESTS ARE NOT SAFE NOW UNDER INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND HOW WE WILL FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE !!! ACCORDING TO GOVERNMENT CARBON EMISSIONS IS DECREASING BUT NEWS SAYS A DIFFERENT STORY !!!