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A rare species of lichen recently discovered around Fairy Creek could hold keys to stopping old-growth logging in the area — and show us how nature creates wet zones that halt wildfires.

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the Alberta Wilderness Association said Thursday that government maps show West Fraser Timber has been directed to clear-cut blocks that contain century-old trees next to a park in northwest Alberta. 

Rainbow Eyes, as Angela Davidson has come to be known at the Fairy Creek protest camp, says it is her calling to protect B.C.'s old-growth forests.

Rapidly switching from burning coal and biomass to renewable energy sources is vital if Nova Scotia is to take any meaningful action on climate change, says the Sierra Club’s Atlantic chapter. 

The atmosphere doesn’t discern between carbon emitted from forests and carbon from fossil fuels — but Canada does, writes Jennifer Skene of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

We are losing one of our best allies in the climate fight, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage.

British Columbia has approved the request of three First Nations that want old-growth logging deferred for two years in part of their territories, including at the site of ongoing protests and arrests.

The BC NDP's approach to protecting old-growth forests is unsettlingly reminiscent of the failed approaches to the management of past provincial governments, write Shauna Doll and Chris Genovali of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.

Chiefs from three First Nations in B.C. announced a historic declaration of sovereignty in their territories and old-growth logging deferrals in the Fairy Creek and Walbran watersheds Monday.

While a pitched battle is underway to save old-growth trees on the West Coast, a B.C.-based non-profit is conscripting a contingent of luxury brands that are pledging to eliminate packaging made from the world’s ancient and endangered forests.

Credible sightings of the threatened owl species have prompted government biologists and industry-hired wildlife professionals to survey the Fairy Creek area for nests.

A photo of a massive Sitka spruce on a logging truck went viral this week. Despite the B.C. Ministry of Forest's comments, Sierra Club BC says the giant tree is still not safe under B.C.'s new big tree protections.

RCMP are wrong to silence media coverage of the Fairy Creek blockades trying to protect B.C.'s old-growth trees from logging, writes freelance writer and climate justice organizer Maia Wikler.

An environmental coalition is calling on B.C. government to take advantage of available federal funding to protect old-growth forests, support forestry communities and end its current war in the woods.

Green Party MP Paul Manly is calling on the federal government to protect threatened western screech owls spotted in the Caycuse Valley area, where RCMP have arrested old-growth activists at the Fairy Creek blockades this week.