Ancient Forest Alliance
The Ancient Forest Alliance (AFA) is a registered non-profit organization working to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
The Ancient Forest Alliance:
Defends the intrinsic value of all ecosystems and species, including humanity, to flourish for their own sake within the context of ecological harmony.
Supports First Nations cultures, rights and title to the land.
Supports environmental policies that also entail practical economic solutions and substantial support for the thousands of forestry workers in BC.
The AFA is calling on the BC government to:
Implement a science-based plan to protect the endangered old-growth forests in the province.
Ensure the sustainable logging of second-growth forests, which now constitute the majority of forest lands in southern BC.
Support First Nations land use planning and sustainable economic development and diversification in lieu of old-growth logging.
End the export of BC raw logs to foreign mills in order to ensure a guaranteed log supply for BC mills and value-added processing facilities.
Implement incentives for the retooling and development of BC mills and value-added facilities to handle second-growth logs.
Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance
Quoted from Ancient Forest Alliance