Wilderness Committee

06/25/2026

We are BUZZING with excitement for pollinator week 🐛🦋🐝 here are our favourite pollinator facts:

🍓One out of every three bites of food we eat exists because of pollinators

🍓Bees pollinate almost 75 per cent of the vegetables, nuts and fruit grown in North America

🍓Insects are not the only pollinators in the wild — creatures like birds and bats play important pollinator roles in various ecosystems

If you enjoy apples, flaxseed, peaches, strawberries, carrots, pepper, avocado and almonds, thank a pollinator!

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06/25/2026

🚨 TAKE ACTION - tell the B.C. government to restore public access to Walbran and Carmanah 🌲

Write to the district manager responsible for the area, local MLA Josie Osborne & Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar to tell them to reopen access to these globally significant old-growth forests.

Send your letter today 👇

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06/24/2026

📍Naa’waya’sum Botanical Gardens (Tla-o-qui-aht territory)

We had a fun week in Tla-o-qui-aht territory working with the staff at Naa’waya’sum Botanical Gardens, run by our friends at Tla-o-qui-aht, to maintain their old-growth forest trail near the Tofino mudflats.

We’ve been working with Tla-o-qui-aht for decades, and are always grateful for the opportunity to help support responsible tourism in the incredible rainforests of Clayoquot Sound.

06/23/2026

🚨BREAKING 🚨 The B.C. government is currently restricting public access to the Carmanah Valley and Walbran Valley, the two largest intact old-growth forests on southern Vancouver Island.

Logging companies blocked the entrance to the Walbran with a gate and failed to clear a 2025 landside preventing access into Carmanah, cutting off the only two routes into the area.

“Old-growth forests, especially low-elevation, big-tree rainforests, are incredibly rare and remote in the province,” said Wilderness Committee Associate Director Torrance Coste.

“Blocking access to these places damages the relationship people have to the landscape and reduces understanding about what’s happening in the woods, which only benefits logging companies who don’t want people to know what is being lost.”

Provincial government allows logging companies to cut off Walbran and Carmanah Valley accessVICTORIA/UNCEDED lək̓ʷəŋən TERRITORIES — The B.C. government is currently restricting public access to the Carmanah Valley and Walbran Valley, the two largest intact old-growth forests on southern Van...

06/20/2026

National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21) is an opportunity to celebrate First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples and their many vibrant cultures.

This weekend, we’re highlighting Cree advocate, author, artist and curator Clayton Thomas-Müller, who is from Pukatawagan Cree Nation, and was born and raised in Winnipeg. He is currently working to keep oil and gas out of his home territory, while also supporting the Nations around Churchill (MB) to do the same.

Clayton recently curated a show in Winnipeg called Red Wash Stand – From Corporate Sponsorship to LANDBACK with fellow Indigenous artists Raul Gonzales, Jedrick Thorrassi and Ellen Gabriel. Together, the artists challenge this practice of corporate redwashing — when corporations rebrand themselves as “good neighbours” to Indigenous communities by sponsoring community programs.

Have a look at their work: storage.net-fs.com/hosting/7443548/5/

06/16/2026

Calls for donations!

Support the Ma'amtagila Nation's Hiladi Rematriation Project — a place of cultural resurgence, land stewardship and resistance to ongoing colonial industrial activity on stolen land.

By contributing, you are directly supporting Indigenous-led rematriation, cultural resurgence and the protection of land and water for generations to come.

Make your donation: gofundme.com/f/help-sustain-the-hiladi-rematriation-project/cl/o?attribution_id=sl:18e3e387-910d-4fc4-9f07-a000d41af00a&lang=en_GB&ts=1779743334&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp20_control&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

06/15/2026

"No amount of dollars will bring species back from extinction," - Lucero Gonzalez Ruiz, Conservation and Policy Campaigner.

In isolation, the federal government’s new nature strategy, A Force of Nature — released in March and backed by a $3.8-billion commitment to protect 30 per cent of lands and waters by 2030 — might appear like progress.

06/12/2026

Yup, you heard that right — our Forest Minister just said that caribou are "not smart" because they get "spooked" by logging, and that's what's driving their extinction.

Eight out of eighteen southern mountain caribou herds are gone, and Ravi Parmar's comment is extremely concerning regarding the future of the remaining ten herds.

We need to mobilize against extinction. Write a letter to Ravi Parmar today: WildernessCommittee.org/Caribou

06/11/2026

This is the state of a forest mapped by the federal government as critical spotted owl habitat.

Our fact-finding team just returned from Fire Lake, where we found a BC Timber Sales logging operation mowing down old-growth forests within this federally-mapped critical habitat. Some of the trees being felled are many hundreds of years old.

We urgently need you to write to government leaders and demand protection for these critical forests ➡️ https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/bc-must-stop-logging-spotted-owl-critical-habitat